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Darshan Prasad

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Jose Echevarria

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ChartEval: LLM-Driven Chart Generation Evaluation Using Scene Graph Parsing

Goswami, Kanika., Mathur, Puneet., Rossi, Ryan., Dernoncourt, Franck., Gupta, Vivek., Manocha, Dinesh. (Dec. 24, 2025)

IJCNLP-AACL 2025 System Demonstrations

Understanding Generative AI Capabilities in Everyday Image Editing Tasks

Collins, Brandon., Taesiri, Mohammad., Bolton, Logan., Lai, Viet., Dernoncourt, Franck., Bui, Trung., Nguyen, Anh. (Mar. 10, 2026)

WACV 2026

VipAct: Visual-Perception Enhancement via Specialized VLM Agent Collaboration and Tool-use

Zhang, Zhehao., Rossi, Ryan., Yu, Tong., Dernoncourt, Franck., Zhang, Ruiyi., Gu, Jiuxiang., Kim, Sungchul., Chen, Xiang., Wang, Zichao., Lipka, Nedim. (Jan. 27, 2026)

AAAI 2026

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The research behind Harmonize, a new generative compositing tool that blends objects into any background 

Jointly developed by Adobe Research and the Photoshop team, Harmonize uses AI to relight, recolor, and blend objects seamlessly into any scene. First shown as MAX Sneak Project Perfect Blend, this breakthrough is now available in Photoshop! Read the full story.

Photoshop turns 35: How Adobe Research helps keep creatives on the cutting edge

35 years of Photoshop! From early masking tools to today’s generative AI, Adobe Research has fueled breakthroughs that push the boundaries of creativity—turning bold ideas into everyday magic for creators worldwide.

Our evolving relationship with artificial intelligence: Interview with Brano Kveton

What happens when AI doesn’t just respond—but learns and improves from every human interaction? In this story, Principal Research Scientist Branislav Kveton shares his work on reinforcement learning, agentic AI models, and his insights on the evolving relationship between humans and AI.
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