We're a computer graphics lab at UChicago led by Rana Hanocka, working at the intersection of 3D graphics and deep learning.

news & posts

  1. 3DL welcomes new Ph.D. student Jinfan Zhou!

  2. WIR3D & Reusing Computation accepted to ICCV 2025. Congrats to Richard & Dale!

  3. 3DL @ CVPR 2025 presenting Geometry in Style; Rana presents at workshops

  4. Rana delivers keynote at GMP 2025

  5. 3DL organizes Great Lakes Graphics 2025

  6. MeshUp wins Best Paper Honorable Mention at 3DV 2025. Congrats to Brian!

  7. Geometry in Style accepted to CVPR 2025. Congrats to Nam Anh!

  8. 3DL @ SIGGRAPH Asia in Tokyo, presenting iSeg

  9. Justin Solomon and his group visit 3DL

  10. Dale interns at Adobe Research

  11. Dale wins NSF GRFP, a prestigious NSF award

  12. Jack receives CRA Undergraduate Research Awards Honorable Mention

  13. Rana presenting at 4 workshops @ ICCV 2023 in Paris

  14. 3DL showcases research at South Side Science Festival

  15. 3DL welcomes new Ph.D. student Nam Anh Dinh!

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  16. 3DL @ SIGGRAPH 2023 in LA, presenting TextDeformer

  17. Richard interns @ Adobe Research in Seattle

  18. Oded visits 3DL, kicking off collaborations

  19. 3DL @ CVPR 2023 in Vancouver, presenting 3D Highlighter & DA Wand

  20. Rana awarded two NSF Grants!

  21. 3DL @ MSI for National Robotics Week

  22. 3D Highlighter & DA Wand accepted to CVPR 2023. Congrats to Dale and Richard!

  23. Peizhuo visits 3DL

  24. 3DL & PALS hackathon on 3D representations

  25. Noam visits 3DL

  26. Itai visits 3DL

  27. Rana gives keynote @ Pacific Graphics 2022, Kyoto

  28. TetGAN accepted to BMVC. Congrats to Will!

  29. Welcome new Ph.D. students Dale & Richard!

  30. 3DL @ SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, presenting 2 papers

  31. 3DL welcomes Itai!

  32. 3DL @ CVPR 2022 in New Orleans, presenting Text2Mesh

  33. 3DL & PALS hackathon on diffusion models

  34. Andy Yang wins Favorite Animation! UChicago Spring 2022 Graphics Animation-Off

  35. GANimator accepted to SIGGRAPH 2022. Congrats to Peizhuo and Jack!

  36. Text2Mesh accepted to CVPR 2022. Congrats to Oscar, Roi, and Richard!

  37. 3DL accepting applications for PhD students. Apply by Dec 15

  38. 3DL joins TTIC hackathon

  39. Kfir visits 3DL

  40. 3D Geometry Processing & Computer Vision: new topics course at UChicago

  41. 3DL is born!

people

  1. PI

    Rana Hanocka

  2. Postdoc

    Itai Lang

  3. PhD

    Richard Liu

  4. PhD

    Dale Decatur

  5. PhD

    Nam Anh Dinh

  6. PhD

    Jinfan Zhou

  7. Masters

    Jacob Serfaty

  8. Masters

    Sining Lu

  9. Undergrad

    Jonathan Li

  10. Undergrad

    Albert Seo

  11. Undergrad

    Guan Chen

Alumni

  1. Jack Zhang

    Undergrad (2021-2024)
    PhD student @ Brown

  2. Brian Kim

    Undergrad (2022-2025)
    PhD student @ Columbia

  3. Oscar Michel

    Undergrad (2021-2022)
    Allen Institute for AI
    PhD student @ NYU

  4. Ofek Pearl

    Masters (2021-2023)
    Amazon

  5. Kate Hu

    Undergrad (2021-2022)
    MS at CMU
    Google

  6. April Wang

    Researcher (2021-2022)
    Gap Inc

  7. Meitar Shechter

    Researcher (2021-2022)
    AI Researcher @ Leo AI

  8. Tyler Poon

    Undergrad (2021-2022)
    NVIDIA

  9. Daniel Fu

    Undergrad (2024-2025)
    PhD @ Stanford

  10. Vincent LaGrassa

    Undergrad (2021-2022)
    Software Dev @ NWU

  11. Gal Metzer

    Undergrad (2019-2022)
    PhD @ TAU

  12. Roi Bar-On

    Undergrad (2019-2022)
    MS @ TAU

  13. Douglas Williams

    Undergrad (2023-2024)
    PreDoc @ Harris

  14. Roma Bhattacharjee

    Researcher (2022-2023)
    SWE @ Citadel

  15. Justin Kleidermacher

    Researcher (2022-2024)
    Google

  16. Sudarshan Babu

    PhD Collaborator (2023-2024)
    AI Fellow @ Biohub

courses

  1. CMSC 23700: Introduction to Computer Graphics

  2. CMSC 35401: Topics in Machine Learning - 3D Geometry Processing & Computer Vision with Deep Neural Networks

  3. CMSC 23700: Introduction to Computer Graphics

  4. CMSC 23700: Introduction to Computer Graphics

research

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    LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers

    Sining Lu*, Guan Chen*, Nam Anh Dinh, Itai Lang, Ari Holtzman, and Rana Hanocka
    ArXiv 2025
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    WIR3D: Visually-Informed and Geometry-Aware 3D Shape Abstraction

    Richard Liu, Daniel Fu, Noah Tan, Itai Lang, and Rana Hanocka
    ICCV 2025 (Oral)
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    Reusing Computation in Text‑to‑Image Diffusion for Efficient Generation of Image Sets

    Dale Decatur, Thibault Groueix, Yifan Wang, Rana Hanocka, Vova Kim, and Matheus Gadelha
    ICCV 2025
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    Geometry in Style: 3D Stylization via Surface Normal Deformation

    Nam Anh Dinh, Itai Lang, Hyunwoo Kim, Oded Stein, and Rana Hanocka
    CVPR 2025
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    iSeg: Interactive 3D Segmentation via Interactive Attention

    Itai Lang*, Fei Xu*, Dale Decatur, Sudarshan Babu, and Rana Hanocka
    SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
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    MeshUp: Multi-Target Mesh Deformation via Blended Score Distillation

    Hyunwoo Kim, Itai Lang, Thibault Groueix, Noam Aigerman, Vladimir G. Kim, and Rana Hanocka
    3DV 2025
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    TEDi: Temporally-Entangled Diffusion for Motion Synthesis

    Zihan Zhang, Richard Liu, Kfir Aberman, and Rana Hanocka
    SIGGRAPH 2024
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    HaLo-NeRF: Learning Geometry-Guided Semantics for Exploring Unconstrained Photo Collections

    Chen Dudai*, Morris Alper*, Hana Bezalel, Rana Hanocka, Itai Lang, and Hadar Averbuch-Elor
    Eurographics 2024
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    HyperFields: Towards Zero-Shot Generation of NeRFs from Text

    Sudarshan Babu*, Richard Liu*, Avery Zhou*, Michael Maire, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Rana Hanocka
    ICML 2024
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    3D Paintbrush: Local Stylization of 3D Shapes with Cascaded Score Distillation

    Dale Decatur, Itai Lang, Kfir Aberman, and Rana Hanocka
    CVPR 2024
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    LoopDraw: a Loop-Based Autoregressive Model for Shape Synthesis and Editing

    Nam Anh Dinh, Haochen Wang, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Rana Hanocka
    CVPRW 2024
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    ShapeSonic: Sonifying Fingertip Interactions for Non-Visual Virtual Shape Perception

    Jialin Huang, Rana Hanocka, Alexa Siu, and Yotam Gingold
    SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
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    TextDeformer: Geometry Manipulation using Text Guidance

    William Gao, Noam Aigerman, Thibault Groueix, Vladimir G. Kim, and Rana Hanocka
    SIGGRAPH 2023
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    DA Wand: Distortion-Aware Selection using Neural Mesh Parameterization

    Richard Liu, Noam Aigerman, Vladimir G. Kim, and Rana Hanocka
    CVPR 2023
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    3D Highlighter: Localizing Regions on 3D Shapes via Text Descriptions

    Dale Decatur, Itai Lang, and Rana Hanocka
    CVPR 2023
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    GeoCode: Interpretable Shape Programs

    Ofek Pearl, Itai Lang, Yuhua Hu, Raymond A. Yeh, and Rana Hanocka
    CGF 2025
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    GLAZE: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models

    Shawn Shan, Jenna Cryan, Emily Wenger, Haitao Zheng, Rana Hanocka, Ben Y. Zhao
    USENIX 2023 (Distinguished Paper Award)
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    TetGAN: A Convolutional Neural Network for Tetrahedral Mesh Generation

    William Gao, April Wang, Gal Metzer, Raymond A. Yeh, and Rana Hanocka
    BMVC 2022 (Oral)
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    GANimator: Neural Motion Synthesis from a Single Sequence

    Peizhuo Li, Kfir Aberman, Zihan Zhang, Rana Hanocka and Olga Sorkine-Hornung
    SIGGRAPH 2022
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    Text2Mesh: Text-Driven Neural Stylization for Meshes

    Oscar Michel*, Roi Bar-On*, Richard Liu*, Sagie Benaim, and Rana Hanocka (* equal contribution)
    CVPR 2022 (Oral)
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    The Neurally-Guided Shape Parser: Grammar-based Labeling of 3D Shape Regions with Approximate Inference

    Russel K. Jones, Aalia Habib, Rana Hanocka, and Daniel Ritchie
    CVPR 2022
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    Z2P: Instant Visualization of Point Clouds

    Gal Metzer, Rana Hanocka, Raja Giryes, Niloy J. Mitra, and Daniel Cohen-Or
    Eurographics 2022
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    NeuralMLS: Geometry-Aware Control Point Deformation

    Meitar Shechter, Rana Hanocka, Gal Metzer, Raja Giryes, and Daniel Cohen-Or
    Eurographics Short Paper 2022
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    Orienting Point Clouds With Dipole Propagation

    Gal Metzer, Rana Hanocka, Denis Zorin, Raja Giryes, Daniele Panozzo, and Daniel Cohen-Or
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) 2021
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    Learning Skeletal Articulations With Neural Blend Shapes

    Peizhuo Li, Kfir Aberman, Rana Hanocka, Libin Liu, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, and Baoquan Chen
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) 2021
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    Self-Sampling for Neural Point Cloud Consolidation

    Gal Metzer, Rana Hanocka, Raja Giryes, and Daniel Cohen-Or
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2021
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    Point2Mesh: A Self-Prior for Deformable Meshes

    Rana Hanocka, Gal Metzer, Raja Giryes, and Daniel Cohen-Or
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) 2020
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    Deep Geometric Texture Synthesis

    Amir Hertz*, Rana Hanocka*, Raja Giryes, and Daniel Cohen-Or (* joint first authors)
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) 2020
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    PointGMM: a Neural GMM Network for Point Clouds

    Amir Hertz, Rana Hanocka, Raja Giryes, and Daniel Cohen-Or
    CVPR 2020
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    MeshCNN: A Network with an Edge

    Rana Hanocka, Amir Hertz, Noa Fish, Raja Giryes, Shachar Fleishman and Daniel Cohen-Or
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH) 2019
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    ALIGNet: Partial-Shape Agnostic Alignment via Unsupervised Learning

    Rana Hanocka, Noa Fish, Zhenhua Wang, Raja Giryes, Shachar Fleishman and Daniel Cohen-Or
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2018
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