Personal profile
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Activity Analysis, Action Recognition, First-Person Vision, Egocentric Vision, Video Analysis
Short Bio...
Dima Damen is a Professor in Computer Vision at the University of Bristol. Dima is currently an EPSRC Fellow (2020-2025), focusing her research interests in the automatic understanding of object interactions, actions and activities using wearable visual (and depth) sensors. She has contributed to novel research questions including assessing action completion, 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 largest dataset in egocentric vision, with accompanying open challenges. She also leads the EPIC annual workshop series alongside major conferences (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV). Dima is a program chair for ICCV 2021, associate editor of IJCV, IEEE TPAMI and Pattern Recognition. She was selected as a Nokia Research collaborator in 2016, and as an 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 Professsor (2013-2018), Associate Professor (2018-2021) and was appointed as chair in August 2021. She supervises 9 PhD students, and 5 postdoctoral researchers.
Awards and Fellowships
- Outstanding Reviewer, CVPR 2021
- 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
More information: http://dimadamen.github.io
Research Groups and Themes
- Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Keywords
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
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Rescaling Egocentric Vision: Collection Pipeline and Challenges for EPIC-KITCHENS-100
Damen, D., Doughty, H. R., Farinella, G. M., Furnari, A., Kazakos, V., Ma, J., Moltisanti, D., Munro, J. P. N., Perrett, T. J., Price, W. & Wray, M., Jan 2022, In: International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). 130, 1, p. 33–55 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Temporal-Relational CrossTransformers for Few-Shot Action Recognition
Perrett, T. J., Masullo, A., Burghardt, T., Mirmehdi, M. & Damen, D., 2 Nov 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 475-484 10 p. (Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
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SLOW-FAST AUDITORY STREAMS FOR AUDIO RECOGNITION
Kazakos, E., Nagrani, A., Zisserman, A. & Damen, D., 13 May 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
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Projects
- 15 Finished
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Visual AI - Full Programme Grant Extension
Damen, D. (Principal Investigator)
1/06/23 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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Visual AI - Full Programme Grant Extension
Damen, D. (Principal Investigator)
1/06/23 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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iCOP 2.0 - AI-based advances for law enforcement’s response to online child sexual exploitation and abuse in southeast Asia
Rashid, A. (Principal Investigator), Peersman, C. (Researcher), Damen, D. (Co-Investigator), Chen, C. (Researcher) & Evans, L. A. (Manager)
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
Datasets
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EPIC-KITCHENS-100
Aldamen, D. (Creator), Kazakos, E. (Creator), Doughty, H. (Creator), Munro, J. (Creator), Price, W. (Creator), Wray, M. (Creator), Perrett, T. (Creator) & Ma, J. (Creator), University of Bristol, 15 May 2020
DOI: 10.5523/bris.2g1n6qdydwa9u22shpxqzp0t8m, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/2g1n6qdydwa9u22shpxqzp0t8m
Dataset
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EPIC-KITCHENS 2018
Aldamen, D. (Creator), Moltisanti, D. (Creator), Kazakos, E. (Creator), Doughty, H. (Creator), Munro, J. (Creator), Price, W. (Creator), Wray, M. (Creator), Perrett, T. (Creator), Fidler, S. (Contributor), Farinella, G. M. (Contributor) & Furnari, A. (Contributor), University of Bristol, 3 Apr 2018
DOI: 10.5523/bris.3h91syskeag572hl6tvuovwv4d, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/3h91syskeag572hl6tvuovwv4d
Dataset
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EPIC-KITCHENS VISOR
Khalil, A. D. (Contributor), Shan, D. (Contributor), Zhu, B. (Contributor), Ma, J. (Contributor), Kar, A. (Contributor), Higgins, R. (Contributor), Fidler, S. (Contributor), Fouhey, D. (Contributor) & Aldamen, D. (Creator), University of Bristol, 11 Aug 2022
DOI: 10.5523/bris.2v6cgv1x04ol22qp9rm9x2j6a7, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/2v6cgv1x04ol22qp9rm9x2j6a7
Dataset
Prizes
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Outstanding Paper - ICASSP 2021
Damen, D. (Recipient) & Kazakos, V. (Recipient), Jun 2021
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
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Outstanding Reviewer - CVPR 2020
Aldamen, D. (Recipient), Jun 2020
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
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BMVC 2012 Best Poster Prize
Damen, D. (Recipient), 5 Sept 2012
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
- 1 Media coverage or participation
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Action and Video Perception - Interview
Damen, D. (Speaker)
30 Aug 2020Activity: Other activity types › Media coverage or participation