Teaching an AI Agent to Retouch Photos: RetouchIQ at CVPR 2026

RetouchIQ is an experimental AI editing agent that understands what you mean when you describe how a photo should look and feel, then translates that intent into precise adjustments in professional photo-editing software. 

CVPR 2026: Adobe researchers present 75+ papers on the frontier of AI

Adobe Researchers are helping shape the future of AI at the world’s premiere computer vision event, CVPR 2026, the IEEE/CVR Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference. Adobe Researchers are presenting over 75 research papers, including several Oral Papers and award finalists.

A Single Primitive to Rule Them All: SuperFit at CVPR 2026 Compresses 3D Shapes into Editable Building Blocks  

SuperFit - presented at CVPR 2026 - converts complex 3D shapes into compact assemblies of simple, interpretable building blocks, called SuperFrusta. 

TokenTrace at CVPR 2026: Tracing Creative Influence in Generative AI 

TokenTrace embeds lightweight watermarks into training tokens associated with visual concepts. When the model later generates an image, TokenTrace can recover traces of these watermarked signals, allowing researchers to identify which concepts most strongly contributed to the output. 

Giving Image Editors Adjustable Control Over Editing Instructions: SliderEdit at CVPR 2026 

SliderEdit introduces continuous, adjustable control over individual editing instructions in instruction-based image editing models, turning each instruction into a smooth slider. 

Agentic Design Review System: Teaching AI to review graphic designs the way experts do 

Our Agentic Design Review System (Agentic-DRS) is an experimental multi-agent framework from Adobe Research for holistic graphic design evaluation. Specialized AI agents assess typography, color harmony, alignment, spacing, composition, and more, coordinated by a meta-agent. 

Object-WIPER: A Smarter Way to Erase Objects from Video 

Rather than treating object removal as a simple mask-and-fill task, Object-WIPER recognizes that objects leave visual traces in a scene — shadows on the ground, reflections in glass, translucent overlaps with the background — and that a complete removal means erasing those traces too. 

When the Music Fits: VidTune Helps Video Creators Find the Right Soundtrack 

The experimental technology VidTune generates multiple music tracks from a text prompt and produces visual "contextual thumbnails" for each one, letting creators compare options at a glance.

Vidmento: Filling the gaps in your video story with generative AI 

Vidmento is an experimental AI-assisted video authoring tool from Adobe Research, accepted at CHI 2026, that helps creators build complete video stories by blending their own captured footage with contextually generated clips — preserving narrative continuity and creative intent throughout.