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The San Francisco, California, lab is in the South of Market district, a short walking distance from the Fourth and King Caltrain station. Research staff are housed in the Baker & Hamilton Building, constructed in 1905 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The San Francisco office is home to many collaborative spaces and breakout areas, designed to enable teams to partner creatively.

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ReCLAP: Improving Zero Shot Audio Classification by Describing Sounds

Ghosh, Sreyan., Kumar, Sonal., Evuru, Chandra., Nieto, Oriol., Duraiswami, Ramani., Manocha, Dinesh. (Apr. 6, 2025)

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

SILA: Signal-to-Language Augmentation for Enhanced Control in Text-to-Audio Generation

Kumar, Sonal., Seetharaman, Prem., Salamon, Justin., Nieto, Oriol. (Oct. 12, 2025)

IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)

SliderSpace: Decomposing the Visual Capabilities of Diffusion Models

Gandikota, Rohit., Wu, Zongze., Zhang, Richard., Bau, David., Shechtman, Eli., Kolkin, Nick. (Oct. 19, 2025)

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2025)

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Adobe Researchers are discovering the hidden knowledge inside AI image generation models 

Ever wonder why AI image generators produce the specific results they do? In this work, Adobe researchers explore ways to map the visual knowledge hidden inside diffusion models – and use it to give users more control over the output.

Adobe researchers pioneer the future of sound design with GenSFX

Firefly’s Generate Sound Effects (GenSFX) was created by Adobe Researchers who envisioned a new approach to audio: one that’s intuitive, expressive, and fun.

The Story of Project Dub Dub Dub: From Adobe MAX Sneak to cutting-edge AI translation tool inside Adobe Firefly 

First introduced as Project Dub Dub Dub at Adobe MAX 2023, this AI tech now powers the cutting-edge translation tool in Adobe Firefly. It translates videos while matching the speaker’s voice, tone, and cadence. Explore the tech behind the magic!
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