Lei Li

School of Data Science, University of Virginia

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1919 Ivy Road

Charlottesville, VA 22903

Lei Li is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia. Before joining UVA in 2025, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, working with Prof. Angela Dai, and at École Polytechnique / Inria, working with Prof. Maks Ovsjanikov. Lei received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering (2020) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and his BEng in Software Engineering (2014) from Shandong University. His PhD thesis advisor was Prof. Chiew-Lan Tai. Lei’s research interests include computer vision and computer graphics, with a focus on enhancing machines’ spatial reasoning abilities to perceive, understand, and interact with the 3D world.

News

08.2025 I joined the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.
06.2025 Our work DiffuMatch: Category-Agnostic Spectral Diffusion Priors for Robust Non-rigid Shape Matching has been accepted by ICCV 2025.
06.2025 Our work MeshPad: Interactive Sketch-Conditioned Artist-Designed Mesh Generation and Editing has been accepted by ICCV 2025.
03.2025 I was invited to serve as a member of the program committee for Pacific Graphics 2025.
02.2025 Our work MeshArt: Generating Articulated Meshes with Structure-Guided Transformers has been accepted by CVPR 2025.
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Selected Publications

  1. ICCV
    DiffuMatch: Category-Agnostic Spectral Diffusion Priors for Robust Non-rigid Shape Matching
    Emery Pierson,  Lei Li, Angela Dai, and Maks Ovsjanikov
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision 2025
  2. ICCV
    MeshPad: Interactive Sketch-Conditioned Artist-Designed Mesh Generation and Editing
    Haoxuan Li, Ziya Erkoc,  Lei Li, Daniele Sirigatti, Vladyslav Rozov, Angela Dai, and Matthias Nießner
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision 2025
  3. CVPR
    MeshArt: Generating Articulated Meshes with Structure-Guided Transformers
    Daoyi Gao, Yawar Siddiqui,  Lei Li, and Angela Dai
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025
  4. CVPR
    LT3SD: Latent Trees for 3D Scene Diffusion
    Quan Meng,  Lei Li, Matthias Nießner, and Angela Dai
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025
  5. CVPR
    GenZI: Zero-Shot 3D Human-Scene Interaction Generation
    Lei Li, and Angela Dai
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024
  6. ECCV
    To Supervise or Not to Supervise: Understanding and Addressing the Key Challenges of Point Cloud Transfer Learning
    Souhail Hadgi,  Lei Li, and Maks Ovsjanikov
    In European Conference on Computer Vision 2024
  7. CVPR
    Generalizable Local Feature Pre-training for Deformable Shape Analysis
    Souhaib Attaiki,  Lei Li, and Maks Ovsjanikov
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023
  8. NeurIPS
    Learning Multi-resolution Functional Maps with Spectral Attention for Robust Shape Matching
    Lei Li, Nicolas Donati, and Maks Ovsjanikov
    In Neural Information Processing Systems 2022
  9. TVCG
    WSDesc: Weakly Supervised 3D Local Descriptor Learning for Point Cloud Registration
    Lei Li, Hongbo Fu, and Maks Ovsjanikov
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2022
  10. CVPR
    PointDSC: Robust Point Cloud Registration using Deep Spatial Consistency
    Xuyang Bai, Zixin Luo, Lei Zhou, Hongkai Chen,  Lei Li, Zeyu Hu, Hongbo Fu, and Chiew-Lan Tai
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021
  11. CVPR
    End-to-End Learning Local Multi-view Descriptors for 3D Point Clouds
    Lei Li, Siyu Zhu, Hongbo Fu, Ping Tan, and Chiew-Lan Tai
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2020
  12. TVCG
    Sketch-R2CNN: An RNN-Rasterization-CNN Architecture for Vector Sketch Recognition
    Lei Li, Changqing Zou, Youyi Zheng, Qingkun Su, Hongbo Fu, and Chiew-Lan Tai
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2020
  13. CG&A
    Fast Sketch Segmentation and Labeling with Deep Learning
    Lei Li, Hongbo Fu, and Chiew-Lan Tai
    IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 2018