Dima Damen

News

Mar 2026: Three papers accepted at CVPR - added to publications and below

Jan 2026: Our IJCV journal extension for the paper: "It’s Just Another Day: Unique Video Captioning by Discriminitive Prompting" is now available online.

Nov 2025. Our paper PointSt3R is accepted at WACV.

Oct 2025: Two ICCV 2025 Keynotes (DataCV and Ego360 workshops) are available in talks section

Sep 2025: My PAISS 2025 tutorial on Video Understanding Out of the frame is available in talks section

July 2025: Congratulations to Adriano Fragomeni who passed his viva - thanks to external examiner Pascal Mettes (UoA) for time and effort.

Jan 2025: I will be giving keynotes at SCIA 2025 (June), ICVSS 2025 (July) and GCPR 2025 (Sep)

Dec 2024: Our paper "It's Just Another Day: Unique Video Captioning by Discriminative Prompting" was selected as Best Paper at ACCV 2024 in Hanoi, Vietnam

Nov 2024: Selected as Fellow @ELLIS for Europe

Nov 2024: Journal extended version of our ICASSP 2023 paper "EPIC-SOUNDS" is now available on ArXiv

Oct 2024: Our Survey paper "An Outlook into the Future of Egocentric Vision" appeared in Vol 132 at IJCV in its final format

Sep 2024: Our ECCV 2024 paper AMEGO is now on ArXiv. Check Website for paper, code and benchmark

Sep 2024: Online Open Access of our PAMI 2024 paper is now Online

May 2024: Online Open Access of our IJCV 2024 paper is now Online

Mar 2024: Two PhD positions opened in my group. Apply by 30 April 2024.

Feb 2024: 1st EgoVis (Joint) Workshop will be held @CVPR2024 - see call for nominations for distinguished papers in Egocentric Vision

Jan 2024: Applications for Summer of Research have now closed. Results are expected 20 Feb.

Nov 2023: Applications for Summer of Research @Bristol 2024 are now open [DL 19 Jan 2024]

Oct 2023: Our BMVC'23 paper "Learning Temporal Sentence Grounding From Narrated EgoVideos" now available on ArXiv

Sep 2023: EPIC Fields paper accepted at NeurIPS 2023

Aug 2023: Survey paper "An Outlook into the Future of Egocentric Vision" open for comments on OpenReview until 15 Sep. All major corrections/suggestions will be acknowledged in revised version.

Aug 2023: Our paper "Learning Temporal Sentence Grounding From Narrated EgoVideos" was accepted ab BMVC 2023. Preprint coming soon

July 2023: Our paper "What can a cook in Italy teach a Mechanic in India?" was accepted at ICCV 2023. Dataset and Code are public

June 2023: I'll be giving a keynote at WACV 2024 next Jan.

June 2023: Winners of the 2023 EPIC-KITCHENS challenges announced

[Closed for applications]May 2023: Open PhD position on Long-Term Video Understanding in collaboration with Adobe - for a start anytime between Sep 2023 and Feb 2024. Apply here asap, open until filled or end of June.

Mar 2023: Postdoc Opportunity (26 months) open in my group - Details and Application Process - DL 23 Apri 2023

Feb 2023: Two papers accepted at CVPR 2023

Feb 2023: Two papers accepted at ICASSP 2023: Play-It-Back and EPIC-SOUNDS

Feb 2023: On a research visit to UC Berkeley

Jan 2023: EPIC-SOUNDS dataset publicly available

Oct 2022: Our paper ConTra accepted as an oral at ACCV 2022

Sep 2022: VISOR and EgoClip papers accepted at NeurIPS 2022

Sep 2022: Up to 3 open PhD positions for 2022/2023 in my group [applications closed]

Aug 2022: Rleased VISOR Benchmark: Video Segmentations and Object Relations. Watch the Trailer

June 2022: ran the Joint 10th EPIC Workshop and 1st Ego4D workshop alongside CVPR 2022 in New Orleans

Mar 2022: Two papers accepted at CVPR 2022.

Feb 2022: Ego4D Dataset is now publicly available

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Dec 2021: New ArXiv Paper: UnweaveNet: Unweaving Activity Stories

Nov 2021: Our BMVC 2021 paper "With a little help from my temporal context" is now Available on ArXiv

Oct 2021: Ego4D Project and ArXiv paper now out. Reveal session during EPIC@CCV2021

Sep 2021: Our paper Rescaling Egocentric Vision accepted at IJCV

Aug 2021: Welcoming Alexandros Stergiou and Bin Zhu as postdocs to the group

July 2021: Technical report for 2021 EPIC-KITCHENS challengs is online

June 2021: Our paper Slow-Fast Auditory Streams won outstanding paper at ICASSP 2021 (3 out of 1700 papers awarded)

June 2021: EPSRC Program Grant Visual AI has a live website now

June 2021: Pleased to be outstanding reviewer for CVPR 2021

May 2021: During CVPR 2021, I'll be delivering keynotes during 2nd comprehensive tutorial on Video understanding, 8th workshop on FGVC and 2nd HVU workshop, in addition to co-organising 8th EPIC@CVPR2021

Mar 2021: CVPR 2021 paper "On Semantic Similarity in Video Retrieval" now on ArXiv

Mar 2021: CVPR 2021 paper "Temporal-Relational CrossTransformers for Few-Shot Action Recognition" now on ArXiv

Feb 2021: Will be delivering keynotes at two CVPR2021 workshops: Fine-grained visual categorisation (FGVC8) and Holistic Video Understanding (HVU)

Jan 2021: Slides for my talk at HAU@ICPR 2021 workshop can be found here

Nov 2020: Two papers presented at ACCV 2020: Play Fair: Frame Attributions in Video Models (Project) and
Meta-Learning with Context-Agnostic Initialisations (Project)

Nov 2020: Excited to start active work as Program Chair for ICCV 2021 in Montreal

Sep 2020: Glad to join the ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Society as a member

Sep 2020: Will be giving a keynote at the Deep Video Understanding workshop alongside ICMI 2020

Sep 2020: Will be giving a keynote at the HCMA workshop alongside ACM MM on 12 Oct

Aug 2020: Final program for our EPIC@ECCV Workshop is now available online

1 July 2020: EPIC-KTICHESN-100 Dataset Now Released - Download, webinar

June 2020: ArXiv Manuscript "Rescaling Egocentric Vision" is now online

June 2020: Will be happy to deliver keynotes in August at ECCV workshops: Women in Computer Vision and Compositional and Multimodal Video Perception Challenge

Jun 2020: Proud to be an Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR 2020.

Jun 2020: My talk on "Learning from Narrated Videos of Everyday Tasks" at the CVPR2020 workshop on Instructional Videos is now available online

Jun 2020: Deadline for the 7th EPIC@ECCV2020 Workshop is 10th of July - published proceedings included

Apr 2020: EPSRC Program Grant Visual AI approved for funding.

Mar 2020: I join the editorial board of IJCV as an associate editor.

Mar 2020: Our paper "Action Modifers: Learning from Adverbs in Instructional Videos", accepted at CVPR 2020 is now on ArXiv - watch the video that explains the method here

Mar 2020: Our paper "Multi-Modal Domain Adaptation for Fine-Grained Action Recognition", accepted for Oral at CVPR 2020 is now on Arxiv - see project details

Feb 2020: Two papers accepted in CVPR 2020 - available in Arxiv already (see publications)

Dec 2019: Jade-2 HPC Cluster has been accepted for funding

Dec 2019: My talk at NCVPRIPG2019 in Hubli India is available here

Dec 2019: I start EPSRC Early Career Fellowship UMPIRE this Jan. 5-Years Funding to expand my research activities in object interaction understanding.

Nov 2019: I join the editorial board of IEEE TPAMI as associate editor

Nov 2019: Congrats to Davide Moltisanti and Michael Wray for passing their PhD vivas

Oct 2019: My talk from the Extreme Vision ICCV workshop is available here

Oct 2019: Videos of all talks in our BMVA symposium are on available on YouTube

Oct 2019: Videos of my 4-hour tutorial at North African Summer School in Machine Learning are now on YouTube: Part1, Part2

Sep 2019: Our paper "Retro-Actions: Learning 'Close' by Time-Reversing 'Open' Videos" (ICCVW) is now on Arxiv - Details

Aug 2019: We release pretrained models and technical report for action recognition on EPIC-Kitchens

July 2019: Our paper "Learning Visual Actions Using Multiple Verb-Only Labels" accepted for presentation at BMVC2019 is available on Arxiv

July 2019: Two papers accepted at ICCV 2019, "EPIC-Fusion: Audio-Visual Temporal Binding for Egocentric Action Recognition" with Evangelos Kazakos (Bristol), Arsha Nagrani and Andrew Zisserman (Oxford), and "Fine-Grained Action Retrieval through Multiple Parts-of-Speech Embeddings" with Mike Wray (Bristol), Gabriela Csurka and Diane Larlus (Naver Labs)

July 2019: I'll be giving keynotes at the ICCV2019 workshop YouTube8M, ICCV2019 workshop ACVR, and at the BMVC2019 workshop EgoApp

July 2019: CFP BMVA symposium on Video Understanding in London - 25 Sep

June 2018: Slides from my tutorial at North African Summer School in Machine Learning (NASSMA) are now online

Apr 2019: Camera ready version and details of our paper Dual-Domain LSTM for Cross-Dataset Action Recognition - CVPR 2019 now online

Apr 2019: Camera ready version and details of our paper The Pros and Cons: Rank-aware Temporal Attention for Skill Determination in Long Videos - CVPR 2019 now online

Apr 2019: Fifth EPIC workshop accepted - EPIC@ICCV2019 will be held in Seoul this Oct/Nov

Apr 2019: Will be giving a keynote at the 7th Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics alongside ICCV in Seoul this October.

Apr 2019: Camera ready version and details of our paper Action Recognition from Single Timestamp Supervision in Untrimmed Videos - CVPR 2019 now online and on Arxiv

Mar 2019: Looking forward to returning as a speaker for the 2019 BMVA summer school in Lincoln this June

Mar 2019: Slides for my keynote at VISAPP now online

Mar 2019: Invited as one of the speakers at the First North African summer school in Machine Learning NASSMA

Feb 2019: Three papers accepted at CVPR 2019 (coming soon on Arxiv)

Feb 2019: Keynote at VISAPP 2019 in Prague

Dec 2018: EPIC@CVPR2019 Workshop to take place in Long Beach

Oct 2018: Scheduled talk at MPI Tubingen - details

Sep 2018: EPIC-KITCHENS presented as Oral at ECCV 2018 - camera ready available Arxiv, Webpage

Sep 2018: Leaderboards for the EPIC-KITCHENS challenges on CodaLab are now open

Sep 2018: Two papers presented at BMVC 2018. Action Completion (Dataset) and CaloriNet

Aug 2018: EPIC-SKILLS dataset, for our CVPR2018 paper is now online

Aug 2018: Programme for EPIC@ECCV2018 workshop is now available. Join us in Munich on Sep 9th

July 2018: Looking forward to giving a tutorial on egocentric vision as part of the BMVA Summer School on July 5th, University of East Anglia.

Apr 2018: EPIC-KITCHENS 2018 goes live today: 11.5M Frames, full HD, 60fps, head-mounted, 32 kitchens from 4 cities (in North America and Europe), 10 nationalities. FULLY annotated: 40K action segments, 454K object bounding boxes. Dataset: http://epic-kitchens.github.io Details at: Arxiv

Apr 2018: Our paper "Human Routine Change Detection using Bayesian Modelling" accepted at ICPR2018, to be presented in Beijing this August. Details

Feb 2018: Our paper "Who's Better, Who's Best" accepted at CVPR2018, to be presented in Salt Lake city this June. Details

Feb 2018: Congrats to Yangdi Xu for passing his PhD viva with minor corrections

Jan 2018: Serving on the High Performance Computing exec board at UoB

Oct 2017: Selected as outstanding reviewer at ICCV 2017

Oct 2017: Well-attended Second Int. Egocentric Perception Interaction and Computing (EPIC) workshop alongside ICCV in Venice

Oct 2017: Our paper "Trespassing the Boundaries: Labeling Temporal Bounds for Object Interactions in Egocentric Video" was presented in ICCV - details

Oct 2017: Our paper "Recurrent Assistance: Cross-Dataset Training of LSTMs on Kitchen Tasks" was presented at ACVR - pdf

Sep 2017: Unit details for the new Applied Deep Learning M level unit - Uni Catalogue

Sep 2017: Serving as associate editor for Pattern Recognition

Aug 2017: Happy to be working as a consultant with Bristol's Cookpad on developing their Computer Vision and Machine Learning agenda

Apr 2017: 6 July - Lincoln, BMVA summer school, will be giving a tutorial on Egocentric Vision

Apr 2017: 15 May - Bristol, will be giving a public talk on 'What can a wearable camera know about me?'

Mar 2017: Slides from my talk on Challenges and Opportunities for Action and Activity Recognition using RGBD Data, BMVA Symposium are now available

Feb 2017: Videos from BMVA symposium on Transfer Learning now available

Dec 2016: Final programme for BMVA Symposium on Transfer Learning now available

Oct 2016: Code Released for 3DV paper on acquisition and registration of point clouds using two facing Kinects

Sep 2016: 3D Data Acquisition and Registration Using Two Opposing Kinects - Paper accepted at 3DV

Aug 2016: Action Completion paper accepted at BMVC and dataset released - Project Webpage

Aug 2016: Nokia Technologies donation of €50K Press release

Aug 2016: Action Completion paper accepted at BMVC, York, Sep 2016. project

July 2016: PhD students Michael Wray and Davide Moltisanti awarded second poster prize at BMVA summer school news

July 2016: CFP: Transfer Learning in Computer Vision - BMVA Symposium [details, dates and submission]

Jun 2016: PhD opening in Computer Vision and Machine Learning (Home/EU students) - Open Until , ad on jobs.ac.uk

Jun 2016: CVPR 2016 Demo for GlaciAR

May 2016: EPIC@ECCV2016 Workshop (Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing) Accepted.

Apr 2016: EPSRC Project LOCATE to be funded starting July 2016

Mar 2016: You-Do, I-Learn: Egocentric Unsupervised Discovery of Objects and their Modes of Interaction Towards Video-Based Guidance accepted at CVIU

Nov 2015: EPSRC Project GLANCE to be funded starting March 2016

Sep 2015: Paper "Unsupervised Daily Routine Modelling from a Depth Sensor using Bottom-Up and Top-Down Hierarchies" accepted at ACPR

Sep 2015: Paper "Estimating Visual Attention from a Head Mounted IMU" presented at ISWC in Okasa, Japan

Sep 2015: Paper "Real-time RGB-D Tracking with Depth Scaling Kernelised Correlation Filters and Occlusion Handling" Presented at BMVC

Aug 2015: PhD Student Vahid Soleiman publishes paper on Remote Pulmonary Function Testing using a Depth Sensor at BIOCAS 2015. Demo Video

June 2015: PLOSONE article available online

June 2015: SI on cognitive robotics systems: concepts and applications at the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems is online

Mar 2015: Interdisciplinary research internship awarded for CS student Hazel Doughty.

Sep 2014: Paper "You-Do, I-Learn: Discovering Task Relevant Objects and their Modes of Interaction from Multi-User Egocentric Video" presented at BMVC

Sep 2014: Paper "Online quality assessment of human movement from skeleton data" presented at BMVC

Sep 2014: Paper "Multi-user egocentric Online System for Unsupervised Assistance on Object Usage" presented at ECCVW (ACVR 2014)

Aug 2014: C++ code (improved performance v 1.2) and Android apk for real-time object detector available.

July 2014: The Bristol Egocentric Object Interactions Dataset has now been released

July 2014: Book review published in IAPR newsletter

July 2014: Video lectures from BMVC 2013 are now available online.

July 2014: Sphere project's website irc-sphere.ac.uk has now been released (2013-2018).

May 2014: Project Ideas for 3G403 and 2G400 students available.

Feb 2014: PhD Opening in Ego-centric Vision - apply as soon as possible...

Nov 2013: Project GlaciAR is starting funded by Samsung's GRO 2013 Awards

Nov 2013: Cognitive Robotics Systems (CRS 2013) (IROS 2013 workshop), successfully concludes at Tokyo, Japan.

Sep 2013: BMVC 2013 successfully concluded at Bristol

Aug 2013: Outstanding Reviewer award at IEEE AVSS 2013.

June 2013: Outstanding Reviewer award at IEEE CVPR 2013.

May 2013: New bug-fixed version (v1.1) of our Multi-Object Detector (MOD) code is now available online