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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚀We have PhD openings in my lab! 3D got pretty interesting :) Generation is getting better, which makes real scenes more interesting: things get used, opened, moved, etc We want to understand that in 3D: function, dynamics, physics 👉apply 3dunderstanding.org/openings.html or via ELLIS

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

📢WorldMesh is accepted to #ECCV2026, and we're releasing the code today! 🎉 Led by Manuel Schneider: navigable, multi-room 3D scenes from a text prompt, with a mesh scaffold conditioning image diffusion for global consistency + photorealistic detail. 👇 t.co/8fXCl2flIu

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📢UnfoldArt recovers articulated 3D objects from image or text! Amine Boudjoghra uses 🤖multi-agent reasoning for articulation +🎥 video priors for high-fidelity geometry & interiors → Get interactable URDFs for furniture, helicopters, humanoids, & more! 👉https://aminebdj.github.io/unfoldart/

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Check out our #ECCV2026 work on visibility-guided flow matching for scan completion, mesh-guided 3d world generation, artist-like 3d mesh generation, & agentic 3D world synthesis! Congrats Quan Meng, Manuel Schneider, Haoxuan Li, Ziya Erkoc for amazing work :)

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Come by our ScanNet++ workshop at #CVPR June 3 in 710, 1:00pm onwards! 5 exciting keynotes on world models, NVS & 3D gen+perception and more, from Andrea Tagliasacchi, David Novotny, Or Litany, Peter Hedman, Deva Ramanan, and talks from benchmark winners! Check it out: t.co/DtU3Qg3jqd

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Excited to share HOI-PAGE, to appear at #ICML2026! 🚀 @craigleili.bsky.social generates 4D human-object interactions zero-shot from text A part-affordance graph grounds interactions via LLM+video priors, enabling complex multi-person, multi-object interactions 👉 craigleili.github.io/projects/hoi...

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

📢Diff3r: fast feed-forward 3DGS + per-scene optimization Yueh-Cheng Liu predicts optimization-ready 3DGS init end to end, computing implicit gradients via Implicit Function Theorem + Gauss-Newton approximation for fast & stable results Check it out: liu115.github.io/diff3r

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

📢Seen2Scene Real-world 3D is incomplete, typically requiring training on synthetic scene data. Quan Meng introduces visibility-guided flow matching, enabling training on real partial scans for scan completion & text-to-3D scene generation! Check it out: quan-meng.github.io/projects/see...

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📢Lookalike3D: Seeing Double in 3D @cyeshwanth.bsky.social enables holistic, instance-consistent 3D object reconstruction & part segmentation by detecting identical and near-identical objects from multiview images. Built on a dataset of 76k curated object pairs cy94.github.io/lookalike3d/

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Image & video synthesis struggle with the scale of truly large 3D scenes. Manuel Schneider presents a geometry-first approach: - geometric structure first: mesh scaffold defining the scene - then appearance: mesh-conditioned image generation Check it out: mschneider456.github.io/world-mesh/

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CVMP @cvmp.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The first keynote today at #CVMP2025 is by Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social from 3DAI Lab at TU Munich "Can Transformers speak geometry?" There are lots of different 3D representations we use in learning but industry widely uses meshes.

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CVMP @cvmp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

And four fantastic keynotes from Yi-Zhe Song @peoplecentredai.bsky.social, Christian Richardt @cr333.bsky.social , Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social , and Peter Hedman @peterhedman.bsky.social #CVMP2025

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CVMP @cvmp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

And that's a start 🤩 We kick off the 22nd ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production at BFI Southbank in London Where industry and academia meet 🤝🎬 #CVMP2025 #BFI #BFISouthbank

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

📢ProcGen3D: Learning Neural Procedural Graphs for Image-to-3D Reconstruction Xinyi Zhang learns neural procedural graphs to generate high-fidelity 3D - MCTS-guided sampling maintains consistency with the input image, even from real images! Check it out: xzhang-t.github.io/project/Proc...

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

📢New in ScanNet++: High-Res 360° Panos! Chandan Yeshwanth and Yueh-Cheng Liu have added pano captures for 956 ScanNet++ scenes, fully aligned with the 3D meshes, DSLR, and iPhone data - multiple panos per scene Check it out: Docs kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/do... Code github.com/scannetpp/sc...

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daidedou.bsky.social @daidedou.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

📢 Excited to share our latest #ICCV2025 work DiffuMatch: learning spectral diffusion priors for robust non-rigid shape matching! (1/n)

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

📢 📢 📢 We've released the ScanNet++ Novel View Synthesis Benchmark for iPhone data! Test your models on RGBD video featuring real-world challenges like exposure changes & motion blur! Download the newest iPhone NVS test split and submit your results! ⬇️ scannetpp.mlsg.cit.tum.de/scannetpp/be...

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🚀We have PhD openings in my lab at TU Munich! Explore 3D/4D reconstruction & generation, semantic & functional understanding, and more - at the intersection of graphics, vision, and machine learning. 💼PhDs are 100% E13 positions 👉Apply: 3dunderstanding.org/openings.html or via ELLIS!

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Lei Li @craigleili.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Excited to join @uvadatascience.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! Deeply grateful to my advisors @adai.bsky.social, Maks Ovsjanikov, Hongbo Fu, and Chiew-Lan Tai for their unwavering support. 📣We are recruiting PhD students and postdocs to work on #SpatialAI. Flyer below with details!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Super excited to have @phillipisola.bsky.social give a guest lecture in our Introduction to Deep Learning course at TU Munich on representations learned by neural networks!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Check out our #ICCV2025 work on functional 3d scan editing, learning to optimize, multi-level 3d captioning, interactive mesh editing, audio-driven avatars, & shape matching! Congrats to Amine, Yueh-Cheng, @cyeshwanth.bsky.social, Haoxuan, Shivangi, and Emery for their amazing work!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Check out Xinyi’s super cool work on 4D generative modeling with dictionary neural fields - also at poster 12 in poster session 6 today! #cvpr2025

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Fascinating lessons on 3D reconstruction from Andrea Vedaldi @oxford-vgg.bsky.social at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Learning about world models with Gordon Wetzstein at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Super cool insights on 4D reconstruction from Qianqian Wang at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

How to generate 3D with LLM reasoning by Cordelia Schmid at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Kicking off the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social with Katja Schwarz on how to generate 3D with diffusion models!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Check out the ScanNet++ workshop @CVPR on June 12 in 211 from 8:50am! Exciting keynotes on state-of-the-art NVS & 3D understanding from Andrea Vedaldi, Cordelia Schmid, Gordon Wetzstein, Katja Schwarz, Qianqian Wang, and leading methods on the benchmark! kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/cv...

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Matthias Niessner @niessner.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🚀🚀🚀Announcing our $13M funding round to build the next generation of AI: 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 that can generate entire 3D environments anchored in space & time. 🚀🚀🚀 Interested? Join our world-class team: 🌍 spaitial.ai youtu.be/FiGX82RUz8U

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SpAItial AI: Building Spatial Foundation Models

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Brilliant insights from @michael-j-black.bsky.social on the importance of data and 3D+ for 4D foundation models that understand humans, and the future of embodied intelligence in the last keynote talk of #Eurographics2025! See you next year in Aachen :)

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Awesome look into the future of humanoid robots and what we can learn from character animation from Karen Liu’s keynote at #Eurographics2025!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Amazing keynote by Alyosha Efros on the role of data in visual computing at #Eurographics2025! Thought-provoking insights from generative models to 3D perception :)

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

What an amazing start to our #Eurographics2025 keynotes from @justinmsolomon.bsky.social on optimization for geometry processing - lots of useful optimization tools, and so many more interesting challenges yet to be solved!

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

📢𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐒𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭: Fast 3D Surface Reconstruction via Learned Gaussian Initialization Yueh-Cheng Liu learns 2DGS initialization, densification, and optimization priors from ScanNet++ => fast & accurate reconstruction! Project: liu115.github.io/quicksplat w/ Lukas Höllein and @niessner.bsky.social

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🚀Join the 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐍𝐞𝐭++ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 @ CVPR 2025! Think your method can handle large-scale 3D scenes? Put it to the test: kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/cv... Updates: ✅ Preprocessed, undistorted DSLR images ✅ 3DGS demo: github.com/scannetpp/3D... by Yueh-Cheng Liu, @cyeshwanth.bsky.social

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📢𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 is almost around the corner - immerse yourself in computer graphics innovation in London, May 12-16! Register now: eg25.cs.ucl.ac.uk/main/registr... See you in London! 👋

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

📢ScanEdit: Hierarchically-Guided Functional 3D Scan Editing Edit complex, real-world 3D scans with text -- Amine Boudjoghra combines LLM reasoning with geometric optimization to produce physically plausible, instruction-aligned scene edits Check it out: aminebdj.github.io/scanedit/ w/ Ivan Laptev

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

📢ExCap3D: Multilevel Captioning of Objects in 3D Scenes @cyeshwanth.bsky.social generates consistent object and part-level descriptions of objects in 3D scenes, and introduces a new dataset with 190k captions for 34k ScanNet++ objects. Project: cy94.github.io/excap3d w/ David Rozenberszki

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Matthias Niessner @niessner.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Tomorrow in our TUM AI - Lecture Series we'll have Andrea Tagliasacchi (@taiyasaki.bsky.social), SFU. He'll talk about "𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐚𝐦: 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠". Live Stream: youtube.com/live/1u7ahb9... 5pm GMT+1 / 9am PST (Mon Mar 24th)

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TUM AI Lecture Series - Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing (Andrea Tagliasacchi)

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Matthias Niessner @niessner.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

📢Animating the Uncaptured 📢 We animate 3D humanoid meshes using video diffusion priors given a text prompt. 🎥https://youtu.be/_YL1J_V3smI 🌍https://marcb.pro/atu Realistic motion generation for 3D characters - without motion capture! 🚀 Great work by Marc Benedí, @adai.bsky.social

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Matthias Niessner @niessner.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

📢MeshPad: Interactive Sketch-Conditioned Artist-Designed Mesh Generation and Editing📢 Users can interactively design 3D models just from a sketch-based interface - check it out! We break down the design process into addition with an autoregressive generator and deletion operations by a classifier.

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Matthias Niessner @niessner.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Tomorrow in our TUM AI - Lecture Series we'll have none other than Saining Xie (@saining.bsky.social), NYU He'll talk about "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: Why visual representation still matters". Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/hnu-mRL... 5pm GMT+1 / 9am PST (Mon Mar 17th)

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TUM AI Lecture Series - The multimodal future: Why visual representation still matters (Saining Xie)

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🚀 The #Eurographics2025 full papers program is now online! 🎉 Get ready for an exciting lineup of cutting-edge research in computer graphics! 🔎 Check it out, and register now to join us in London, May 12-16! eg25.cs.ucl.ac.uk/main/talks.h...

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Check out our #CVPR2025 papers on articulated mesh generation, 4d shape generation with dictionary neural fields, large-scale 3d scene generation and editing, and 3d editing! Congrats to Daoyi Gao, Xinyi Zhang, Alexey Bokhovkin, Quan Meng, and Ziya Erkoc for their amazing work!

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Chris Offner @chrisoffner3d.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

ETH starts a series of exciting guest talks on Robotics, Vision, and Controls this week. Tomorrow at 12:00 Zurich time, @adai.bsky.social from TU Munich will give a talk titled "From Quantity to Quality for 3D Perception." robotics-talks.com #robotics

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Matthias Niessner @niessner.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Tomorrow in our TUM AI - Lecture Series with none other than Robin Rombach, CEO Black Forest Labs. He'll talk about "𝐅𝐋𝐔𝐗: Flow Matching for Content Creation at Scale". Live stream: youtube.com/live/nrKKLJX... 6pm GMT+1 / 9am PST (Mon Feb 17rd)

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TUM AI Lecture Series - FLUX: Flow Matching for Content Creation at Scale (Robin Rombach)

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Lingjie Liu @lingjieliu.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

📢 Calling all PhD students in Computer Graphics! The #Eurographics2025 Doctoral Consortium deadline is just one week away (Feb 13)! Don't miss this opportunity to present your research, receive expert feedback, and connect with fellow PhD students. 📝 Apply now: eg25.cs.ucl.ac.uk/main/callfor...

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Excited to bring back the 2nd ScanNet++ Novel View Synthesis and 3D Semantic Understanding Challenge at #CVPR 2025! Submit to our new benchmark, now with over 1000 high-fidelity scans of real-world scenes: kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/ Check it out: kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/cv...

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Didn't quite make it to SIGGRAPH? Consider submitting to SGP, the abstract deadline is tomorrow: sgp2025.my.canva.site/submit-page-...

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