Abstract. GREC’05 marked the 10th anniversary of the series of international workshops on graphics recognition, for which the first edition was held in Penn State in 1995. At the end of the workshop, a panel discussion was held to take a broader view of our field, to examine the shift in issues addressed by research teams, and define some challenges for the coming years. This paper tries to summarize the results of the panel discussion. 1 Traditional Issues, Emerging Themes and Failures