Professional Activities
Conference Services
Conference Organizations
- Conference Chair of Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications 2022
- Conference Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2022 Watch on Youtube
- Conference Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games 2019 Watch on Youtube
- Program Chair of the British Machine Vision Conference 2018 Watch on Youtube
- Program Chair of the International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications 2018
- Program Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2016
- Co-Organiser of IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshop on Human-Autonomous Vehicle Interaction 2025
- Demo and Poster Chair of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2018
- Area Chair of the British Machine Vision Conference 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020
- Local Chair of the EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing 2018
- Local Chair of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2014
Conference Program Committee
(Technical Reviewers in Computer Vision Conferences)
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020, 2025
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2024, 2025
- Eurographics (EG) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
- Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2021
- IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2020
- ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
- Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG) 2016, 2017, 2018
- ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG, formerly Motion in Games) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021
- Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2020
- International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
- Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2018, 2019, 2020
- International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG) 2019, 2020
- International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2020
- ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual-Reality Continnum and its Applications in Industry (VRCAI) 2019
- International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
- IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) 2018
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Workshop on Data-Driven Animation Techniques (D2AT) 2017
- International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL) 2015
Session Chair
- ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2022
- ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2012, 2014, 2018
- ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG, formerly Motion in Games) 2016, 2019
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2018
- International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA) 2018
- JSPS UK/Japan Symposium on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality in 2014
Journal Editorships
- IET Computer Vision, Associate Editor, 2024 - Present
- Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Associate Editor, 2019 - 2023
- Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), Associate Editor, 2017 - 2023
- International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Guest Editor, Special Issue on Machine Vision and Deep Learning, 2020
- Computers and Graphics (C&G), Guest Editor, Special Section on Motion, Interactions and Games, 2020
- Computers and Graphics (C&G), Guest Editor, Special Section on Motion in Games, 2017
Awards
- The Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize runner-up for the co-supervised PhD Li Li's PhD thesis.
- Best Paper Award in the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition DCAMI Workshop, 2024
- The Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize Runner-Up for the co-supervised PhD Li Li's thesis.
- Exceptional Achievement for Excellence in PhD Supervision by Durham University in 2023
- Exceptional Achievement for Excellence in Teaching by Durham University in 2022
- Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems, 2021
- Best Student Paper Award in the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), 2020
- Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Software Knowledge Information Management and Applications (SKIMA), 2019
- Best Poster Award in the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG), 2019
- Best Paper Award in the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE), 2017
- Best Paper Award in the UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2016
- Best Poster Award in the ACM SIGGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games (MIG), 2016
- Best Paper Award in the Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, 2008
- IEEE CIS Outstanding Student-Paper Travel Grants for the co-supervised PhD Jie Li in 2016
- IEEE CIS Outstanding Student-Paper Travel Grants for the co-supervised PhD Yao Tan in 2016
- Outstanding Teaching Performance Award from the University of Worcester in 2011
- Full PhD Scholarship from the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh in 2006
Grant Proposal Reviews
Reviewer Memberships
- Full Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, since 2021
- Associate Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College 2018 - 2021
Grant Proposal Reviewers
- EPSRC £10 mil Transforming Prediction and Early Diagnosis in the Community program in 2024.
- EPSRC Standard Proposal in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- EPSRC Fellowship Proposal in 2023, 2024
- Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grants in 2024
- Mitacs Accelerate Research Proposal in 2021, 2022, 2024
- Luxembourg National Research Fund CORE Multi-Annual Thematic Research Programme in 2022
- Canadian NSERC Discovery Grants in 2021
- Canadian Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal in 2020
- French National Research Agency (ANR) Project INVISCO in 2018
- Dutch Technology Foundation STW in 2014
- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology in 2012
Advisory Board
- TORUS, Advisory Board Member, since 2024
- Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, Steering Group Member, since 2022
Media Coverage
- Interviewed by Durham's 100 Faces of Science on AI for space research.
- Interviewed by the UK Catapult Network on how AI and computer vision enhance security, 2023
Keynotes & Invited Speakers
- Invited speaker in the AI Knowledge Transfer Roundtable organised by Insights North East, 2025
- Invited speaker in the Healthcare AI Round Table, 2024
- Keynote speaker in the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition 2020
- Invited speaker in Advanced Technology for Health and Care Services by Sunderland City Council, 2019
- Invited speaker in Innovation Showcase Digital by NHS South Tyneside and Sunderland Health Group, 2018
- Invited speaker in the JSPS UK/Japan Symposium on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality 2014
PhD Examinars
- Matthew Kent Myers from Newcastle University in 2024
- Nefeli Andreou from the University of Cyprus in 2024
- Amirhossein Dadashzadeh from the University of Bristol in 2023
- Qian Li from the University of Rennes in 2023
- Qi Feng from Waseda University in 2022
- Maryam Naghizadeh from the University of Bath in 2021
- Naif Alshammari from Durham University in 2021
- Kfir Aberman from Tel Aviv University in 2020
- Twin Karmakharm from the University of Sheffield in 2017
- Ziyun Cai from the University of Sheffield in 2017
- Andreas Stiegler from the University of the West of Scotland in 2017
- Lu Lou from Aberystwyth University in 2015
YouTube Channel
@HubertShum2024
HINT: High-quality INpainting Transformer with Mask-Aware Encoding and Enhanced Attention
@HubertShum2024
RAPiD-Seg: Range-Aware Pointwise Distance Distribution Networks for 3D LiDAR Segmentation
@HubertShum2024
RAPiD-Seg: Range-Aware Pointwise Distance Distribution Networks for 3D LiDAR Segmentation
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