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.

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. 

MotionStream demonstrates real-time control in AI video creation

With the new experimental technology MotionStream, video creators can interact with AI-generated video while it’s being created, directing the movement of objects and changing camera angles in real-time with the simple use of a cursor and sliders.

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. 

SIGMA-GEN: Placing any subject, anywhere, exactly where you want it 

SIGMA-GEN is an experimental unified framework from Adobe Research, presented at ICLR 2026, for multi-identity-preserving image generation — placing multiple subjects into a scene in a single pass, with each subject's appearance faithfully preserved. 

New Photoshop feature: Rotate 2D objects in three dimensions

Video of Rotate Object by Rob de Winter A new Photoshop feature, built with major contributions from Adobe Research, allows users to turn a 2D layer into a 3D object, rotate the angle and perspective of the object, and then place it seamlessly back into a scene.   The new capability,...

Adobe takes home an Emmy for pioneering work in VR editing tools

Adobe Researchers have been honored with a Technology and Engineering Emmy for their groundbreaking work on virtual reality (VR) editing tools. The Emmy celebrates Adobe’s “significant contributions to the development of 360-degree consumer video capture, editing, and presentation technologies.”