Dima Damen

But it’s still Saturday, no?

YouTube video by BriCS Case study - Isambard-AI: Assistive Technology

Thanks Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) for featuring our work as users of the fantastic #IsambardAI
w/ Michael Wray, J Chalk @prajwalgatti.bsky.social @sinhasaptarshi.bsky.social S Bansal, J Zhao @bristoluni.bsky.social @compscibristol.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxrn...

anyone else keeps confusing overleaf with openreview when they type?
I keep typing openreview when I mean overleaf,
and overleaf when I mean openreview!
#overleaf #openreview
Ideas to solve my brain wiring are welcome!

Special thanks Ayush @ayusht.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org for visiting us @bristoluni.bsky.social @compscibristol.bsky.social for a great #MaVi Seminar on "Physical Inductive Biases for World Models" and thoughtful 1-1s with the researchers.
Have a good trip back &pls visit again soon,

Make sure your paper is recognised...
24 hours until the deadline for this year's EgoVis Distinguished Paper Awards
#CVPR2026 @cvprconference.bsky.social #EgoVis #Paper #Award

UPDATE: We've updated the download process and now you can download the videos of our HowToGround1M dataset in addition to the iGround dataset.

Also, we now provide access to the full HowTo100M dataset!

Download our datasets, or HowTo100M at github.com/ekazakos/grove

If you missed this before NY... A reminder that our @compscibristol.bsky.social #MaVi Summer Program - for current PhD students from Europe inc. @ellis.eu unit students
and internationally is open for applications - DL 29 Jan 2026.
uob-mavi.github.io/Summer@MaVi....

3rd Egocentric Vision (EgoVis) workshop will be held as a full day workshop
@cvprconference.bsky.social #CVPR2026

egovis.github.io/cvpr26/

CFP and challenge deadlines after the NY

Great lineup of 7 keynote speakers...

See you in Denver!

Call for Nominations
EgoVis 2024/2025 Distinguished Paper Awards.
Published a paper contributing to Ego Vision in 2024/25?
Innovative &advancing Ego Vision?
Worthy of a prize?
DL for nominations 20 Feb 2026
Awards announced @cvprconference.bsky.social #CVPR2026

egovis.github.io/awards/2024_...

Great initiative... thanks to the organisers

Worried about AI’s military uses? We are too. We’re organising an ICLR 2026 workshop on AI research and military applications—dual-use risks, transparency, accountability, and ethical/legal governance & policy. Details + paper submissions: see Noa’s post and visit aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io.

Work by @zhifan-zhu.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @compscibristol.bsky.social in close collaboration w Yifei Huang &Yoichi Sato @utokyoofficial.bsky.social as part of the ASPIRE collaboration b/w Japan-UK.
Zhifan Zhu will be on industrial R&D job market in 2026 - reach out!
4/4

We introduce a structured prompting strategy to guide a VLM reasoning about the 3D environment, object usage, and temporal dependencies.
Using public annotations, we measure performance on new eval metrics for parallel performance &analyse results thoroughly.
3/4

How?
formulated as achieving speed⌛️&coverage⚒️ while respecting constraints for a feasible parallel execution around 3D spatial coverage of space🏘️, object constraints🥎(two people cannot use 1 object @ same time) &causal constraints➡️.
Tested on 100 LONG egocentric videos
2/4

Preprint now on ArXiv 📢
The N-Body Problem: Parallel Execution from Single-Person Egocentric Video
Input: Single-person egocentric video 👤
Out: imagine how these tasks can be performed faster by N > 1 people, correctly e.g. N=2 👥
📎 arxiv.org/abs/2512.11393
👀 zhifanzhu.github.io/ego-nbody/
1/4

MaVi Faculty/Hosts: Peter Flach, Majid Mirmehdi, Tilo Burghardt, Raul Santos Rodriguez, Michael Wray, Zahraa S. Abdallah, Guosheng Hu, Wei-Hong Li, Xiang Lu, Nan Lu, Mengyue Yang, Telmo Silva Filho &myself

Applications are open for visiting PhD @compscibristol.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social in 2026 - DL 29 Jan
Would you like to work with any of the Faculty working in Machine Learning and Computer Vision #mavi as part of our summer of research at Bristol program?
uob-mavi.github.io/Summer@MaVi....

Thanks for asking. Jacob is staying for a short postdoc at Bristol. Luckily we don’t need to say goodbye soon.

With the examiners blurred in the background at least we can see Jacob smiling in full view!

a cartoon of spongebob saying `` my work is done here '' while dancing . ALT: a cartoon of spongebob saying `` my work is done here '' while dancing .

Congratulations Jacob Chalk who passed his PhD viva @compscibristol.bsky.social on
"Leveraging Multimodal Data for Egocentric Video Understanding" w no corrections
📜 in ICASSP23 CVPR24 CVPR25 3DV25 TPAMI25
jacobchalk.github.io
🙏examiners @hildekuehne.bsky.social @andrewowens.bsky.social &Wei-Hong Li

Super-exciting talk by Ani Kembhavi from Wayve AI @bristoluni.bsky.social @compscibristol.bsky.social #MaVi Seminar today!
World models for evaluating autonomous driving, GAIA3 released! End-to-end driving model &loads of insights!
Thanks for visiting &spending the day talking to researchers.

Seeing without Pixels: Perception from Camera Trajectories

Zihui Xue, Kristen Grauman @dimadamen.bsky.social Andrew Zisserman, Tengda Han

tl;dr: in title. I love such "blind baseline" papers.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.21681

It was exciting to attend SC'25 #SC25 in #StLoius #Missouri & visit @bristoluni.bsky.social @compscibristol.bsky.social #BriCS Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) stand showcasing our fantastic #Isambard_AI - 11th fastest supercomputer globally.
pics w @simonmcs.bsky.social and Sadaf Alam

😮😭🤯🤒

Check out Leonie's (@bossemel.bsky.social) upcoming NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks paper about a really interesting new dataset for evaluating models of human visual learning.

Bad reviews AND bad weather here... we have an unfair part of the deal...

More than bad reviews, I am mostly frustrated by the unkind messages reviewers give... If you don't agree with how we did something, that's your right, but stating it's unreasonable or ridiculous is not within your right!

Prof. @tokehoye.bsky.social (Aarhus University) and I have an open PhD position (jointly advised) on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026

Please help us share this post among students you know with an interest in Machine Learning and Biodiversity! 🤖🪲🌱

OK!!!!! 😶‍🌫️

"Sliding is all you need" (aka "What really matters in image goal navigation") has been accepted to 3DV 2026 (@3dvconf.bsky.social) as an Oral presentation!

By Gianluca Monaci, @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social and myself.
@naverlabseurope.bsky.social

Because in other countries, particularly in the US, PhD students are not paid to be students over the summer and need to take jobs/internships. Only in Europe do we pay staff and students salaries for all 12 months.
Apologies if that's incorrect but this is what I was told.