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ICPR 2026, Lyon, France (August 2026)

• Presenting our research paper “Is Visual Realism Enough? Evaluating Gait Biometric Fidelity in Generative AI Human Animation” at International Conference in Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2026).

IEEE CAIw 2026, Granada, Spain (May 2026)

• Presenting our research and technology at IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshops. We got two papers accepted: “Exploring Deep Learning and Ultra-Widefield Imaging for Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema”, “Longitudinal Digital Phenotyping for Early Cognitive-Motor Screening”.

IWBF 2026, Côte d’Azur, France (April 2026)

• Presenting our research paper “Exploring Vision-Language Models for Online Signature Verification: A Zero-Shot Capability Study” at IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF 2026).

PhD Thesis Defense, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain (February 2026)

• Sergio Romero-Tapiador defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Devices for Digital Healthcare” on February 20, 2026. Advisors: Ruben Tolosana and Aythami Morales.

Best Young Researchers Award (2024), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain (December 2025)

• Ruben Tolosana received the “Best Young Researchers Award (2024)” from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. This award recognises and makes visible the work of young researchers at the UAM for their contribution to scientific development, as well as their national and international visibility as a leading research center.

IEEE/IAPR IJCB 2025, Osaka, Japan (September 2025)

• Presenting our research and technology at IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics. We got three papers accepted in different topics: Fake ID Detection, Biometric Verification in Avatar Scenarios, and In-Air Signature Biometrics. We are also the winners of the Aerial-Ground Person Re-identification Challenge (AG-VPReID 2025). All the details of the AG-VPReID 2025 challenge are publicly available in the corresponding paper.

Keynote about Synthetic Data and Foundation Models, ICCIDA 2025, Spain (July 2025)

• Keynote of Ruben Tolosana in the topic of “Synthetic Data and Foundation Models: Challenges and Opportunities in Security Applications” at 4th International Conference on Computing, IoT and Data Analytics (ICCIDA 2025).

Best Paper Award at 2nd MetaFood Workshop, IEEE/CVF CVPR 2025, Nashville, USA (June 2025)

• Our paper “Are Vision-Language Models Ready for Dietary Assessment? Exploring the Next Frontier in AI-Powered Food Image Recognition” received the “Best Paper Award” at the 2nd MetaFood Workshop organized within IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, CVPR 2025.

Talk about Biometrics and Media Forensics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Spain (April 2025)

• Talk of Ruben Tolosana in the topic of “Advances in Biometric Recognition and Media Forensics in the Era of Synthetic Data and Foundation Models” at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC).

Juan López de Peñalver Award (2024), Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, Spain (February 2025)

• Ruben Tolosana received the “Juan López de Peñalver Award (2024)” from the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. This award is granted to researchers/engineers under the age of 40 who have made outstanding contributions in any professional field of Spanish engineering.