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
News
- 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.
For a full list of News, click here.
Research
Short list of recent Research Projects, click here for a full list.
|
Leveraging Modality Tags for Enhanced Cross-Modal Video Retrieval
Adriano Fragomeni, Dima Damen, Michael Wray arXiv, 2025 [arXiv] |
|
HD-EPIC: A Highly Detailed Egocentric Dataset
Toby Perrett, Ahmad Darkhalil, Saptarshi Sinha, Omar Emara, Sam Pollard, Kranti Parida, Kaiting Liu, Prajwal Gatti, Siddhant Bansal, Kevin Flanagan, Jacob Chalk, Zhifan Zhu, Rhodri Guerrier, Fahd Abdelazim, Bin Zhu, Davide Moltisanti, Michael Wray, Hazel Doughty, Dima Damen CVPR, 2025 [Webpage] [arXiv] [Annotations] [Videos] |
|
Moment of Untruth: Dealing with Negative Queries in Video Moment Retrieval
Kevin Flanagan, Dima Damen, Michael Wray WACV, 2025 [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
|
ShowHowTo: Generating Scene-Conditioned Step-by-Step Visual Instructions
Tomáš Souček, Prajwal Gatti, Michael Wray, Ivan Laptev, Dima Damen, Josef Sivic CVPR, 2025 [Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] |
|
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] |
For a full list of Research projects, click here.
Short Bio
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.Teaching
- Applied Deep Learning 22/23, 23/24, 24/25. Webpage.
- Computer Systems A 22/23. 23/24, 24/25. Webpage.
- Individual Projects 22/23. 23/24, 24/25. Webpage.
People
Current
- Adriano Fragomeni: PhD, 2020–Current (w/ Dima Damen)
- Kevin Flanagan: PhD, 2021–Current (w/ Dima Damen)
- Shijia Feng: PhD, 2022–Current (w/ Walterio Mayol Cuevas)
- Sam Pollard: MEng, PhD, 2023–Current
- Beth Pearson: PhD, 2023–Current (w/ Martha Lewis)
- Fahd Abdelazim: PhD, 2024–Current
- Alyssa Boisse: MEng, 2025
- Amr Khaled Mohamed El-Sawy: BSc, 2025
- Jacob Seaborn: MEng, 2025
- Aleksandra Walusiak: MEng, 2025
Previous
- Richa Banthia: MEng, 2024
- Alex Elwood: MEng, 2024
- Moise Guran: MEng, 2024
- Rahat Mittal: BSc, 2024
- Bence Szarka: MEng, 2024
- Lee Tancock: MEng, 2023
- Zac Woodford: MEng, 2023
- Benjamin Gutierrez Serafin: MSc, 2020
- Pei Huang: MSc, 2016
Misc.
Presentations
- BMVA Summer School Egocentric Vision Lecture 2022, 2023, 2024.
- VIViD Research Seminar, Durham University Fine Grained Video Understanding from a Personal Perspective. 2024.
- Advancements in Time Series Analysis for Computer Vision: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges Unlocking the Temporal Dimension from the Egocentric Perspective 2024.
- Video Understanding Symposium 2022 Do we still need Classification for Video Understanding? 2022.
- BMVA Symposium: Robotics Meets Semantics Towards an Unequivocal Representation of Actions. 2018.
- EPIC@ECCV2016 SEMBED: Semantic Embedding of Egocentric Action Videos. 2016.
Workshop Organiser
- WINVU: CVPR2024
- EPIC@: ICCV2021, CVPR2021, ECCV2020
- Joint Ego4D+EPIC@: CVPR2023, CVPR2022
- Ego4D@: ECCV2022
Area Chair
- CVPR: 2025, 2024, 2023
- ECCV: 2024
- NeurIPS: 2025, 2024
Associate Editor
- IET Computer Vision 2024–Current
- ToMM Special Issue on Text-Multimedia Retrieval 2024
Outstanding Reviewer
- BMVC2024
- ECCV2022
- ICCV2021
- CVPR2021
- BMVC2020
Reviewing Duties
Conferences
- CVPR: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
- NeurIPS: 2023
- NeurIPS D&B Track: 2024, 2023
- ICCV: 2025, 2023, 2021
- ECCV: 2022
- ACCV: 2024, 2022, 2020
- BMVC: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019
- WACV: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
Journals
- TPAMI
- IJCV
- TCSVT
- Pattern Recognition
- TOMM