Summit Sneak winner Project Face Off: AI personas with an attitude 

Learn the behind-the-scenes story of Project Face Off - voted the best Summit Sneak of the year. 

Adobe Firefly’s alt text: Helping blind and low-vision creators design and choose images

A new feature in Adobe Firefly built in collaboration with Adobe Research is making text-to-image generation more accessible for blind and low-vision (BLV) creators.

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. 

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. 

TeamFusion: Using AI Agents to Represent Every Voice in Team Decisions 

TeamFusion is a multi-agent framework that supports team decision-making by creating AI proxy agents grounded in each member’s preferences, so that humans can make better-informed decisions together. 

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. 

Adobe Research at Summit 2026: Agentic AI for orchestrating customer experiences 

Adobe Research was behind some of the most exciting announcements, sessions, and sneak previews at Adobe Summit - from the unveiling of new tools that help marketers understand their customers’ behavior and design customer experiences at scale to hands-on agentic AI sessions.

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.