One Day Meeting: BMVA Symposium on Human Behaviour Understanding: From Models to Real-World Deployment.
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Chairs: Jingjing Liu (University of Bristol), Qianhui Men (University of Bristol), Guanxiong Sun (Queen’s University Belfast), Xudong Ma (University of Oxford), Hongbo Bo (University of Bristol), Dr Amirhossein Dadashzadeh (University of Bristol)
Queries? contact the Meeting's Organiser Andrew Gilbert here
Invited Speakers
- Prof. Hubert P. H. Shum (Durham University)
- Prof. Hyung Jin Chang (University of Birmingham)
- Dr Tengda Han (Google DeepMind/University of Oxford)
- Dr Steven McDonagh (University of Edinburgh)
- Dr Dandan Zhang (Imperial College London)
Overview
Recent progress in computer vision, multimodal AI, and large-scale learning has created new opportunities for understanding human behaviour from visual and multimodal data. At the same time, significant challenges remain in robustness, generalisation, interpretability, privacy, reliability, and deployment in unconstrained real-world settings. This symposium aims to bring together researchers working on both methodological advances and real-world applications, spanning computer vision, multimodal learning, embodied AI, healthcare, robotics, and assistive technologies.
Schedule
| Start | End | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 09:50 | Registration & Coffee | ||
| 09:50 | 10:30 | Invited Keynote Speaker – Hyung Jin Chang (University of Birmingham) | ||
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Accepted Talks Pt. 1 (2 × 15 min: 12 min presentation + 3 min Q&A) | ||
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Accepted Talks Pt. 2 (2 × 15 min: 12 min presentation + 3 min Q&A) | ||
| 12:00 | 12:40 | Invited Keynote Speaker – Hubert P. H. Shum (Durham University) | ||
| 12:40 | 13:40 | Lunch | ||
| 13:40 | 14:20 | Invited Keynote Speaker – Steven McDonagh (University of Edinburgh) | ||
| 14:20 | 15:05 | Accepted Talks Pt. 3 (3 × 15 min: 12 min presentation + 3 min Q&A) | ||
| 15:05 | 15.35 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:35 | 16:15 | Invited Keynote Speaker – Dandan Zhang (Imperial College London) | ||
| 16:15 | 16:55 | Invited Keynote Speaker – Tengda Han (Google DeepMind / University of Oxford) | ||
| 16:55 | 17:00 | Closing Remarks |
Accepted Talks
12 min each + 3 mins questions
Accepted Talks Part 1:
Philip Birch – Towards Robust Human Behaviour Understanding in Unconstrained Environments
Hyun Jin Cho – Amputated Joint Aware 3D Human Mesh Recovery: Toward Inclusive Body Understanding
Accepted Talks Part 2:
Qiushuo Cheng – Towards Vision-Based Quantification of Parkinsonian Turning Motion
Lewis Dickson – More Than a Hand-Waving Argument: Infant Hand Motion from Archival Video with SAM 3 and Optical Flow
Accepted Talks Part 3:
Alzbeta Manova – Goals, Obstacles, and Intentions: Hand Motion Perceptual Failures in Vision-Language Models
Mahrukh Awan – Language-Grounded Detection of Fine-Grained Nonverbal Interactions
Xu Dong – Moving Beyond More Views: Redundancy-Aware Ego–Exo Fusion for Proficiency Estimation
Poster Presentations:
Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya – CrowdTraj: A Benchmark for Automatic Trajectory Predictions Dataset in Crowd Scenes
Sadegh Rahmani – From Human Perception to Human-Inspired Egocentric Action Understanding
Damith Senadeera – From Video-Only to Audio-Visual Violence Detection using Efficient and Adaptive State-Space Models
Oliver Hixon-Fisher – Pose Reconstruction from Sparse Input for VR Avatars
Fatemeh Rahimi – A Multimodal Theory-of-Mind Framework for Trust-Aware HRI
Jordan Williams – Ourobor.Os – Adaptive Human Behaviour, Neurodivergence, Creativity & Cross-Sector Deployment
Important: This is an in-person event, with no virtual attendance option. We kindly ask all presenters to join us at the British Computer Society on the day.
Meeting Location
The meeting will take place at:
British Computer Society (BCS), 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP
Registration
We keep the cost of attending these events as low as possible to ensure no barriers from the whole computer vision community attending. The registration costs are as follows
- All Attendees: £30 Including lunch and refreshments for the day