UCLA Artificial Intelligence & Visual Computing Laboratory

Our research focuses on the synergy between visual computing and artificial intelligence. We are dedicated to advancing technologies in the creation, representation, understanding, and optimization of digital 2D/3D content and intelligent robots.

News

[2026-06-07] Our paper SPARK: Sim-ready Part-level Articulated Reconstruction with VLM Knowledge wins the CVPR 2026 Compute Transparency Champion Award!

[2026-05-27] Professor Chenfanfu Jiang Collaborates with Toyota Research Institute for URP 3.0.

[2026-05-21] Xuan Li wins SCA 2026 Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable mention.

[2026-05-18] Yunuo Chen is featured in UCLA Math Graduate Student Spotlight.

[2026-04-21] Tianyi Xie wins the UCLA CS Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.

[2026-04-09] Our paper SPARK: Sim-ready Part-level Articulated Reconstruction with VLM Knowledge is accepted as CVPR oral.

[2025-11-07] Our paper ElastoGen: 4D Generative Elastodynamics is accepted as AAAI oral.

[2025-10-10] Jiayin Lu wins the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) Postdoctoral Fellowships.

[2025-09-18] Our paper Taccel: Scaling Up Vision-based Tactile Robotics via High-performance GPU Simulation is accepted as NeurIPS spotlight.

[2025-04-04] Our paper ARM: Appearance Reconstruction Model for Relightable 3D Generation is accepted as CVPR highlight.

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[2025-02-28] Chang Yu wins the Meshy AI Scholarship.

[2024-10-14] Our paper A Convex Formulation of Frictional Contact for the Material Point Method and Rigid Bodies is recognized as a Finalist for IEEE IROS 2024 RoboCup Best Paper Award.

[2024-06-17] Our paper PhysGaussian: Physics-Integrated 3D Gaussians for Generative Dynamics is accepted as CVPR highlight.

[2024-02-16] Professor Chenfanfu Jiang awarded 2023 Science Hub awards.

[2023-09-15] Professor Chenfanfu Jiang awarded Sony Faculty Innovation Award.

[2023-08-20] We successfully hosted the 22nd annual Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) at UCLA!

[2023-08-20] Congratulations to Minchen Li on joining CMU CSD as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor!

[2023-05-01] Our paper PAC-NeRF: Physics Augmented Continuum Neural Radiance Fields for Geometry-Agnostic System Identification is accepted as ICLR Notable-Top-25%.

[2021-11-10] Our codebases for IDP and C-IPC are released: IDP-Code C-IPC-Code

[2021-08-10] Minchen Li wins the ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.

[2021-06-04] Our paper Soft Hybrid Aerial Vehicle Via Bistable Mechanism wins the IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design.