World-class extremely competitive = Other competitive awards =
Best Session Paper Award at IEEE IPAS 2020 (Session on Image Processing for Biological Applications and Biometrics), to Giuglia Orru, Marco Micheletto, Julian Fierrez and Gian Luca Marcialis (December 2020).
IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award, given to a single researcher worldwide every two years under the age of 40, whose research work has had a major impact in biometrics, to Julian Fierrez (October 2017).
"For his scientific and applied research in handwriting biometrics, his contributions to information fusion, and his work in biometrics evaluation and security."
Winner (Overall) of the 2nd Cross-Spectral Iris/Periocular Competition (Cross-Eyed 2017), at (IJCB 2017) (October 2017). [Paper]
Winner (Overall) of the 1st Cross-Spectral Iris/Periocular Competition (Cross-Eyed 2016), at (BTAS 2016) (September 2016). [Paper]
Finalist in the Best Paper Award of the Intl. Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF, to Marta Gomez-Barrero, Javier Galbally and Julian Fierrez (March 2016).
Miguel Catalan Research Award to the Best Researcher under 40 years old from Comunidad de Madrid (general area of Science and Technology), to Julian Fierrez (February 2016). [UAM Press Release]
Medal to Young Researchers from the Spanish Academy of Engineers, to Julian Fierrez (September 2015). [Spanish Press Release] "For his continued trajectory dedicated to biometrics and image processing, and his contributions to multimodal person recognition, forensics and security."
Finalist in the Best Paper Award of the Intl. Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF, to Ram P. Krish, Julian Fierrez, Daniel Ramos, Javier Ortega-Garcia and Josef Bigun (March 2014).
Top 2 (Overall) of the Signature Verification Competition (4NSIGCOMP 2010), at ICFHR 2010 (November 2010).
Top 2 (Overall) and Winner (Task Combined) of the Signature Verification Competition (SIGCOMP 2009), at ICDAR 2009 (July 2009).
Winner (Overall) of the Biosecure Signature Evaluation Campaign (BSEC 2009) (July 2009).
IBM Best Student Paper Award, at ICPR 2008, to Javier Galbally, Raffaele Cappelli, Alessandra Lumini, Davide Maltoni and Julian Fierrez (December 2008).
Finalist in the Best Articles in Speech Technologies Awards, from the Spanish Thematic Network of Speech Technologies, to Daniel Ramos, Julian Fierrez, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Javier Ortega-Garcia (October 2007).
Honorable Mention in the Best Student Paper Award, at BTAS 2007, to Marcos Martinez-Diaz, Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia (September 2007).
Top 3 (Overall) and Winner (Missing data > 15%) of the BioSecure Multimodal Evaluation Campaign [BMEC 2007] (July 2007).
Award AERFAI to the Best PhD Thesis on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision in 2005-2007, to Julian Fierrez (June 2007).