Dima Damen

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

ICCV 2025

How to Create a Dataset for Computer Vision in 2025 - Oct 2025

Video Understanding Out of the Frame - an Egocentric Perspective - Oct 2025

Summer Keynotes 2025

Video Understanding Out of the Frame - an Egocentric Perspective - PAISS Sep 2025, Grenoble

Video Understanding Out of the Frame - an Egocentric Perspective - ICVSS July 2025, Sicily

CVPR 2025

How to Stand Out in the Crowd? - June 2025

Beyond Long Video Understanding - June 2025

ECCV 2024

More Exploration, Less Exploitation - Sep 2024

VS3 2024

Vision and Sports Summer School Tutorial - July 2024

CVPR 2024 Talks

LOVEU Workshop - Long-Form Egocentric Video Understanding - towards Multi-modal AI Assitant

CV 20/20 Retro Workshop - What's Up with the Ego Buzz? Hype or Hope

Rhobin Workshop - Hand-Object Interaction Understanding and Reconstruction in Egocentric Videos

MULA - On Video, Audio and Language in Egocentric Videos

Tutorials:

(2019) Egocentric Vision - BMVA Summer School 2019, Norwich, UK: slides

(2019) Introduction to Computer Vision - North African Summer School on Machine Learning (NASSMA) Slides [P1],video recording part 1, part 2

(2018) Egocentric vision - BMVA Summer School 2018, Norwich, UK: slides

(2017) Egocentric vision - BMVA Summer School 2017, Lincoln, UK: slides

(2012) Markov Chain Monte Carlo Tutorial: slides | MCMC Matlab Demo | MCMC Matlab Demo README | Perron-Frobenius Theorem Matlab Code | Perron-Frobenius Code ReadMe

Presentations:

Opportunities in Egocentric Video Understanding 2024, Keynote, WACV, Jan 2024

Opportunities in Egocentric Video Understanding, Keynote, Oct 2022

Video Understanding - an Egocentric Perspective, Keynote, Dec 2021

Learning from Narrated Videos of Everyday Tasks, CVPR 2020 Workshop on Learning from Intructional Videos, Keynote, June 2020

A fine(r)-grained perspective onto object understanding, Virtual Keynote, SAIC Toronto, April 2020

A fine-grained perspective onto object understanding, Invited Keynote, NCVPRIPG 2019 Conference, Hubli, India, Dec 2019

A fine-grained perspective onto object understanding, Invited Keynote, YouTube8M Workshop, ICCV 2019

Scaling Egocentric Vision, Extreme Vision Modelling Workshop, ICCV 2019

A fine-grained perspective onto object interactions, Invited Talk, BMVA Symposium (Sep 2019)

A Fine-Grained Perspective onto Object Interactions, Keynote VISAPP 2019, Prague (Feb 2019)

Challenges and Opportunities for Action and Activity Recognition using RGBD Data, BMVA technical meeting: Analysis and Processing of RGBD Data (Mar 2017)

You-Do, I-Learn, BMVC (2014)

Activity Analysis: Finding Explanations for Sets of Events, Berkeley (2010)

Linking Uncertain Events - Searching the space of globally feasible explanations, CMP (2009)

Bicycle Theft Detection - Motivation and Prototype, 2008

Other Talks:

Machine Learning Saves Computer Vision - First year students talk (2014)

Tips from an ex-PhD student (2011)