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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Students sometimes ask me if it still makes sense, in this accelerating age, to pursue a PhD in AI. Perhaps counterintuitively, I think it's a great time to do so. I wrote up some thoughts on this here: web.mit.edu/phillipi/www...

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It was a great week @eccv.bsky.social #ECCV2026 #Malmo for current members @compscibristol.bsky.social #MaVi group and catching up with alumni! Here's a group pic missing a few, @prajwalgatti.bsky.social @zhifan-zhu.bsky.social @ekazakos.bsky.social Siddhant, Ahmad, Jacob, Alex, Toby, Kevin.

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This afternoon @eccv.bsky.social #ECCV2026 you can catch me at: 13:40 Wearables AI 2:30 Effective World Models for Embodied AI 3:40 CONTEXTUS 4:30 Force-Grounded Articulated Manipulation incl my particular 🌶️ take: Don't ask what's a world model, please ask what is an action!

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dima Damen @dimadamen.bsky.social on ego-centric vision and tracking objects and hands in the 3D Humans workshop at ECCV.

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New papers on recurrent transformers: arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21562 (ours): train full Tr, distill -> rec Tr arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02870 train full and rec jointly, min. coherence arxiv.org/pdf/2606.06479 train rec Tr with predictive obj. arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08888 train full Tr, add rec latents, multi-pass

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Diane Larlus @dlarlus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Our #ECCV2026 Whareformer paper tackles long-term object tracking in Egocentric videos 🎓https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08537 see Dima's thread below 🔽 joint work w Jacob Chalk, @saptarshisinha.bsky.social @dimadamen.bsky.social from Bristol & @skamalas.bsky.social from @naverlabseurope.bsky.social

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thanks @elliot-eu.bsky.social for the short interview on why egocentric vision is the right place to start your exploration into understanding human actions youtu.be/DfbxlgWpKSQ

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Yannis Kalantidis @skamalas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Excited to share our #ECCV2026 paper introducing Whareformer, which learns to track what is where in long egocentric videos. Proud to collaborate with Jacob Chalk and @sinhasaptarshi.bsky.social and the inspiring, humbling forces that are @dlarlus.bsky.social and @dimadamen.bsky.social

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

NEW Whareformer: Learning to Track What is Where in Long Egocentric Videos @eccvconf #ECCV2026 paper The first online learning approach to track dynamic objects in ego video reasoning on appearance &3D location w track memory & explicit new track token. jacobchalk.github.io/Whareformer/ 🧵

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

*NEW* Our #ECCV2026 @eccv.bsky.social paper Towards in-the-wild Egocentric 3D Hand-Object Pose Estimation Now on ArXiv w Dataset, Code&model sid2697.github.io/epic-contact/ arxiv.org/abs/2606.30598 Two contributions: 1. EPIC-Contact Dataset 2. HOPformer Method &Checkpoint 🧵 1/6

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#ECCV2026 paper: A scalar per patch from pre-trained ViTs enables fast moving navigation in the real world 966 *REAL* nav episodes (!!) performed by S. Janny with Dino-v3, Dino-v2, DUNE, VC1, AM-RADIO encoders show that patch features can be bottlenecked to 1 value ➡️ affordances emerge. 1/8

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

For your Embodied AI task you want a recurrent model with constant complexity per step, but you don't want to lose the power of transformers (which store the full obs history and attend to it)? Do not despair, we have your back. We distill transformers into recurrent transformers 1/8

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 17/06/2026

Get to know @hazeldoughty.bsky.social, Asst Prof at @unileiden.bsky.social 🇳🇱 and ELLIS Member. She researches computer vision, with a focus on fine-grained video understanding under limited supervision. Her goal is to enable a deeper understanding of video content and motion. #WomenInELLIS

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Congratulations @zhifan-zhu.bsky.social who passed his viva today @compscibristol.bsky.social, examined by Siyu Tang (ETH Zurich) &Andrew Calway on: Understanding 3D Dynamics of Hands, Objects and Bodies in Long Egocentric Videos zhifanzhu.github.io He is on the job market for positions in industry

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

What can you do with a 4-hour delay at Denver after @cvprconference.bsky.social? Create a collage of this week... 🧵 to tag all those who helped shape these captured moments... it was lovely to see you all and hope to catch up again soon...

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ELLIOT Project @elliot-eu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We are excited to welcome @dimadamen.bsky.social as a speaker at the Workshop on Multimodal Foundation Models!🌐🤖 Professor of Computer Vision at the University of Bristol and Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, she will present: “Modelling in an Ego-Sensed World”. 🔗 Link in the comments.

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Many congratulations Prof Jitendra Malik elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society @royalsociety.org in 2026 - well and truly deserved! Jitendra's contributions extend to inspiring, advising and mentoring many in our community, and just being a very nice person! royalsociety.org/news/2026/05...

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In my team we have two open positions on AI for robotics and in particular on manipulation, for junior and senior researchers. With us, connect fundamental research questions with real operational problems and contribute to emerging AI-driven robotics services. careers.werecruit.io/en/naver-lab...

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

From the V-Jepa2 presentation: Action anticipation in EPIC-KITCHENS is "a very challenging task and still there’s head room for improvement on this task". V-Jepa2 establishes a new SOTA but still <65% on both verb and noun acc. Mido Assran at the @iclr-conf.bsky.social workshop on World Models

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Attending @iclr-conf.bsky.social #ICLR2026? Join us for the 2nd workshop on world models - full day 202 A/B @meng-yue-yang.bsky.social opening the workshop right now

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I so much enjoyed Jay McClelland's talk @iclr-conf.bsky.social #ICLR2026 workshop on New Frontiers in Associative Memory. Some quotes: * AI is staged until deployed and then they are frozen at inference... AI systems are not continual learners 1/3

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

For those attending @iclr-conf.bsky.social maybe we need a reminder that a panel moderator should be "like a great referee: if they did their job perfectly, you barely noticed they were there, but the game moved beautifully because of them."

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Workshops are always more interesting than the main conference! @iclr-conf.bsky.social What's next in Next Token Prediction workshop @jcniebles.bsky.social starting the action,

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Exciting 2 weeks ahead @csail.mit.edu thanks to B Freeman for hosting.. Sad I'll be missing Antonio - but what would be a better inspirational place to stay than his office!! Already caught up with @vincentsitzmann.bsky.social @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social ... will be a fun time!

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

At @brics-uob.bsky.social summit today @bristoluni.bsky.social. Happy faces of users all around. I &my team are proud users thanks to national DSIT grants. I took virtual pictures with the original Isambard and the new Isambard! Thanks @simonmcs.bsky.social, Sadaf and the team for the invitation.

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Congrats Ahmad Darkhalil who passed his PhD today @compscibristol.bsky.social, examined by @csprofkgd.bsky.social & @chriswolfvision.bsky.social. Thesis includes his excellent work on: VISOR, EPIC Fields, HD-EPIC, EgoPoints, &Hand-Object Detection. Check works at: ahmaddarkhalil.github.io

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Next week I’ll be in Bristol as a PhD viva examiner and to give a talk, hosted by @dimadamen.bsky.social. Looking forward to it 🤗

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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...

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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!

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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,

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

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

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GitHub - ekazakos/grove: Code implementation for the paper "Large-scale Pre-training for Grounded Video Caption Generation" (ICCV 2025)

Code implementation for the paper "Large-scale Pre-training for Grounded Video Caption Generation" (ICCV 2025) - ekazakos/grove

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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....

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

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!

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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_...

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Great initiative... thanks to the organisers

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Evangelos Kazakos @ekazakos.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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.

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

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....

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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.

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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

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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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.

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 11/11/2025

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! 🤖🪲🌱

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"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

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#CVPR2026 @cvprconference.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Have a question for a #CVPR2026 organizer? Use the form. Form: support.conferences.computer.org/cvpr/help-desk

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Dima Damen @ECCV 2026 @dimadamen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🛑 New Paper PointSt3R: Point Tracking through 3D Grounded Correspondence arxiv.org/abs/2510.26443 Can point tracking be re-formulated as pairwise frame correspondence solely? We fine-tuning MASt3R with dynamic correspondences and a visibility loss and achieve competitive point tracking results 1/3

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