| Year | Name | Award | Contribution | Location |
| 2009 | Maja Temerinac-Ott | Google 2009 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship | Encouragement for women to pursue careers in computer science and technology | Google Zürich |
| 2009 | Marco Reisert | Nominierung für den Dissertationspreis 2009 der Gesellschaft für Informatik | Dissertation: "Group Integration Techniques in Pattern Analysis - A Kernel View" | Computer Science Faculty, University of Freiburg |
| 2008 | Robert Bensch | LBBW-Immobilien-Förderpreis 2008 | Master Thesis: "Quantitative Analyse der Musterbildungsprozesse von Trichomen in 4D Volumendaten" | Computer Science Faculty, University of Freiburg |
| 2008 | Kersten Petersen, Janis Fehr, Hans Burkhardt | DAGM Award | Fast Generalized Belief Propagation for MAP Estimation on 2D and 3D Grid-like Markov Random Fields | DAGM 2008, Munich, Germany |
| 2008 | Christoph Keller, Christoph Sprunk | Best Student Paper Award | US speed sign recognition | IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV08), Eindhoven, Niederlande |
| 2008 | Olaf Ronneberger | Nominierung für den Dissertationspreis 2008 der Gesellschaft für Informatik | Dissertation: "3D invariants for automated pollen recognition" | Computer Science Faculty, University of Freiburg |
| 2006 | Bernard Haasdonk | Admittance to the "Eliteprogramm für Postdoktorandinnen und Postdoktoranden" | "Modellreduktion zur Simulation von Transportprozessen und Anwendungen in Brennstoffzellen" | Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg gGmbH |
| 2006 | Janina Schulz, Thorsten Schmidt, Olaf Ronneberger, Hans Burkhardt, Taras Pasternak, Alexander Dovzhenko, Klaus Palme | DAGM Award | Fast scalar and vectorial grayscale based invariant features for 3d cell nuclei localization and classification " | DAGM 2006, Berlin, Germany |
| 2006 | Marco Reisert, Olaf Ronneberger, Hans Burkhardt | MUSCLE CIS Coin Recognition Competition 2006 | Coin Recognition | DAGM 2006, Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | Claus Bahlmann | Wolfgang-Gentner-Preis of the University of Freiburg | Dissertation: "Advanced Sequence Classification Techniques applied to Online Handwriting Recognition" | Computer Science Faculty, University of Freiburg |
| 2005 | Anselm Vossen | VDI-Förderpreis 2005 | Diploma Thesis: "Invariante Kernfunktionen Basierend auf Integration über Transformationen" | Computer Science Faculty, University of Freiburg |
| 2005 | Zhe-Ming Lu, Henrik Skibbe, Hans Burkhardt | One of 10 best papers in the Ninth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2005) | "Image Retrieval Based on a Multipurpose Watermarking Scheme" | Melbourne, Australia, |
| 2005 | Olaf Ronneberger, Janis Fehr, Hans Burkhardt | DAGM-Award | "Voxel-Wise Gray Scale Invariants for Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification" | Technical University, Vienna, Austria |
| 2003 | Sven Siggelkow | Nominierung für den Dissertationspreis 2003 der Gesellschaft für Informatik | Dissertation: "Feature Histograms for Content-Based Image Retrieval" | Computer Science Faculty, University of Freiburg |
| 2003 | Sven Siggelkow | Wolfgang-Gentner-Nachwuchsförderpreis of the University of Freiburg | Dissertation: "Feature Histograms for Content-Based Image Retrieval" | Computer Science Faculty, University of Freiburg |
| 2003 | Sven Siggelkow | DAGM-Olympus Award | "For his outstanding contributions to the area of content based image retrieval" | Magdeburg, Germany |
| 2003 | Dimitrios Katsoulas | Mention of Honour at the First Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2003) | "Robust extraction of vertices in range images by constraining the Hough transform" | Mallorca, Spain |
| 2002 | Claus Bahlmann, Bernard Haasdonk und Hans Burkhardt | Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR) 2002 | "On-line Handwriting Recognition with Support Vector Machines - A Kernel Approach" | Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada |
| 2001 | Sven Siggelkow, Marc Schael und Hans Burkhardt | DAGM-Award | "SIMBA-Search Images by Appearance" | Munich, Germany |
| 2000 | Nikolaos Canterakis | Best Paper Award at the 6. European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV 2000 | "A Minimal Set of Constraints for the Trifocal Tensor" | Dublin, Irland |
| 1999 | Sven Siggelkow, Marc Schael | DAGM-Award | "Fast estimation of invariant features" | Bonn, Germany |
| 1997 | Marc Schael | 2. Preis der Olympus Europa Stiftung Wissenschaft fürs Leben an der TUHH | Diploma Thesis: "Invariantenbasierte Objekterkennung aus dreidimensionalen Sensordaten" | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1997 | Irem Stratmann | 1. Preis der Olympus Europa Stiftung Wissenschaft fürs Leben an der TUHH | Diploma Thesis: " Automatische Auswertung von mikroskopischen Belebtschlammaufnahmen mittels digitaler Bildverarbeitung" | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1995 | Hanns Schulz-Mirbach | DAGM-Olympuspreis | "Invariant features for gray scale images" | Bielefeld, Germany |
| 1994 | Sven Utcke | 2. Preis der Olympus Europa Stiftung Wissenschaft fürs Leben an der TUHH | Diploma Thesis: "Transfer and Invariants of Surfaces of Revolution" | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1994 | An Luo | 1. Preis der Olympus Europa Stiftung Wissenschaft fürs Leben an der TUHH | Dissertation: "Helligkeitsbasiertes Rechnersehen zur direkten Ermittlung räumlicher Eigenschaften" | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1994 | Michael Nölle, Gerald Schreiber, Hanns Schulz-Mirbach | DAGM-Award | "PIPS - a general purpose Parallel Image Processing System" | Vienna, Austria |
| 1992 | Volker Strubenhoff | Preis der Metall- und Elektro-Industrie 1992 (Nordmetall) | Diploma Thesis: "Simulation allgemeiner Verbindungsstrukturen auf homogenen, universellen Verbindungsnetzwerken" | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1989 | Bernhard Lang | DAGM Main Award | "Ein paralleles Transputersystem zur digitalen Bildverarbeitung mit schneller Pipelinekopplung" | Hamburg, Germany |
| 1987 | Norbert Diehl | DAGM Award | "Schätzung dreidimensionaler Bewegungsparameter aus | Braunschweig, Germany |