US StanfordComputer Science Dec 8
Leonidas Guibas Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Studies 3D geometric data analysis, shape understanding and 3D scene generation.
2026 DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration ICRA 2026 Dynamic Reflections: Probing Video Representations with Text Alignment ICLR 102 T1114 papersGroup size not listed DE TUMDepartment of Computer Science
Researches 3D digitization at the intersection of graphics, vision and AI, including 3D reconstruction from RGB-D video and photorealistic digital humans.
2026 Animating the Uncaptured: Humanoid Mesh Animation with Video Diffusion Models ICLR 2026 Diff3R: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting with Uncertainty-aware Differentiable Optimization NeurIPS 72 T177 papers18 membersCN TsinghuaDepartment of Automation Feb 28
Works on 3D vision, computational photography, digital human reconstruction and synthesis, and markerless motion capture.
2026 4DEquine: Disentangling Motion and Appearance for 4D Equine Reconstruction from Monocular Video CVPR 2026 AniMer+: Unified Pose and Shape Estimation Across Mammalia and Aves via Family-Aware Transformer TPAMI 68 T188 papersGroup size not listed GB OxfordDepartment of Computer Science Jan 7
Christian Rupprecht Associate Professor of Computer Science Works on computer vision, including 3D reconstruction, scene-scale 3D generation and learning with little supervision.
2026 LagerNVS: Latent Geometry for Fully Neural Real-time Novel View Synthesis CVPR 2026 LitePT: Lighter Yet Stronger Point Transformer CVPR 56 T166 papers20 members9 alumniHK CUHKDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering Dec 1
Works on 3D vision, 3D generation and reconstruction, computer graphics and human-computer interaction.
2026 ATOM: Geometry-Aware Microgesture Detection towards Object-Agnostic Tangible Interaction UIST 2026 EgoHandICL: Egocentric 3D Hand Reconstruction with In-Context Learning ICLR 53 T179 papers15 members37 alumniDE TUMDepartment of Computer Science
Works on 3D scene understanding and reconstruction from commodity RGB-D data, using generative 3D deep learning to create semantically grounded 3D environments.
2026 Animating the Uncaptured: Humanoid Mesh Animation with Video Diffusion Models ICLR 2026 Diff3R: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting with Uncertainty-aware Differentiable Optimization NeurIPS 44 T145 papers7 membersCN SJTUSchool of Computer Science May 31
Bo Chen Tenured Track Associate Professor Builds networked and machine learning systems for immersive computing, with device-edge-cloud collaboration for visual, XR and 3D content applications.
2026 DocRetriever: A Plug-and-Play Framework for Multimodal Document Retrieval with Comprehensive Benchmark KDD 2026 Modular Representation Compression: Adapting LLM Representations for Efficient and Effective Recommendation SIGIR 35 T152 papersGroup size not listed CN SJTUSchool of Computer Science May 31
Yichao Yan Tenured Track Associate Professor Works on 3D vision and digital humans, including avatar generation.
2026 Dens3r: A Foundation Model for 3D Geometry Prediction ICLR 2026 MoRE: 3D Visual Geometry Reconstruction Meets Mixture-of-Experts CVPR 27 T141 papersGroup size not listed CN ZhejiangCollege of Information Science and Electronic Engineering (ISEE) Feb 28
Leads the X-D Lab on 3D scene representation, neural rendering and 3D reconstruction for computer vision.
2026 Gen3R: 3D Scene Generation Meets Feed-Forward Reconstruction CVPR 2026 InstructVLA: Vision-Language-Action Instruction Tuning from Understanding to Manipulation ICLR 26 T132 papers12 members5 alumniUS CMUMachine Learning Department Dec 9
Studies computer vision and robot learning, including 3D scene understanding and embodied agents.
2026 Dex4D: Task-Agnostic Point Track Policy for Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation CoRL 2026 GeomVLA: Unifying Scene, Motion, and Action in 3D CoRL 25 T128 papers12 members25 alumniCN ZhejiangSchool of Software Technology Feb 28
Sida Peng Tenure-track Assistant Professor Works on 3D reconstruction, neural rendering and 3D generation.
2026 GVHMR: Gravity-View Coordinates for Global Human Motion Recovery from Monocular Videos TPAMI 2026 Habitat-GS: A High-Fidelity Navigation Simulator with Dynamic Gaussian Splatting ECCV 21 T132 papersGroup size not listed US UT AustinElectrical and Computer Engineering Dec 15
Directs the Spatial Physical Intelligence Lab, working on 3D generative modeling, neural fields and geometry processing.
2026 Functional Attention: From Pairwise Affinities to Functional Correspondences ICML 2026 MeshFlow: Mesh Generation with Equivariant Flow Matching SIGGRAPH 19 T122 papers3 membersGB CambridgeComputer Science and Technology Dec 8
Leads the Core Lab on algorithms and systems in computer graphics, vision and machine learning that build digital representations of the world, such as neural…
2026 Features Emerge as Discrete States: The First Application of SAEs to 3D Representations ICLR 2026 Feed-Forward Bullet-Time Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes from Monocular Videos NeurIPS 17 T131 papers9 members5 alumniCN ZhejiangCollege of Computer Science and Technology Feb 28
Works on 3D shape analysis, geometric modeling and sketch-based content creation.
2026 3DTeethSAM: Taming SAM2 for 3D Teeth Segmentation AAAI 2026 EchoAvatar: Real-time Generative Avatar Animation from Audio Streams SIGGRAPH 17 T131 papersGroup size not listed CN ZhejiangCollege of Computer Science and Technology Feb 28
Tianjia Shao Tenured Associate Professor Works on 3D content creation, digital human modeling and 3D AIGC.
2026 ElastoGen: 4D Generative Elastodynamics AAAI 2026 High-Fidelity Mobile Avatars with Pruned Local Blendshapes CVPR 16 T135 papersGroup size not listed US NYUComputer Science (Courant) Dec 12
David Fouhey Institute Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Works on computer vision for understanding 3D scenes and human interaction with objects, and applies vision to scientific data such as solar physics.
2025 Dynamic Camera Poses and Where to Find Them CVPR 2025 Stereo4D: Learning How Things Move in 3D from Internet Stereo Videos CVPR 11 T119 papers5 members8 alumniGB OxfordDepartment of Computer Science Jan 7
Ronald Clark Associate Professor of Computer Science Works at the intersection of 3D computer vision and graphics, including neural rendering, dense visual SLAM and 3D scene understanding.
2026 A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities Nature 2026 Functional Attention: From Pairwise Affinities to Functional Correspondences ICML 11 T120 papers7 members4 alumniCN SJTUSchool of Artificial Intelligence May 31
Works on computer vision, computer graphics and cross-modal understanding and generation, including 3D scene reconstruction.
2026 Honey, I Shrunk the Arc de Triomphe! ECCV 2026 Long-Tail Internet Photo Reconstruction CVPR 11 T111 papersGroup size not listed SG NTUCollege of Computing and Data Science
Xingang Pan Nanyang Assistant Professor Works on generative AI, computer vision and graphics, including controllable image and 3D generation.
2026 4RC: 4D Reconstruction via Conditional Querying Anytime and Anywhere International Conference on Machine Learning ( ICML ) 2026 BokehDepth: Enhancing Monocular Depth Estimation through Bokeh Generation International Conference on Machine Learning ( ICML ) 9 T141 papers13 members1 alumnusCH ETH ZurichComputer Science (D-INFK)
Researches visual analytics and human-AI collaboration, building interactive visualization tools that explain and steer language models and support text…
2026 PleaSQLarify: Visual Pragmatic Repair for Natural Language Database Querying CHI 2026 A Unified Intelligence-Augmented Framework for Building Audits via Physical and Virtual Inspection Expert Systems with Applications 6 T157 papers9 members3 alumni