Micro-Edits: Computational Support for Fine-Scale Edits in Film
Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award
Hijung Valentina Shin
Research Scientist
Cambridge, MA
Valentina is a research scientist at Adobe. Her current research focuses on developing interaction tools and techniques for audio and visual media. She loves to build tools to support creative experiences and study how people use these tools. She finished her Ph.D. in computer science at the Graphics Group at MIT CSAIL with Fredo Durand. Her thesis focused on novel interaction techniques for navigating and manipulating audio and videos. She was an undergraduate at Princeton University, where she completed her B.S.E. in computer science. Visit her personal site here.
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Adobe Research at CHI: An experimental new design approach for human-AI co-creation
To go beyond simple AI prompts and outputs, Adobe Researchers, in a paper presented at CHI 2025, outlined a new approach for designing environments where humans and AI can collaborate and iterate together across an entire creative process. Learn more about the thinking behind this innovative research!
May 5, 2025Researcher Spotlight: Valentina Shin on building powerful, intuitive tools for audio and video
Research Scientist Valentina Shin combines AI and machine learning technologies with intuitive HCI to help users create audio and visual media. We talked to Shin about her research and inspirations, imagining new creative tools that are easier to use, and what she loves about Adobe Research.
May 15, 2023Project Blink: Creating the Future of AI-Powered Video Editing
Project Blink helps users find and quickly pull highlights from video content, making video editing as easy as text editing. Learn about how a cross-disciplinary team led by Adobe Research came together to build this new AI-powered, web-based video editing app.
March 20, 2023Helping Vloggers Create Better Videos
Adobe Research's intuitive, text-based interface could allow even novice vloggers to quickly create more engaging videos.
April 12, 2019