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Michael Wray

Assistant Professor of Computer Vision

I am a lecturer/Assistant Professor of Computer Vision at the Department 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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ConTra: (Con)text (Tra)nsformer for Cross-Modal Video Retrieval
Adriano Fragomeni, Michael Wray, Dima Damen,
ACCV (Oral), 2022
[Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]
Egocentric Video-Language Pretraining
Kevin Qinghong Lin, Alex Jinpeng Wang, Mattia Soldan, Michael Wray, Rui Yan, Eric Zhongcong Xu, Difei Gao, Rongcheng Tu, Wenzhe Zhao, Weijie Kong, Chengfei Cai, Hongfa Wang, Dima Damen, Bernard Ghanem, Wei Liu, Mike Zheng Shou
NeurIPS, 2022
[Webpage] [arXiv] [Code]
Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video
Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Eugene Byrne, Zachary Chavis, Antonino Furnari, Rohit Girdhar, Jackson Hamburger, Hao Jiang, Miao Liu, Xingyu Liu, Miguel Martin, Tushar Nagarajan, Ilija Radosavovic, Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Fiona Ryan, Jayant Sharma, Michael Wray, Mengmeng Xu, Eric Zhongcong Xu, Chen Zhao, Siddhant Bansal, Dhruv Batra, Vincent Cartillier, Sean Crane, Tien Do, Morrie Doulaty, Akshay Erapalli, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Adriano Fragomeni, Qichen Fu, Christian Fuegen, Abrham Gebreselasie, Cristina Gonzalez, James Hillis, Xuhua Huang, Yifei Huang, Wenqi Jia, Weslie Khoo, Jachym Kolar, Satwik Kottur, Anurag Kumar, Federico Landini, Chao Li, Yanghao Li, Zhenqiang Li, Karttikeya Mangalam, Raghava Modhugu, Jonathan Munro, Tullie Murrell, Takumi Nishiyasu, Will Price, Paola Ruiz Puentes, Merey Ramazanova, Leda Sari, Kiran Somasundaram, Audrey Southerland, Yusuke Sugano, Ruijie Tao, Minh Vo, Yuchen Wang, Xindi Wu, Takuma Yagi, Yunyi Zhu, Pablo Arbelaez, David Crandall, Dima Damen, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Bernard Ghanem, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, C. V. Jawahar, Hanbyul Joo, Kris Kitani, Haizhou Li, Richard Newcombe, Aude Oliva, Hyun Soo Park, James M. Rehg, Yoichi Sato, Jianbo Shi, Mike Zheng Shou, Antonio Torralba, Lorenzo Torresani, Mingfei Yan, and Jitendra Malik
IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022
[Webpage] [arXiv] [Dataset]
Domain Adaptation in Multi-View Embedding for Cross-Modal Video Retrieval
Jonathan Munro, Michael Wray, Diane Larlus, Gabriela Csurka, Dima Damen
ArXiv, 2021
[arXiv]
Rescaling Egocentric Vision
Dima Damen, Hazel Doughty, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Jian Ma, Evangelos Kazakos, Davide Moltisanti, Jonathan Munro, Toby Perrett, Will Price, and Michael Wray
Springer International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2021
[Webpage] [Dataset]
On Semantic Similarity in Video Retrieval
Michael Wray, Hazel Doughty, and Dima Damen
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021.
[Webpage] [arXiv] [Code] [pdf]

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Michael is a lecturer in Computer Vision at the Computer Science Department 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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