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Michael Wray

Assistant Professor of Computer Vision

I am a lecturer/Assistant Professor of Computer Vision at the School of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. My research interests are in multi-modal video understanding, particularly for egocentric videos — focusing on how both vision and language can be tied together towards tasks such as cross-modal retrieval, grounding and captioning. I am part of MaVi and ViLab.

Email: michael (dot) wray (at) bristol (dot) ac (dot) uk

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SHARP: Segmentation of Hands and Arms by Range using Pseudo-Depth for Enhanced Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Estimation and Action Recognition
Wiktor Mucha, Michael Wray, Martin Kampel
ICPR, 2024
[arXiv] [Code]
HOI-Ref: Hand-Object Interaction Referral in Egocentric Vision
Siddhant Bansal, Michael Wray, Dima Damen
arXiv, 2024
[Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]
Video Editing for Video Retrieval
Bin Zhu, Kevin Flanagan, Adriano Fragomeni, Michael Wray, Dima Damen
Twelfth International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics ECCV, 2024
[arXiv]
GenHowTo: Learning to Generate Actions and State Transformations from Instructional Videos
Tomáš Souček, Dima Damen, Michael Wray, Ivan Laptev, Josef Sivic
IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]
Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives
Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Lorenzo Torresani, Kris Kitani, Jitendra Malik, Triantafyllos Afouras, Kumar Ashutosh, Vijay Baiyya, Siddhant Bansal, Bikram Boote, Eugene Byrne, Zach Chavis, Joya Chen, Feng Cheng, Fu-Jen Chu, Sean Crane, Avijit Dasgupta, Jing Dong, Maria Escobar, Cristhian Forigua, Abrham Gebreselasie, Sanjay Haresh, Jing Huang, Md Mohaiminul Islam, Suyog Jain, Rawal Khirodkar, Devansh Kukreja, Kevin J Liang, Jia-Wei Liu, Sagnik Majumder, Yongsen Mao, Miguel Martin, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Tushar Nagarajan, Francesco Ragusa, Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Luigi Seminara, Arjun Somayazulu, Yale Song, Shan Su, Zihui Xue, Edward Zhang, Jinxu Zhang, Angela Castillo, Changan Chen, Xinzhu Fu, Ryosuke Furuta, Cristina Gonzalez, Prince Gupta, Jiabo Hu, Yifei Huang, Yiming Huang, Weslie Khoo, Anush Kumar, Robert Kuo, Sach Lakhavani, Miao Liu, Mi Luo, Zhengyi Luo, Brighid Meredith, Austin Miller, Oluwatumininu Oguntola, Xiaqing Pan, Penny Peng, Shraman Pramanick, Merey Ramazanova, Fiona Ryan, Wei Shan, Kiran Somasundaram, Chenan Song, Audrey Southerland, Masatoshi Tateno, Huiyu Wang, Yuchen Wang, Takuma Yagi, Mingfei Yan, Xitong Yang, Zecheng Yu, Shengxin Cindy Zha, Chen Zhao, Ziwei Zhao, Zhifan Zhu, Jeff Zhuo, Pablo Arbelaez, Gedas Bertasius, David Crandall, Dima Damen, Jakob Engel, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Bernard Ghanem, Judy Hoffman, C. V. Jawahar, Richard Newcombe, Hyun Soo Park, James M. Rehg, Yoichi Sato, Manolis Savva, Jianbo Shi, Mike Zheng Shou, Michael Wray
IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Webpage] [arXiv]
Learning Temporal Sentence Grounding From Narrated EgoVideos
Kevin Flanagan, Dima Damen, Michael Wray
BMVC, 2023
[Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]

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Michael is a lecturer in Computer Vision at the School of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He finished his PhD titled "Verbs and Me: an Investigation into Verbs as Labels for Action Recognition in Video Understanding" in 2019 under the supervision of Professor Dima Damen. After, he stayed in the same lab as a Post-Doc working on Vision and Language and the collection of the Ego4D Dataset. Michael has led the organisation EPIC workshop series from 2021 onwards, is an organiser of the Ego4D workshop series, and is an ELLIS member.

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