--- title: "Damien Teney · Adelaide University — author profile and papers" description: "Damien Teney, Adelaide University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2024), h-index 22 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damien-teney/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damien-teney/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Damien Teney # Damien Teney Damien Teney has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Anton van den Hengel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anton-van-den-hengel/), [Cheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-li/), [Ian D. Reid](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ian-d-reid/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5067549788) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2130-6650) · [**h-index 22**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5067549788) · [85 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067549788) · [8,933 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067549788&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damien-teney/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 384 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damien-teney/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2029](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/21/#star-2029) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Damien+Teney) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Damien+Teney) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Damien+Teney) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Damien+Teney) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Adelaide** Adelaide · Australia 2016–2026 · 32 papersEmployment 2016–2021 · Senior Research Scientist, Australian Institute for Machine Learning*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-adelaide/) · [🔬**Idiap Research Institute** Martigny-Combe · Switzerland 2021–2026 · 28 papersEmployment since 2021 · Research Scientist & Group Leader, Machine Learning Group*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/) · [🎓**Adelaide University** Adelaide · Australia 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/adelaide-university/) · [🎓**University of Liège** Liège · Belgium 2003–2013 · 7 papersEducation 2003–2007 · B.Sc. in Computer ScienceEducation 2007–2009 · M.Sc. in Computer ScienceEducation 2009–2013 · PhD in Computer Science](https://ror.org/00afp2z80) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2015–2016 · 4 papersEmployment 2015–2016 · Postdoctoral Researcher, Robotics Institute](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of Bath** Bath · United Kingdom 2014–2015 · 2 papersEmployment 2014–2015 · Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bath/) · [🎓**Universität Innsbruck** Innsbruck · Austria 2010–2013Employment 2010–2013 · Visiting Researcher, Intelligent and Interactive Systems Group](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-innsbruck/) 🏛️**University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign** Champaign · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2008Education 2008 · Visiting Student, Department of Computer Science From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Control and Systems Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/control-and-systems-engineering/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damien-teney/year/2024/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damien-teney/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Vision-and-Language Navigation: Interpreting visually-grounded navigation instructions in real environments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anderson-2017-vision-language-navigation-interpreting-visually/)** *(2017 · 1,414 citations)* The paper addresses how an agent can follow free-form spoken-style route directions using only what it sees inside real buildings it has never visited. 2. **[CulturePark: Boosting Cross-cultural Understanding in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-culturepark-boosting-cross-cultural-understanding/)** *(2024 · 70 citations)* Large language models tend to favor Western, English-dominated perspectives because their training data underrepresents other cultures. ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Vision-and-Language Navigation: Interpreting visually-grounded navigation instructions in real environments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anderson-2017-vision-language-navigation-interpreting-visually/) [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/)**Peter Anderson, Qi Wu, Damien Teney, et al.*2017 · 1,414 citations* 2. **[Graph-Structured Representations for Visual Question Answering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2017.344) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Damien Teney, Lingqiao Liu, Anton van den Hengel*2017 · 476 citations* 3. **[Image Retrieval on Real-life Images with Pre-trained Vision-and-Language Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.00213) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Zheyuan Liu et al.*2021 · 257 citations* 4. **[CulturePark: Boosting Cross-cultural Understanding in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-culturepark-boosting-cross-cultural-understanding/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Cheng Li, Damien Teney, Linyi Yang, et al.*2024 · 70 citations* 5. **[Unshuffling Data for Improved Generalization in Visual Question Answering ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.00145) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Damien Teney, Ehsan Abbasnejad, Anton van den Hengel*2021 · 66 citations* 6. **[A Symbolic Framework for Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning and Generalisation with Transformers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.84/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Jordan Meadows et al.*2024 · 14 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anton van den Hengel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anton-van-den-hengel/) - [Cheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-li/) - [Ian D. Reid](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ian-d-reid/) - [Jindong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jindong-wang/) - [Linyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linyi-yang/) - [Mark Johnson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-johnson/) - [Peter Anderson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-anderson/) - [Qi Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-wu/) - [Qingsong Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingsong-wen/) - [Stephen Gould](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-gould/) - [Xing Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xing-xie/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ×2 - [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/): [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/2017/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/) - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 384 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [59 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damien-teney/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026