Angela Dai
adai.bsky.social
Angela Dai
@adai.bsky.social
Associate Professor, 3DAI Lab @ TU Munich
https://www.3dunderstanding.org/
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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.
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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
December 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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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
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
📢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...
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
📢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...
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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📢 Excited to share our latest #ICCV2025 work DiffuMatch: learning spectral diffusion priors for robust non-rigid shape matching! (1/n)
October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
📢 📢 📢 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...
October 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚀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!
September 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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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!
August 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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!
July 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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!
June 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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
June 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Fascinating lessons on 3D reconstruction from Andrea Vedaldi @oxford-vgg.bsky.social at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!
June 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Learning about world models with Gordon Wetzstein at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!
June 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Super cool insights on 4D reconstruction from Qianqian Wang at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!
June 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
How to generate 3D with LLM reasoning by Cordelia Schmid at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!
June 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Kicking off the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social with Katja Schwarz on how to generate 3D with diffusion models!
June 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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...
June 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🚀🚀🚀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
SpAItial AI: Building Spatial Foundation Models
YouTube video by SpAItial AI
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of models
One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of models | TechCrunch
One of Europe’s most prominent AI researchers, Matthias Niessner, is now the CEO of SpAItial, a startup working on spatial foundation models.
techcrunch.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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 :)
May 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Awesome look into the future of humanoid robots and what we can learn from character animation from Karen Liu’s keynote at #Eurographics2025!
May 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Amazing keynote by Alyosha Efros on the role of data in visual computing at #Eurographics2025!

Thought-provoking insights from generative models to 3D perception :)
May 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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!
May 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📢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
May 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM