CV

Work

• Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey
  • Senior Research Fellow, May 2024 - Present
  • Working on computer vision for accessibility, with a focus on Automated Sign Language Translation. Funding from EPSRC and Google.org.
• King’s College London
  • Research Associate, Feb 2024 - May 2024
  • Working on Responsible AI for RAI-UK.
• University of Surrey
  • Research Assistant, Jul 2023 - Feb 2024
  • Multi-modal video understanding and retrieval for the Horizon EU research program AI4Media.
• Samsung Electronics, Advanced Research Team
  • Research Engineer, Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
  • Research and development on personalised quantization for on-device ASR models.
• University of Surrey
  • Associate Lecturer, May 2018 - Oct 2020
  • Taught undergraduate course: Introduction to Programming.
• D-Lab, Greater London
  • Program Director, Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
  • Strategy and program development for a social enterprise focused on access to creative industries.

Skills

• Languages: English (native), BSL (Level 1), HSK1, Italian (B1)
• Expertise:
  • Computer Vision & Video Understanding
  • Sign Language Translation
  • Action Recognition & Temporal Action Localization
  • Efficient AI (Quantization, Pruning)

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Vision, University of Surrey, 2024
  • Thesis: Advancing Efficiency and Accessibility in Multimodal Video Understanding with Deep Learning
• B.Mus. (Hons) in Music, City, University of London, 2018
  • Composition

Publications

PLOT-TAL: Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Few-Shot Temporal Action Localization

Fish, E., & Gilbert, A. (2025). "PLOT-TAL: Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Few-Shot Temporal Action Localization." Proceedings of the ICCV Workshop on Closing the Loop Between Vision and Language (CLVL).

VALLR: Visual ASR Language Model for Lip Reading

Thomas, M., Fish, E., & Bowden, R. (2025). "VALLR: Visual ASR Language Model for Lip Reading." Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

SLRTP2025 Sign Language Production Challenge: Methodology, Results and Future Work

Walsh, H., Fish, E., et al. (2025). "SLRTP2025 Sign Language Production Challenge: Methodology, Results and Future Work." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops.

Geo-Sign: Hyperbolic Contrastive Regularisation for Geometrically Aware Sign Language Translation

Fish, E., & Bowden, R. (2025). "Geo-Sign: Hyperbolic Contrastive Regularisation for Geometrically Aware Sign Language Translation." arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00129.

Multi-Resolution Audio-Visual Feature Fusion for Temporal Action Localization

Fish, E., Weinbren, J., & Gilbert, A. (2023). "Multi-Resolution Audio-Visual Feature Fusion for Temporal Action Localization." NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Audio.

A Model for Every User and Budget: Label-Free and Personalized Mixed-Precision Quantization

Fish, E., Michieli, U., & Ozay, M. (2023). "A model for every user and budget: Label-free and personalized mixed-precision quantization." Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech).

Two-Stream Transformer Architecture for Long Video Understanding

Fish, E., Weinbren, J., & Gilbert, A. (2022). "Two-Stream Transformer Architecture for Long Video Understanding." Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC).