Highly competitive at national or international level = 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).
Award COIT - BANESTO to the Best PhD Thesis on Information and Communication Technologies applied to Banking, to Marcos Martinez-Diaz (Advised PhD) (May 2016).
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).
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).
Award COIT - ISDEFE to the Best Masters Thesis on Security and Defense, to Maria Puertas (Advised MSc) (May 2011).
IBM Best Student Paper Award, at ICPR 2008, to Javier Galbally, Raffaele Cappelli, Alessandra Lumini, Davide Maltoni and Julian Fierrez (December 2008).
Honorable Mention in the Best Student Paper Award, at BTAS 2007, to Marcos Martinez-Diaz, Julian Fierrez and Javier Ortega-Garcia (September 2007).
Award COIT - BOSCH Security Systems to the Best Masters Thesis on Security Systems and Surveillance on Telecommunication Networks, to Marcos Martinez-Diaz (Advised PhD) (May 2007).