Senior Lecturer in computer vision and trustworthy machine learning at the University of Sheffield.

Joined November 2009
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That’s a wrap for #BMVC2025! Day 3 and Day 4 brought an inspiring keynote, the Doctoral Consortium, vibrant poster & oral sessions, engaging workshop talks, and our awards & closing remarks. We hope everyone enjoyed #BMVC2025 and Sheffield — thanks for being part of it! 🎉🙌✨
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We show that the structure awareness is the key to enhance the veracity of neuromrphic vision data in our paper at #BMVC2025 paper. Find us at the morning poster session on day 3. bmvc2025.bmva.org/proceeding…
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Check out #BMVC2025 Day 2 conference highlights! An inspiring keynote, engaging poster and oral sessions, and a wonderful conference dinner with live music.🎉🎶 Hope everyone enjoyed the day!🤗 Keep sharing your moments with #BMVC2025!
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Day 2 at #BMVC2025 brought another exciting keynote from Prof. Marc Pollefeys (@mapo1) from @ETH Zurich on Spatial AI. Inspiring talk exploring how rich 3D maps and semantic scene understanding can empower both people and robots to interact with the world more intelligently.
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A fantastic start to #BMVC2025! Check out the Day 1 highlights from engaging sessions to an incredible atmosphere all around. Keep sharing your experiences with #BMVC2025!🥳
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Day 1 at #BMVC2025 featured an inspiring keynote from Prof. Philip Torr on AI for the People — a call to ensure AI empowers everyone and supports a fair society. Excited for the week ahead of cutting-edge research! Share your conference highlights with #BMVC2025 ✨🚀
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🎊 Today is tha day! 🎊 #BMVC2025
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#bmvc2025 Day 1
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Charith Abhayaratne retweeted
We’re all set for Monday’s kickoff at #BMVC2025! 🚀🥳 Can’t wait to welcome everyone for a week of inspiring research, talks, and connections. Be sure to share your conference highlights, stories, and photos using #BMVC2025 — let’s keep the excitement flowing all week! 📸✨
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ONE WEEK LEFT! #BMVC2025
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Our latest woek on object recognition using event cameras presented at IJCNN25 last week at Rome. Congratulations to Hai Yu. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.…
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Spatio-temporal graph neural network based child action recognition using data-efficient methods: A systematic analysis sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @Danny__SM

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BMVC 2025 will be held in Sheffield in November this year. The call for papers is now available.
We're excited to announce that the BMVC 2025 Call for Papers is now open! 📅 Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 9 May 2025 📅 Paper submission deadline: Friday, 16 May 2025 📅 Notification of acceptance: Friday, 25 July 2025 More info: bmvc2025.bmva.org/
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A successful conclusion to our first Sandpit, our new teams submitted a draft research proposal! Thank you to all the participants & partners who attended, we hope you enjoyed the collaborative working with industry, healthcare, academia & patient & public involvement.
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Great news for Engineering at Sheffield. We are ranked in the Top 100 in the 2024 Times Higher World Subject Rankings 🎉👏sheffield.ac.uk/engineering/…

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That's a wrap on the Shef.AI Community Meeting 6! 84 attendees joined us for a day of insightful discussions and innovative ideas, including a talk from Building Digital UK. Thanks to all contributors and participants. Here's a glimpse of the event. #AI #Workshop
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Great news for electrical and electronic engineering at @sheffielduni! 🏆 This month has seen UK top five rankings announced in both the @guardian and @thetimes university guides for 2024⚡️ Read more: sheffield.ac.uk/eee/news/top… #gooduniversityguide2024 #guardianuniversityguide
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Congratulations to Abdulaziz Alrashidi for the publication in ACM CHI23. This study explored the navigational challenges of an unfamiliar room and what verbal guidance in a multimedia navigation system would be useful for visually impaired people dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35445…
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In our latest work, doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.… explore incorporating regions of interests within 3D CNNs for classifying COVID-19 chest CT scans without slice level labels. Congratulations to my research student Roy Xue @Roy7_xue for his first journal paper.
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