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Dale Decatur

I am a PhD student at the University of Chicago's 3DL (threedle) lab studying computer graphics, 3D computer vision, and deep learning. I am advised by Rana Hanocka. Previously, I interned at Adobe Research. My research is supported by an NSF GRFP fellowship.

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Best Segmentation Buddies for Image-Shape Correspondence

Best Segmentation Buddies for Image-Shape Correspondence

Itai Lang*, Dongwei Lyu*, Dale Decatur, Rana Hanocka
(*Equal contribution)
CVPR, 2026

Best Segmentation Buddies computes segment-to-segment correspondence across different modalities.

Reusing Computation in Text-to-Image Diffusion for Efficient Generation of Image Sets

Reusing Computation in Text-to-Image Diffusion for Efficient Generation of Image Sets

ICCV, 2025

Our hierarchical diffusion shares denoising steps across correlated prompts to enable more efficient generation of image sets with diffusion models.

iSeg: Interactive 3D Segmentation via Interactive Attention

iSeg: Interactive 3D Segmentation via Interactive Attention

SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024

We propose an interactive segmentation technique for 3D shapes that produces fine-grained segmentations based on user clicks.

3D Paintbrush: Local Stylization of 3D Shapes with Cascaded Score Distillation

3D Paintbrush: Local Stylization of 3D Shapes with Cascaded Score Distillation

CVPR, 2024

Our approach generates precise localizations and highly detailed local textures on meshes using text guidance.

3D Highlighter: Localizing Regions on 3D Shapes via Text Descriptions

3D Highlighter: Localizing Regions on 3D Shapes via Text Descriptions

Dale Decatur, Itai Lang, Rana Hanocka
CVPR, 2023 Highlight Paper

Our technique reasons about where to place seemingly unrelated concepts in semantically meaningful locations on the 3D shape, such as a 'poncho' on a horse or 'shoes' on an alien.

VizExtract: Automatic Relation Extraction from Data Visualizations

VizExtract: Automatic Relation Extraction from Data Visualizations

Dale Decatur, Sanjay Krishnan
ArXiv, 2021

We present a system which extracts and classifies relations between variables from images of plots.

Talks


Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP)
Geometry Processing from 2D Image Priors
Bern, Switzerland · June 2026
MIT Summer Geometry Initiative (SGI)
Mesh Parameterization and Texture Optimization
Remote · 2024–2026
Cohere for AI - Community Talks
Text-driven Localization and Local Editing of 3D Shapes
Remote · July 2024
CVPR Workshop on Compositional 3D Vision
Localizing Regions on 3D Shapes via Text Descriptions
Vancouver, BC · June 2023

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