Dima Damen

Professor of Computer Vision, Department of Computer Science,
Lead of Machine Learning and Computer Vision Group, University of Bristol

EPSRC Early Career Fellow (2020-2025)

Short Bio...

Dima Damen is a Professor of 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 associate editor of IJCV, IEEE TPAMI and Pattern Recognition, and was a program chair for ICCV 2021. 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 Professor (2013-2018), Associate Professor (2018-2021) and was appointed as chair in August 2021. She supervises 10 PhD students, 2 Visiting PhD students and 2 postdoctoral researchers.

Research Group Members

Previous Students, and Postdocs

Awards and Fellowships

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

Workshops and Conference Organisation

(Ongoing) Program Chair for International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Montreal, Oct 2021

(Upcoming) Tutorial Chair for International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Paris, Sep 2023

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.

Professional Memberships

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

Appointments

From Aug 2018, I am a Reader (Associate Professor) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol.

Previous Appointments

  • Principal Investigator on EPSRC project LOCATE (2016 - 2018)
  • Task leader on EPSRC-IRC project SPHERE (2013 - 2018)
  • Associate Editor for IET Computer Vision, 2014-2018
  • July 2017 - July 2018: Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
  • Jan 2013 - July 2017: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
  • Feb 2010 - Dec 2012: Research Associate (RA) working on the Cognito research project (http://www.ict-cognito.org) working with Andrew Calway, Walterio Mayol-Cuevas and Andrew Gee.
  • Sep 2006 - Nov 2009: I finished my PhD in Computer vision under the supervision of David Hogg.
  • Oct 2003 - Sep 2006: Lecturer at Petra University
  • Sep 2002 - Sep 2003: MSc (with High Distinction) in Distributed Multimedia Systems from the University of Leeds. My MSc thesis was in collaboration with HP Labs
  • June 2002: I finished my undergraduate studies in Computer Science.