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March 2026 - Paper Accepted at CVPR Our Paper: "Beyond Caption-Based Queries for Video Moment Retrieval" was accepted at CVPR, congratulations to David! Find out more on the website/read the paper.
January 2026 - New WACV Paper on ArXiv Out paper: "Towards Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Estimation in Unseen Domains" that will be presented at WACV 2026 is now on ArXiv.
January 2026 - Area Chair for ECCV2026/ICML2026 Honoured to be selected as an Area Chair for both ECCV and ICML in 2026.
December 2025 - WACV Paper on ArXiv Our paper: "From Detection to Anticipation: Online Understanding of Struggles across Various Tasks and Activities" that will be presented at WACV is now on ArXiv.
November 2025 - Successful PhD Defence Congratulations to Shijia for passing their PhD defence!
November 2025 - Successful PhD Defence Congratulations to Kevin for passing their PhD defence!
November 2025 - Two Papers Accepted at WACV Congratulations to Shijia and Wiktor. Papers will be on ArXiv soon!
October 2025 - New Paper on ArXiv Our paper: "A Video Is Not Worth a Thosand Words" is now on ArXiv, Website, ArXiv.
October 2025 - New Paper on ArXiv Our paper: "EvoStruggle: A Dataset Capturing the Evolution of Struggle across Activities and Skill Levels" is now on ArXiv, Dataset, ArXiv.
August 2025 - Paper Accepted at *SEM 2025 Our paper: "Evaluating Compositional Generalisation in VLMs and Diffusion Models" has been accepted at *SEM, ArXiv.
August 2025 - Paper Accepted at BMVC 2025 Our paper: "Leveraging Modality Tags for Enhanced Cross-Modal Video Retrieval" has been accepted at BMVC, ArXiv.
August 2025 - Paper Published in IJCV Our paper: "Are you Struggling? Dataset and Baselines for Struggle Determination in Assembly Videos" has been published in IJCV, Paper, Dataset.
July 2025 - Successful PhD Defence Congratulations to Adriano for passing their PhD defence!
July 2025 - Invited Lecture at BMVA SS 2025 I gave a talk about Egocentric Vision at the BMVA summer school in 2025. You can find the link to the slides here. If the link doesn't work, let me know via email!
June 2025 - New CVPRW Paper Our paper: "Video, How do your Tokens Merge?" will be presented at the eLVM workshop at CVPR2025. More info: Website, ArXiv.
June 2025 - New Survey Paper on ArXiv Our paper: "Leveraging Auxiliary Information in Text-to-Video Retrieval: A Review" is now on ArXiv here.
April 2025 - New Paper on ArXiv Our paper: "Leveraging Modality Tags for Enhanced Cross-Modal Video Retrieval" is now on ArXiv here.
February 2025 - Two Papers Accepted at CVPR 2025 Our papers titled HD-EPIC and ShowHowTo were accepted at CVPR2025 and will be presented in Nashville in June!
February 2025 - Area Chair at NeurIPS 2025 Honoured to be an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.
February 2025 - New Paper on ArXiv Our paper: "Moment of Untruth: Dealing with Negative Queries in Video Moment Retrieval" is now on ArXiv, webpage.
February 2025 - New Paper on ArXiv Our paper: "HD-EPIC: A Highly-Detailed Egocentric Video Dataset" is now on ArXiv, webpage.
December 2024 - New Paper on ArXiv Our paper: "ShowHowTo: Generating Scene-Conditioned Step-by-Step Visual Instructions" is now on ArXiv, webpage.
December 2024 - Invited Talk at Durham I gave a talk on Fine Grained Video Understanding from a Personal Perspective.
December 2024 - External Examiner Honoured to have been an external examiner for Tianqiao Chen.
October 2024 - Paper Accepted at WACV 2025 Our paper titled Moment of Untruth: Dealing with Negative Queries in Video Moment Retrieval was accepted at WACV 2025. More details coming soon!
September 2024 - Area Chair at CVPR 2025 Honoured to be an Area Chair for CVPR 2025.
August 2024 - UCL Workshop Talk I gave a talk on Egocentric Video Understanding at Advancements in Time Series Analysis for Computer Vision.
August 2024 - New Paper at ICPR 2024 Our paper SHARP: Segmentation of Hands and Arms by Range using Pseudo-Depth for Enhanced Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Estimation and Action Recognition was accepted at ICPR 2024. Read it here.
August 2024 - New Paper at ACVR Workshop 2024 Our paper Video Editing for Video Retrieval was accepted at the ACVR workshop at ECCV 2024. Read it here.
August 2024 - External Examiner Honoured to have been an exteranl examiner for Edward Fish.
July 2024 - Associate Editor for IET Computer Vision Honoured to be an associate editor for IET in Computer Vision.
July 2024 - BMVA Summer School Lecture I gave a lecture on Egocentric vision at the BMVA summer school in Durham, link to slides here.
June 2024 - Internal Examiner for 2 Theses Honoured to act as an internal examiner for 2 students: Ruixiong Wang and Mengjie Zhou. Congratulations to both for passing with minor Corrections!
April 2024 - New Paper on ArXiv Our paper: "HoI-Ref Hand-Object Interaction Referral in Egocentric Videos" is now on ArXiv, webpage.
April 2024 - Talk at King's College London I gave a talk about interacting with the egocentric perspective at King's College London.
February 2024 - Two Papers Accepted at CVPR2024 GenHowTo and EgoExo4D have been accepted at CVPR.
January 2024 - CVPR Workshop on the future of Video Co-Organising the "What is Next in Video Understanding workshop?" at CVPR 2024.
January 2024 - New Papers on ArXiv Two new papers are on arXiv "GenHowTo: Learning to Generate Actions and State Transformations from Instructional Videos" (here) and "Video Editing for Video Retrieval" (here).
November 2023 - Ego-Exo-4D Released - Our dataset Ego-Exo-4D has been released. Find more information here.
October 2023 - Area Chair at ECCV 2024 - Honoured to serve as an area chair for ECCV 2024.
September 2023 - Paper Accepted at BMVC 2023 - Our paper titled "Learning Temporal Sentence Grounding From Narrated EgoVideos" was accepted at BMVC 2023. See more here.
September 2023 - Call for Presentations for V+L symposium - We are currently looking for presentations at the BMVA 1-day symposium on Vision and Language. Find out more here and apply here.
September 2023 - Organising a 1-day symposium on Vision and Language - I am one of the organisers for a 1-day event in Vision and Language taking place in January 2024. More information here.
July 2023 - Talk at BMVA Summer School - I gave a talk regarding egocentric vision at the BMVA Summer School.
March 2023 - Area Chair at CVPR 2024 - Honoured to serve as an area chair for ECCV 2024.
January 2023 - EPIC-Kitchens 2023 Challenges Open! - The challenges for the 2023 versions of the EPIC-Kitchens Challenges are now open. Find out more here.
January 2023 - Organiser of Ego4D & EPIC workshop at CVPR2023 - I am an organiser for the 3rd Ego4D and 11th EPIC Workshop at CVPR2023.
November 2022 - Area Chair at CVPR 2023 - Honoured to serve as an area chair for CVPR 2023.
October 2022 - Outstanding Reviewer at ECCV2022
October 2022 - Paper Accepted at ACCV 2022 - Our paper titled "ConTra: (Con)text (Tra)nsformer for Cross-Modal Video Retrieval" was accepted at ACCV 2022 as an Oral. See more here.
September 2022 - Paper Accepted at NeurIPS 2022 - Our paper titled "Egocentric Video-Language Pretraining" was accepted at NeurIPS 2022. See more here.
September 2022 - Talk at Video Understanding Symposium - I presented a talk about Ego4D and verbs in video understanding during the second Video Understanding Symposium at the University of Amsterdam.
August 2022 - Call for Extended Abstracts Ego4D@ECCV2022 - You can submit extended abstracts of ongoing/published work at the 2nd Int'l Ego4D workshop at ECCV2022. Full details here.
July 2022 - BMVA Summer School Lecture on Egocentric Vision - I presented a lecture on Egocentric Vision at the BMVA Summer School at UEA. A copy of the slides can be found here.
June 2022 - Research Lecture @ University of Catania - I presented a lecture on my research at the University of Catania.
June 2022 - Russell Group Teacher Conference Keynote - I gave the opening keynote at the Russell Group teacher conference about my journey from PhD student to lecturer.
March 2022 - Paper at CVPR2022 Accepted - Our paper "Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video" was accepted at CVPR2022.
March 2022 - Lecturer Position - I joined the Department of Computer Science as a Lecturer in Computer Vision.
December 2021 - Workshop at CVPR2022 Accepted - Joint Ego4D & EPIC Workshop@CVPR 2022 accepted, website.
October 2021 - Paper Accepted at IJCV - Rescaling Egocentric Vision has been accepted to IJCV, find more information here.
August 2021 - Outstanding Reviewer at ICCV 2021
June 2021 - Workshop Presentation - Presented "On Semantic Similarity in Video Retrieval" at 2nd Large Scale Holistic Video Understanding (CVPR2021). Video Recording.
May 2021 - Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR2021
March 2021 - Paper Accepted at CVPR2021 - "On Semantic Similarity in Video Retrieval" has been accepted at CVPR2021, more information here.
October 2020 - Outstanding Reviewer at BMVC2020
September 2020 - Summer School Presentation - "When Vision Fails, Using Language and Audio to Understand Videos" presented at 8th Intelligent Sensing Summer School.
July 2020 - Release of EPIC-KITCHENS-100 - The extension of EPIC-KITCHENS has now been released for a total of 100 hours. Link to main website.
April 2020 - Journal Version of EPIC-KITCHENS-55 - The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset: Collection Challenges and Baselines has been accepted to IEEE TPAMI.
November 2019 - Successful Thesis Defence - I successfully defended my thesis. Thanks to my reviewers Frank Keller and Jan Van Gamert for their time spent reading the thesis and travelling to Bristol.
July 2019 - Paper Accepted at ICCV2019 - "Fine-Grained Action Retrieval through Multiple Parts of Speech Embeddings" was accepted at ICCV 2019, more info here.
July 2019 - Paper Accepted at BMVC2019 - "Learning Visual Actions Using Multiple Verb-Only Labels" was accepted at BMVC 2019, find out more here.
June 2018 - Presentation at BMVA Symposium - I presented a talk on "Towards an Unequivocal Representation of Actions" at the BMVA Symposium: Robotics meets Semanics. Slides. Video Recording.

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