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 Responsible AI for Video Understanding Speaker (s):
Hubert Shum
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Durham University
| Date: Time: Venue: | | 22 July 2025, Tuesday 4:00pm – 5:00pm School of Computing &
Information Systems 1 (SCIS 1)
Level 4, Meeting Room 4-4
Singapore Management University
80 Stamford Road,
Singapore 178902 Please register by 20 July 2025.  |
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About the Talk Understanding videos is a significant challenge due to their high dimensionality and the entangled nature of motion and structure. While AI has advanced video analysis considerably, applying it to real-world serious applications, particularly those involving human beings, requires careful consideration of how AI can align with human values and expectations, i.e., making AI “responsible”. In this talk, I will introduce our approach to responsible AI for video understanding, focusing on the integration of high-level geometric features – such as bounding boxes and human skeletal representations – to reduce computational complexity, improve model generalizability, and facilitate the identification of relevant patterns. Using case studies in movement disorder diagnosis, including Parkinson’s disease and cerebral palsy, I will demonstrate how these representations enable models to detect clinically relevant patterns while aligning with human-centred values. I will further discuss how principles of transparency, privacy, and fairness can be embedded into spatial-temporal systems to ensure that AI-driven decisions are trustworthy and ethically sound. About the Speaker Prof. Hubert P. H. Shum (http://hubertshum.com) is a Professor of Visual Computing and the Director of Research of the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, specialising in modelling spatio-temporal information with responsible AI. He has authored over 200 research publications in the fields of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics and AI in Healthcare, underpinned by Responsible AI designs and algorithms. His work has been featured in leading venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, MICCAI, IEEE TVCG and IEEE TIP. His research is fundamental to many disciplines, facilitating him to engage in multidisciplinary research related to healthcare, space technology, art, autonomous vehicles and robotics. He is a Co-Founder and the Co-Director of Durham University Space Research Centre, a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, and a Steering Group Member of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture. To develop his team, he has led research projects as the Principal Investigator awarded by EPSRC, the Ministry of Defence, the Royal Society and Innovate UK. He has also been a Co-Investigator in NortHFutures, a £4.17 mil EPSRC project to establish a new digital health hub in North East England. To engage the academic and industrial networks, he has chaired international conferences such as Pacific Graphics, BMVC, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics SCA and ACM SIGGRAPH MIG. |
