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Angela Dai

@adai.bsky.social

Associate Professor, 3DAI Lab @ TU Munich https://www.3dunderstanding.org/

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๐Ÿ“ข Excited to share our latest #ICCV2025 work DiffuMatch: learning spectral diffusion priors for robust non-rigid shape matching! (1/n)

16.10.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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GitHub - scannetpp/scannetpp: [ICCV 2023 Oral] ScanNet++: A High-Fidelity Dataset of 3D Indoor Scenes [ICCV 2023 Oral] ScanNet++: A High-Fidelity Dataset of 3D Indoor Scenes - scannetpp/scannetpp

for more documentation: github.com/scannetpp/sc...

Huge thanks to Yueh-Cheng Liu, as well as Chandan Yeshwanth and @niessner.bsky.social for their incredible work!

13.10.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ข ๐Ÿ“ข ๐Ÿ“ข 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! โฌ‡๏ธ
scannetpp.mlsg.cit.tum.de/scannetpp/be...

13.10.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿš€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.

๐Ÿ’ผPhDs are 100% E13 positions
๐Ÿ‘‰Apply: 3dunderstanding.org/openings.html or via ELLIS!

30.09.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

๐Ÿ“ฃWe are recruiting PhD students and postdocs to work on #SpatialAI. Flyer below with details!

29.08.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!

14.07.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!

30.06.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

15.06.2025 18:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fascinating lessons on 3D reconstruction from Andrea Vedaldi @oxford-vgg.bsky.social at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!

12.06.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Learning about world models with Gordon Wetzstein at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!

12.06.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Super cool insights on 4D reconstruction from Qianqian Wang at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!

12.06.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How to generate 3D with LLM reasoning by Cordelia Schmid at the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social!

12.06.2025 14:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kicking off the ScanNet++ workshop @cvprconference.bsky.social with Katja Schwarz on how to generate 3D with diffusion models!

12.06.2025 14:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

08.06.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
SpAItial AI: Building Spatial Foundation Models
YouTube video by SpAItial AI SpAItial AI: Building Spatial Foundation Models

๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€Announcing our $13M funding round to build the next generation of AI: ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Œ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ that can generate entire 3D environments anchored in space & time. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€

Interested? Join our world-class team:
๐ŸŒ spaitial.ai

youtu.be/FiGX82RUz8U

27.05.2025 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One of Europeโ€™s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the โ€˜holy grailโ€™ of models | TechCrunch One of Europeโ€™s most prominent AI researchers, Matthias Niessner, is now the CEO of SpAItial, a startup working on spatial foundation models.

One of Europeโ€™s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the โ€˜holy grailโ€™ of models

27.05.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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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 :)

16.05.2025 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Awesome look into the future of humanoid robots and what we can learn from character animation from Karen Liuโ€™s keynote at #Eurographics2025!

15.05.2025 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Amazing keynote by Alyosha Efros on the role of data in visual computing at #Eurographics2025!

Thought-provoking insights from generative models to 3D perception :)

14.05.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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!

13.05.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ข๐๐ฎ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐’๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ: 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 Hรถllein and @niessner.bsky.social

12.05.2025 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿš€Join the ๐’๐œ๐š๐ง๐๐ž๐ญ++ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž @ CVPR 2025!
Think your method can handle large-scale 3D scenes?
Put it to the test:
kaldir.vc.in.tum.de/scannetpp/cv...

Updates:
โœ… Preprocessed, undistorted DSLR images
โœ… 3DGS demo: github.com/scannetpp/3D...

by Yueh-Cheng Liu, @cyeshwanth.bsky.social

01.05.2025 12:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ข๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ 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! ๐Ÿ‘‹

28.04.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ขScanEdit: 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

22.04.2025 09:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ขExCap3D: 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

24.03.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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TUM AI Lecture Series - Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing (Andrea Tagliasacchi) YouTube video by Matthias Niessner

Tomorrow in our TUM AI - Lecture Series we'll have Andrea Tagliasacchi (@taiyasaki.bsky.social), SFU.

He'll talk about "๐‘๐š๐๐ข๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐…๐จ๐š๐ฆ: ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฅ-๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐‘๐š๐ฒ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ข๐ง๐ ".

Live Stream: youtube.com/live/1u7ahb9...

5pm GMT+1 / 9am PST (Mon Mar 24th)

23.03.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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๐Ÿ“ขAnimating the Uncaptured ๐Ÿ“ข

We animate 3D humanoid meshes using video diffusion priors given a text prompt.

๐ŸŽฅhttps://youtu.be/_YL1J_V3smI
๐ŸŒhttps://marcb.pro/atu

Realistic motion generation for 3D characters - without motion capture! ๐Ÿš€

Great work by Marc Benedรญ, @adai.bsky.social

21.03.2025 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ขMeshPad: Interactive Sketch-Conditioned Artist-Designed Mesh Generation and Editing๐Ÿ“ข

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.

19.03.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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TUM AI Lecture Series - The multimodal future: Why visual representation still matters (Saining Xie) YouTube video by Matthias Niessner

Tomorrow in our TUM AI - Lecture Series we'll have none other than Saining Xie (@saining.bsky.social), NYU

He'll talk about "๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐จ๐๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž: Why visual representation still matters".

Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/hnu-mRL...
5pm GMT+1 / 9am PST (Mon Mar 17th)

16.03.2025 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿš€ The #Eurographics2025 full papers program is now online! ๐ŸŽ‰
Get ready for an exciting lineup of cutting-edge research in computer graphics!

๐Ÿ”Ž Check it out, and register now to join us in London, May 12-16!
eg25.cs.ucl.ac.uk/main/talks.h...

13.03.2025 12:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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