Professor of Computer Vision,
School of Computer Science,Lead of Machine Learning and Computer Vision Group, University of Bristol
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Professor of Computer Vision,
School of Computer Science,Dima Damen is a Professor of Computer Vision at the University of Bristol and Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Dima is currently an EPSRC Fellow (2020-2026), focusing her research interests in the automatic understanding of object interactions, actions and activities using wearable visual (and depth) sensors. She is best known for her leading works in Egocentric Vision, and has also contributed to novel research questions including mono-to-3D, video object segmentation, assessing action completion, domain adaptation, skill/expertise determination from video sequences, discovering task-relevant objects, dual-domain and dual-time learning as well as multi-modal fusion using vision, audio and language.
She is the project lead for EPIC-KITCHENS, the seminal dataset in egocentric vision, with accompanying open challenges and follow-up works: EPIC-Sounds, VISOR and EPIC Fields, as well as the recent HD-EPIC. She is part of the large-scale consortium effort Ego4D and Ego-Exo4D. She is an ELLIS Fellow, associate editor (AE) of IJCV, and was a program chair for ICCV 2021 and Associate Editor-in-Chief (AEIC) of IEEE TPAMI (2023-2025). She is frequently a Senior Area Chair and Area Chair in major conferences and was selected as Outstanding SAC in ECCV 2024 and Outstanding Reviewer in CVPR2021, CVPR2020, ICCV2017, CVPR2013 and CVPR2012. Dima received her PhD from the University of Leeds (2009), joined the University of Bristol as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2010-2012), Assistant Professor (2013-2018), Associate Professor (2018-2021) and was appointed as chair in August 2021. She supervises 2 postdoctoral researchers, 8 PhD students and 2 Visiting PhD students.
At the University of Bristol, Dima leads the Machine Learning and Computer Vision (MaVi) lab.
At Google DeepMind, Dima is part of the Vision team, led by Andrew Zisserman, focusing on video understanding research. Her latest contribution is to the CVPR 2025 paper: Learning from Streaming Video with Orthogonal Gradients
EPSRC Early Career Fellow, 2020-2025
Outstanding Reviewer, CVPR 2020
Outstanding Reviewer, ICCV, 2017
University Research Fellowship 2017/2018, University of Bristol, 2017
Nokia Research Collaborator, 2016
Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE CVPR, 2013
Outstanding Review, IEEE AVSS, 2013
Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE CVPR, 2012
Overseas Research Students Award Scholarship (ORSAS), 2006-2009
MSc Prize for Best Academic Performance, University of Leeds, 2003
Tutorial Chair for International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Paris, Sep 2023
Program Chair for International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Montreal, Oct 2021
Organiser for Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC), ECCV Workshop, Virtual, August 2020.
Organiser for Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC), CVPR Workshop, Virtual, June 2020.
Organiser for Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC), ICCV Workshop, Seoul, Oct 2019.
Organiser for Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC), CVPR Workshop, Long Beach, June 2019.
Organiser for Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC), ECCV Workshop, Munich, Oct 2018.
Organiser for Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC), ICCV Workshop, Venice, Oct 2017.
Chair of BMVA Symposium on Transfer Learning in Computer Vision, London, Jan 2017.
Organiser for Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC), ECCV Workshop, Amsterdam, Oct 2016.
Organiser for Cognitive Robotics Systems - Replicating Human Actions and Activities (CRS-2013), IROS Workshop, Tokyo, Oct 2013.
Organiser for Cognitive Assistive Systems - Closing the Action Perception Loop (CAS-2012), IROS Workshop, Vilamoura, Oct 2012.
Program Chair of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Bristol, Sep 2013.
Publicity chair and spotlights organiser of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Francisco, USA, June 2010.
Student organising committee for British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Leeds, Sep 2008.
ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Society Member, 2020 -
EPSRC Associate Peer Review College Member, 2016 -
University of Bristol Senate Member 2016 -
ViiHM Member, 2015 -
IEEE Member, 2010 -
BMVA Member, 2007 -
IEEE Student Member, 2008-2009
From Aug 2021, I am a Professor of Computer Vision at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol.