Dani Lischinski

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8Z6Z8YQAAAAJ&hl=en

The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

E-mail: danix at mail.huji.ac.il

URL: https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danix/

Phone: +972-2-549-4549

Fax: +972-2-549-4549

Office: C425, Rothberg Family Building, Edmond J. Safra Campus (Givat Ram)

Personal Information

I am a full Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. I received my PhD from the Department of Computer Science and the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University in 1994, and I was a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington until 1996. In 2002/3, I spent a sabbatical year at Pixar Animation Studios. In 2012 I received the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award. In 2017, I served as the Technical Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2017. For more information, see my full cv.

Research

My areas of interest span a wide variety of topics in the fields of computer graphics, image and video processing, and computer vision. In the past, I have worked on algorithms for photorealistic image synthesis, simulation of global illumination, interactive visualization of complex virtual scenes, computer-generated illustration, facial animation, image-based modeling and rendering, medical visualization, and physically-based animation. Most of my recent work falls in the area of Computational Photography. More specifically, I am intersted in various tasks related to editing of images and video (filtering, detail manipulation, shadow removal, matting, tonal adjustment), and in particular tone mapping of HDR images. Another ongoing area of interest is texture synthesis. Currently, I am particularly interested in deep neural networks and their applications in vision, graphics, and computational photography.

Students: I am only able to supervise a limited number of motivated MSc and PhD students. Please take a look at my recent projects (below) before inquiring. Ideally, you should have taken machine learning, and image processing or computer graphics (or better yet, both). You will definitely need to become familiar with deep learning, so I recommend taking one of our deep learning courses as well.

Links to selected recent publications and project pages:

	DiffUHaul: A Training-Free Method for Object Dragging in Images. Omri Avrahami, Rinon Gal, Gal Chechik, Ohad Fried, Dani Lischinski, Arash Vahdat, Weili Nie. In Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, December 2024. [PDF][YouTube Video]
	Mismatch Quest: Visual and Textual Feedback for Image-Text Misalignment. Brian Gordon, Yonatan Bitton, Yonatan Shafir, Roopal Garg, Xi Chen, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Idan Szpektor. Proc. ECCV 2024. [PDF][GitHub]
	The Chosen One: Consistent Characters in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models. Omri Avrahami, Amir Hertz, Yael Vinker, Moab Arar, Shlomi Fruchter, Ohad Fried, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischinski. In Proc. SIGGRAPH 2024, July 2024. [PDF][Code (unofficial)]
	Generating Non-Stationary Textures using Self-Rectification. Yang Zhou, Rongjun Xiao, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang; Proc. CVPR 2024, pp. 7767-7776 [PDF]
	Noise-Free Score Distillation. Oren Katzir, Or Patashnik, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischinski. To appear in ICLR 2024. [PDF][Code][Project Page]
	Chatting Makes Perfect: Chat-Based Image Retrieval. Matan Levy, Rami Ben-Ari, Nir Darshan, Dani Lischinski. Proc. NeurIPS 2023. [PDF][GitHub][Project Page]
	Break-a-Scene: Extracting Multiple Concepts from a Single Image. Omri Avrahami, Kfir Aberman, Ohad Fried, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischinski. Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2023. [PDF][GitHub][Project Page]
	Blended-NeRF: Zero-Shot Object Generation and Blending in Existing Neural Radiance Fields. Ori Gordon, Omri Avrahami, Dani Lischinski. Proc. ICCV 2023 AI3DCC. [PDF][GitHub][Project Page]
	EmoSet: A Large-scale Visual Emotion Dataset with Rich Attributes. Jingyuan Yang, Qirui Huang, Tingting Ding, Dani Lischinski, Danny Cohen-Or, Hui Huang. Proc. ICCV 2023. [PDF][Project Page]
	What's in a Decade? Transforming Faces Through Time. Eric Ming Chen, Jin Sun, Apoorv Khandelwal, Dani Lischinski, Noah Snavely, Hadar Averbuch-Elor. Computer Graphics Forum 42(2), 281-291 (Proc. Eurographics 2023). [PDF][Code][Project Page]
	Blended Latent Diffusion. Omri Avrahami, Ohad Fried, Dani Lischinski. ACM Transactions on Graphics 42(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2023), August 2023. [PDF][GitHub][Project Page]
	SpaText: Spatio-Textual Representation for Controllable Image Generation. Omri Avrahami, Thomas Hayes, Oran Gafni, Sonal Gupta, Yaniv Taigman, Devi Parikh, Dani Lischinski, Ohad Fried, Xi Yin. Proc. CVPR 2023. [PDF][Project Page]
	Data Roaming and Early Fusion for Composed Image Retrieval. Matan Levy, Rami Ben-Ari, Nir Darshan, Dani Lischinski. Proc. AAAI 2024. [PDF][Project Page]
	Shape-Pose Disentanglement using SE(3)-equivariant Vector Neurons. Oren Katzir, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or. Proc. ECCV 2022 (oral). [PDF][GitHub]
	Classification-Regression for Chart Comprehension. Matan Levy, Rami Ben-Ari, Dani Lischinski. Proc. ECCV 2022. [PDF][GitHub][Project Page]
	GAN Cocktail: mixing GANs without dataset access. Omri Avrahami, Dani Lischinski, Ohad Fried. Proc. ECCV 2022. [PDF][GitHub][Project Page]
	Blended Diffusion for Text-driven Editing of Natural Images. Omri Avrahami, Dani Lischinski, Ohad Fried. Proc. CVPR 2022. [PDF][GitHub][Project Page]
	StyleAlign: Analysis and Applications of Aligned StyleGAN Models. Zongze Wu, Yotam Nitzan, Eli Shechtman, Dani Lischinski. Proc. ICLR 2022 (oral). [PDF][GitHub]
	StyleCLIP: Text-Driven Manipulation of StyleGAN Imagery. Or Patashnik, Zongze Wu, Eli Shechtman, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischinski. Proc. ICCV 2021 (oral). [PDF][GitHub][video]
	StyleSpace Analysis: Disentangled Controls for StyleGAN Image Generation. Zongze Wu, Dani Lischinski, Eli Shechtman. Proc. CVPR 2021 (oral). [PDF][GitHub][video]
	Fine-grained Foreground Retrieval via Teacher-Student Learning. Zongze Wu, Dani Lischinski, Eli Shechtman. Proc. WACV 2021. [PDF][video]
$refraction-tracing$	Differentiable refraction-tracing for mesh reconstruction of transparent objects. Jiahui Lyu, Bojian Wu, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang. ACM Transactions on Graphics 39(6) (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2020), Dec. 2020. [PDF][Project page]
	Cross-Domain Cascaded Deep Feature Translation. Oren Katzir, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or. Proc. ECCV 2020 (oral). [PDF]
	MotioNet: 3D Human Motion Reconstruction from Video with Skeleton Consistency. Mingyi Shi, Kfir Aberman, Andreas Aristidou, Taku Komura, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2020. [Webpage,Video,GitHub]
	Skeleton-Aware Networks for Deep Motion Retargeting. Kfir Aberman, Peizhuo Li, Dani Lischinski, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen. ACM Transactions on Graphics 39(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2020), July 2020. [Webpage,Video,GitHub]
	Unpaired Motion Style Transfer from Video to Animation. Kfir Aberman, Yijia Weng, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen. ACM Transactions on Graphics 39(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2020), July 2020. [Webpage,Video,GitHub]
	Unsupervised K-modal Styled Content Generation. Omry Sendik, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or. ACM Transactions on Graphics 39(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2020), July 2020. [PDF]
	Learning Character-Agnostic Motion for Motion Retargeting in 2D. Kfir Aberman, Rundi Wu, Dani Lischinski, Baoquan Chen, Daniel Cohen-Or. ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2019), July 2019. [Project Page]
	SAGNet: Structure-aware Generative Network for 3D Shape Modeling. Zhijie Wu, Xiang Wang, Di Lin, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang. ACM Transactions on Graphics 38(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2019), July 2019. [Project Page]
	ZigZagNet: Fusing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Context for Object Segmentation. Di Lin, Dingguo Shen, Siting Shen, Yuanfeng Ji, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang. Proc. CVPR 2019, June 2019. [Project Page]
	Deep Video-Based Performance Cloning. Kfir Aberman, Mingyi Shi, Jing Liao, Dani Lischinski, Baoquan Chen, Daniel Cohen-Or. Computer Graphics Forum 38(2) (Proc. Eurographics 2019), [Project Page]
	What's in a Face? Metric Learning for Face Characterization. Omry Sendik, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or. Computer Graphics Forum 38(2) (Proc. Eurographics 2019), [Project Page]
	Multi-Scale Context Intertwining for Semantic Segmentation. Di Lin, Yuanfeng Ji, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang. Proc. ECCV 2018, September 2018. [Project Page]
	Neural Best-Buddies: Sparse Cross-Domain Correspondence. Kfir Aberman, Jing Liao, Mingyi Shi, Dani Lischinski, Baoquan Chen, Daniel Cohen-Or. ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2018), August 2018. [Github Project Page]
	Creating and Chaining Camera Moves for Quadrotor Videography. Ke Xie, Hao Yang, Shengqiu Huang, Dani Lischinski, Marc Christie, Kai Xu, Minglun Gong, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang. ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2018), August 2018. [Project Page]
	Non-stationary Texture Synthesis by Adversarial Expansion. Yang Zhou, Zhen Zhu, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Hui Huang. ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(4) (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2018), August 2018. [Project Page][Supplementary][code]
	Appearance Modeling via Proxy-to-Image Alignment. Hui Huang, Ke Xie, Lin Ma, Dani Lischinski, Minglun Gong, Xin Tong, Daniel Cohen-Or. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 37(1), January 2018. [Project Page]
	Fast Penetration Volume for Rigid Bodies. Dan Nirel, Dani Lischinski. Computer Graphics Forum 37(2) (Proc. Eurographics 2018), pp. 239-250. [Project Page]
	Pigment-Based Recoloring of Watercolor Paintings. Elad Aharoni-Mack, Yakov Shambik, Dani Lischinski. Proceedings of NPAR'17, July 2017.
	Analysis and Controlled Synthesis of Inhomogeneous Textures. Yang Zhou, Huajie Shi, Dani Lischinski, Minglun Gong, Johannes Kopf, Hui Huang. Computer Graphics Forum 36(2) (Proc. Eurographics 2017), pp. 199-212. [Project Page]
	Trip synopsis: 60km in 60sec. Hui Huang, Dani Lischinski, Zhuming Hao, Minglun Gong, Marc Christie, Daniel Cohen-Or. Computer Graphics Forum 35(7) (Proc. Pacific Graphics 2016), pp. 107-116, Oct. 2016. [Project page]
	A Holistic Approach for Data-Driven Object Cutout. Huayong Xu, Yangyan Li, Wenzheng Chen, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen. Proc. ACCV 2016, pp. 245-260. [Project page]
	Printed Perforated Lampshades for Continuous Projective Images. Haisen Zhao, Lin Lu, Yuan Wei, Dani Lischinski, Andrei Sharf, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2016. [Project page]
	Synthesizing Training Images for Boosting Human 3D Pose Estimation. Wenzheng Chen, Huan Wang, Yangyan Li, Hao Su, Zhenhua Wang, Changhe Tu, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen. Proc. 3D Vision 2016. (originally published as arXiv:1604.02703, April 2016) [Project page]
	JumpCut: Non-Successive Mask Transfer and Interpolation for Video Cutout. Qingnan Fan, Fan Zhong, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen. ACM Transactions on Graphics 34(6) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015), Nov. 2015. [Project page]
	Hallucinating stereoscopy from a single image. Qiong Zeng, Wenzheng Chen, Huan Wang, Changhe Tu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischinski, and Baoquan Chen. Computer Graphics Forum 34(2) (Proc. Eurographics 2015), May 2015. [Project page]
	Self tuning texture optimization. A. Kaspar, B. Neubert, D. Lischinski, M. Pauly and J. Kopf. Computer Graphics Forum 34(2) (Proc. Eurographics 2015), May 2015. [Project page]
	Slippage-free background replacement for hand-held video. Fan Zhong, Song Yang, Xueying Qin, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Baoquan Chen. ACM Transactions on Graphics 33(6) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014), Dec. 2014. [Project page]
	Illuminant chromaticity from image sequences. Veronique Prinet, Dani Lischinski, and Michael Werman. Proc. ICCV 2013, Dec. 2013.
	Deblurring by example using dense correspondence. Yoav HaCohen, Eli Shechtman, and Dani Lischinski. Proc. ICCV 2013, Dec. 2013.
	"Mind the Gap": Tele-registration for structure driven image completion. Hui Huang, Kangxue Yin, Minglun Gong, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Uri Ascher, and Baoquan Chen. ACM Transactions on Graphics 32(6) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013), Nov. 2013.
	Optimizing Color Consistency in Photo Collections. Yoav HaCohen, Eli Shechtman, Dan B Goldman, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 32(4) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2013), July 2013.
	Locally Adaptive Products for All-Frequency Relighting. Yaron Inger, Zeev Farbman, Dani Lischinski. Computer Graphics Forum 32(2) (Proc. Eurographics 2013), May 2013. This paper received a Honorable Mention from the EG 2013 Best Paper Award Committee, and selected as one of Computing Reviews' Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2013
	Content-aware Automatic Photo Enhancement. Liad Kaufman, Dani Lischinski, Michael Werman. Computer Graphics Forum 31(8), Dec. 2012.
	Digital Reconstruction of Halftoned Color Comics. Johannes Kopf and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 31(6) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012), Nov. 2012.
	Convolution pyramids. Zeev Farbman, Raanan Fattal, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(5) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011), Dec. 2011.
	Depixelizing pixel art. Johannes Kopf and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(4) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2011), Aug. 2011. (This project page and paper were slashdotted...)
	Tonal stabilization of video. Zeev Farbman and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(4) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2011), Aug. 2011.
	Non-Rigid Dense Correspondence with Applications for Image Enhancement. Yoav HaCohen, Eli Shechtman, Dan B Goldman, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 30(4) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2011), Aug. 2011.
	Diffusion maps for edge-aware image editing. Zeev Farbman, Raanan Fattal, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 29(5) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2010), Dec. 2010.
	Layered Shape Synthesis: automatic generation of control maps for non-stationary textures. Amir Rosenberger, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 28(5) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009), Dec. 2009.
	Coordinates for instant image cloning. Zeev Farbman, Gil Hoffer, Yaron Lipman, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 28(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2009), Aug. 2009. New: cloning demo available (Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista)
	Locally adapted projections to reduce panorama distortions. Johannes Kopf, Dani Lischinski, Oliver Deussen, Daniel Cohen-Or, Michael Cohen, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2009, Computer Graphics Forum 28(4).
	Deep Photo: model-based photograph enhancement nd viewing. Johannes Kopf, Boris Neubert, Billy Chen, Michael F. Cohen, Daniel Cohen-Or, Oliver Deussen, Matt Uyttendaele, and Dani Lischinski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(5) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008), Dec. 2008.
	Edge-preserving decompositions for multi-scale tone and detail manipulation. Zeev Farbman, Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischinski, and Richard Szeliski, ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2008), Aug. 2008.
	Data-driven enhancement of facial attractiveness. Tommer Leyvand, Daniel Cohen-Or, Gideon Dror, and Dani Lischinski; ACM Transactions on Graphics 27(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2008), Aug. 2008.
	The Shadow meets the Mask: Pyramid-based shadow removal. Yael Shor and Dani Lischinski; Computer Graphics Forum 27(2) (Proc. Eurographics 2008), April 2008.
	Solid texture synthesis from 2D exemplars. Johannes Kopf, Chi-Wing Fu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Oliver Deussen, Dani Lischinski, Tien-Tsin Wong; ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007), Aug. 2007.
	Joint bilateral upsampling. Johannes Kopf, Michael F. Cohen, Dani Lischinski, Matt Uyttendaele; ACM Transactions on Graphics, 26(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007), Aug. 2007.
	Spectral matting. Anat Levin, Alex Rav-Acha, and Dani Lischinski; Proc. CVPR 2007.
	Interactive local manipulation of tonal values. Dani Lischinski, Zeev Farbman, Matt Uyttendaele, Richard Szeliski; ACM Transactions on Graphics, 25(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2006), July 2006.
	Recursive Wang tiles for real-time blue noise. Johannes Kopf, Daniel Cohen-Or, Oliver Deussen, and Dani Lischinski; ACM Transactions on Graphics, 25(3) (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2006), July 2006.
	A closed-form solution to natural image matting. Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski, and Yair Weiss. IEEE Trans. PAMI, 30(2), February 2008. (earlier version: Proc. CVPR 2006)
	Target-driven smoke animation. Raanan Fattal and Dani Lischinski; ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2004), 23(3):441-448, Aug. 2004.
	Colorization using optimization. Anat Levin, Dani Lischinski, and Yair Weiss; ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2004), 23(3):689-694, Aug. 2004.
	Constrained synthesis of textural motion for articulated characters. Shmuel Moradoff and Dani Lischinski; The Visual Computer, 20:253-265, June 2004.
	Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression. Raanan Fattal, Dani Lischinski, and Michael Werman; ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2002), 21(3):249-256, July 2002.
	Other (older) online publications.

Courses

"Computational Photography" (67735): an advanced course covering a number of selected topics in computational photography. Taught in Spring 2022.
"Introduction to Neural Networks" (67103): Introduction to neural networks for computer vision and image processing. Taught in Spring 2022.
"Seminar in Computer Graphics and Computational Photography" (67811): Taught in Spring 2022.
"Computer Graphics" (67609): an introductory course in computer graphics. Taught in Fall 2021.
"Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics" (67535): an advanced course covering a number of topics selected from recent SIGGRAPH conferences. Last taught in Spring 2009.
"Advanced Topics in Photorealistic Computer Graphics" (67684): an advanced course covering topics such as global illumination algorithms (radiosity, Monte Carlo), as well as image-based rendering. Last taught in Spring 2004.
"Modeling Geometry and Appearance of 3D Objects" (67315): a semi-advanced course covering concepts and techniques in geometric and solid modeling, texturing, procedural shaders, and more. Last taught in Fall 2001.
"Computer Science in Practice" (67864): formerly a mandatory MSc course. Last taught in Spring 2007.
"Introduction to Computer Science" (67130): a mandatory first year course. Last taught in Fall 2012.
"Data Structures" (67109): a mandatory first-year course. Last taught in Spring 2002.

Clickworthy Links

CDT, a (very old) program for incremental Constrained Delaunay Triangulations in 2D
The OpenGL Home Page
Slides on "How to write a SIGGRAPH paper", from the SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 course.
Lightricks: a successful company founded by a few of my former students.

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