First Place, Workshop of Theses and Dissertations (Ph.D. Category), Student: Jurandy Gomes de Almeida Júnior, "Content-based Retrieval of Compressed Videos", SIBGRAPI 2012 - 25th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images.

Second Place, Workshop of Theses and Dissertations (Ph.D. Category), Student: Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette, "Exploiting Contextual Information in Image Retrieval Tasks", SIBGRAPI 2012 - 25th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images.

Nominee, Ph.D. Category, Student: Jurandy Gomes de Almeida Júnior, "Recuperação de Vídeos Comprimidos por Conteúdo", XXV Thesis Competition, Brazilian Computer Society.

Best paper award, "Encoding spatial arrangement of visual words", 16th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2011).

Paraninfo, Formandos de Engenharia de Computação 2009 (Turma 2005).

Best master dissertation, Student: Jefersson Alex dos Santos, "Reconhecimento Semi-Automático e Vetorização de Regiões em Imagens de Sensoriamento Remoto" ("Semi-automatic recognition and vetorization of regions in remote sensing images" ), Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP).

Top 25 Hottest Articles (October to December 2008), A genetic programming framework for content-based image retrieval , Pattern Recognition, Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 283-292, Pattern Recognition.

Best master dissertation, Student: Javier Alexander Montoya-Zegarra, "Descrição de Texturas Invariante a Rotação e Escala para Identificação e Reconhecimento de Imagens" ("Rotation- and scale-invariant texture description for image identification and recognition" ), Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP).

José Mauro de Castilho (JMC) Award for the best paper of the XIII Brazilian Symposium on Databases,"Image Retrieval with Relevance Feedback based on Genetic Programming", Database Special Group, Brazilian Computer Society.

First place, master dissertation category, Student: Fernanda Alcântara Andaló, Workshop of Thesis and Dissertations, XXI SIBGRAPI.

Top 25 Hottest Articles (January to March 2007), Contour salience descriptors for effective image retrieval and analysis, Image and Vision Computing, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 3-13, Image and Vision Computing.

Third place, Student: Otávio Augusto Bizetto Penatti, "Descritor de relacionamento espacial baseado em partições" ("Spatial relationship descriptor based on partitions"), XXVI Workshop of Undergraduate Work Competition, Brazilian Computer Society.

Best undergraduate work, Student: Otávio Augusto Bizetto Penatti, "Descritor de relacionamento espacial baseado em partições" ("Spatial relationship descriptor based on partitions"), Institute of Computing, University of Campinas.

Scientific Merit, XIV Undergraduate work congress, Student: Roberto B. Marchesini, "Re-implementation of a content-based image retrieval component", University of Campinas (UNICAMP).

First place, Ph. D. Category, Thesis competition, Brazilian Computer Society.