Eli Shechtman
Senior Principal Scientist
Seattle, WA
Eli Shechtman is a Senior Principal Scientist in the Imaging Lab, Adobe Research. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University in 1996 and his MSc and PhD with honors in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2003 and 2007. He then joined Adobe and also shared his time as a post-doc at the University of Washington between 2007-2010. He has published over 100 academic publications. Two of his papers were chosen to be published as “Research Highlight” papers in the Communication of the ACM (CACM) journal. He served as a Technical Paper Committee member at SIGGRAPH 2013 and 2014 and Paper Sorting Committee member at SIGGRAPH 2025, was an Area Chair at ICCV 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2025, CVPR 2015, 2017 and 2020, ECCV 2022 and 2024 and an Associate Editor for TPAMI from 2016-2020. He has received several honors and awards, including the Best Paper prize at ECCV 2002, a Best Paper award at WACV 2018, a Best Paper Runner Up at FG 2020 and the Helmholtz “Test of Time Award” at ICCV 2017. His research is in the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. In particular, he is focusing on generative modeling and editing of visual data. Some of his research can be found in Adobe’s products such as Adobe Firefly, Photoshop’s Generative Fill, Remove tool and Content Aware Fill, Content Aware Fill for Video in After Effects, Upright in Lightroom and Characterizer in Character Animator as well as in more than 100 issued US patents. Eli leads a team of top researchers and research engineers.
His publications on Google Scholar, DBLP
Contact: elishe [at] adobe [dot] com
Academic Activities
- X-Fusion was awarded the Best Paper award at the T4V workshop @ CVPR’25
- Keynote at CVEU@CVPR’25 on “Towards Interactive Video Generation”
- On the organizing team of Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision workshop at CVPR’25
- Area Chair ICCV’25
- Technical Papers Sorting Team at SIGGRAPH’25
- Area Chair ECCV’24
- SIGGRAPH’24 Conflict of Interest Coordinator
- SIGGRAPH’23 Conflict of Interest Coordinator
- Keynote at ISVC’22
- Area Chair ECCV’22
- Area Chair ICCV’21
- Area Chair CVPR’20
- Invited talk at AIM’19
- Area Chair ICCV’19
- Invited talk at the Deep Learning for Content Creation – CVPR’19 tutorial
- Invited talk at IWCV’18
- Invited talk at PIRM’18
- Invited talk at Chalearn’18
- Best Paper (people choice) award at WACV’18 for the paper “Saliency Driven Image Manipulation”
- Awarded the Helmholtz Prize at ICCV’17 for the paper “Actions as Space-Time Shapes”
- Invited talk at NTIRE’17
- Invited talk at YConf’17, YCombinator Research
- Area Chair- CVPR’17
- Associate Editor at IEEE TPAMI from Dec.2016
- Area Chair- ICCV ’15
- Area Chair- CVPR ’15
- Technical Program Committee member- SIGGRAPH ’14
- Technical Program Committee member- SIGGRAPH ’13
Other
- Project Artistic Scenes presented by Sai Bi as a Sneak at MAX’22, based on our ARF and NNST projects.
- Project Artful Frames presented by Nick Kolkin as a Sneak at MAX’21, based on NNST project.
- Project SweetTalk presented by Dingzeyu Li as a Sneak at MAX’19 and based on the MakeItTalk project.
- Project Fontphoria, presented by Matt Fisher as a Sneak at MAX’18, was partially based on the MCGAN project.
- Project Puppetron, presented by Jakub Fiser as a Sneak at MAX’17, is now in the news.
- Project Cloak, presented by Geoffrey Oxholm as a Sneak at Adobe MAX’17, is now in the news.
- Ian Sachs demos two of my technologies on a mobile app (Deep Portrait Segmentation and Perspective Manipulation of Portraits).
- A Sneak Peak at Adobe Max 2015 on Defusing Photobombs (Finding Distractors in Images)
Tech Transfers
- Firefly Image Model 4 (April 2025)
- Firefly Image Model 3 – Fast Mode (April 2024) – based on the DMD, DMD2 research
- Firefly Image Model 2 (Oct. 2023)
- Generative Fill in Adobe Express (Oct. 2023)
- Generative Fill and Expand in Photoshop (beta Mar. 2023, GA Sept. 2023, Photoshop 25.0)
- Remove Tool in Photoshop (beta Mar. 2023, GA Sept. 2023, Photoshop 25.0)
- Firefly Image 1 model (beta Mar. 2023, GA Sept. 2023)
- Perspective Grid Capture in Fresco 3.3 (Feb. 2022)
- Landscape Mixer Neural Filter in Photoshop CC 23.0 (video)
- Smart Portrait Neural Filter in Photoshop CC 22.0 (video)
- Speech-Aware Animation in After Effects CC 17.5
- Smooth Skin in Photoshop Elements 2020 and as a Neural Filter in Photoshop CC 22.0
- Panorama Fill Edges with CAF in Lightroom CC 5.0 and Lightroom Classic 9
- Content Aware Tiling in Substance Alchemist 19.3
- Auto Sampling Area for CAF in Photoshop CC 21.0
- Content Aware Fill for video in After Effect CC 16.1
- Characterizer in Character Animator CC 2019
- Content Aware Fill workspace in Photoshop CC 20.0
- Looping Videos in Adobe Stock (MAX’18)
- Open Closed Eyes in Photoshop Elements 2018
- Match Font is now also part of InDesign, Illustrator, Capture CC (3.0.1) and a TypeKit service
- Auto Ground Plane (using adapted Upright) and Match Lighting (using adapted CAF) shipped in Dimension CC 1.0
- Capture Perspective Grids from Photos in
Adobe Photoshop Sketch (3.5) and Adobe Illustrator Draw (3.4) - Match Font in Photoshop CC (2015.5)
- Content Aware Crop in Photoshop CC (2015.5)
- Transform on Drop for Content Aware Move in Photoshop CC (2015)
- Content Aware Fill for Photomerge in Photoshop CC (2015)
- Interactive Healing Brush in Photoshop Mix (Jan. 2015)
- Upright and Content Aware Fill in Photoshop Mix (Jan 2015)
- Fixel- Content Aware Fill iOS app (July 2014)
- Color Adaptation for Content Aware Fill, Patch & Move in Photoshop CC 2014 (15.0)
- Upright- automatic perspective correction in Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC 14.1
- Content Aware Patch and Move tools in Photoshop CS6, Content Aware Move tool in PSE12
- Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5, Content Aware Spot Healing Brush in PSE9, Autofill Edges/ Straighten Tool in PSE12
Honors & Awards
- 2022 – Best Application Paper for WACV’22 for the paper “CharacterGAN: Few-Shot Keypoint Character Animation and Reposing”
- 2020 – Best Paper Runner Up award at FG’20 for the paper “Learning Monocular Face Reconstruction using Multi-View Supervision”
- 2019 – CAF for Video wins multiple National Association of Broadcasters awards
- 2018 – Best Paper award at WACV’18 for the paper “Saliency Driven Image Manipulation”
- 2018 – Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR’18
- 2017 – awarded the Helmholtz Prize at ICCV’17 for the paper “Actions as Space-Time Shapes”
- 2014 – the paper on Moving Portraits was chosen to be published as a “Research Highlight” in CACM
- 2014 – Outstanding Reviewer at ECCV’14
- 2011 – the paper on PatchMatch was chosen to be published as a “Research Highlight” in CACM
- 2010 – “Technical Excellence Award for 2010” by the PC Magazine to the “Content Aware Fill” feature in Photoshop CS5
- 2007 – The J.F. Kennedy Award for Ph.D. work (highest award), Weizmann Institute of Science
- 2007 – Outstanding Student Award, the Israeli Knesset (parliament)
- 2004 – Best Poster Award, CVPR 2004, for the paper “Space-Time Video Completion”
- 2003 – Dean’s prize for M.Sc. students, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 2002 – Best Paper Award, ECCV 2002, for the paper “Increasing Space Time Super-Resolution in Video”
Publications
From Slow Bidirectional to Fast Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models
#1 on VBench Leaderboard at submission
X-Fusion: Introducing New Modality to Frozen Large Language Models
Best Paper award at T4V workshop CVPR'25
Image Neural Field Diffusion Models
Highlight
Learning Monocular Face Reconstruction using Multi-View Supervision
Best Paper Runner Up award
Saliency Driven Image Manipulation
(Best Paper!)
Moving Portraits
Research Highlight
The PatchMatch randomized matching algorithm for image manipulation
Research Highlight
Actions as Space-Time Shapes
(Hemholtz Prize at ICCV'17)
Space-Time Video Completion
Best Poster award
Increasing Space-Time Resolution in Video
Best Paper Prize
News
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.
April 10, 2026