Justin Salamon
Principal Scientist
San Francisco, CA
Justin is a Principal Scientist and head of the Sound Design AI (SODA) group at Adobe Research in San Francisco. SODA works on sound generation and understanding for creative video and audio applications. The team ships foundation audio and audiovisual models that solve real user needs, working with product teams to ship groundbreaking creative experiences. Before joining Adobe, Justin was a Senior Research Scientist at New York University. For further information and a full list of his publications please see: www.justinsalamon.com
Publications
Language-Guided Audio-Visual Source Separation via Trimodal Consistency
Highlight Paper (Top 10%)
Who Calls the Shots? Rethinking Few-Shot Learning for Audio
Best Audio Few-Shot Learning Paper Award
News
Adobe researchers pioneer the future of sound design with GenSFX
Firefly’s Generate Sound Effects (GenSFX) was created by Adobe Researchers who envisioned a new approach to audio: one that’s intuitive, expressive, and fun.
September 4, 2025New AI features make audio editing easier – and more accessible for everyone
The team at Adobe Research has helped develop four new AI-driven features that are changing the way people edit audio in Premiere Pro. With each of the new features, creators– whether they're seasoned pros or novices– can turn their ideas into high-quality audio and video.
March 21, 2024Adobe Research interns hone their communication and coding skills in a summer of learning
When researchers communicate well, they’re able to collaborate and share the importance of their work. That’s why the folks behind the Adobe internship program designed a series of communications workshops and a Code Quality Jam this summer.
October 17, 2022Readability Research: This New Field Can Help Us All Read Better
Each person reads differently, and what could help one person read digital text better may not help another. That’s the issue at the heart of Adobe’s Readability Initiative—a partnership of Adobe Research, Adobe engineering, product management, corporate social responsibility, and education teams, as well as external collaborators.
February 15, 2022Video: Adobe Research Intern Mentors Share What Works
Every year, Adobe Research seeks out several hundred bright minds to join us as research interns. What makes interning with us stand out? In this video, our panelists share their approach to working with interns and what makes for a great internship. Check it out!
January 12, 2022Teaching machines to understand and generate 3D sound with ASMR videos
Videos with spatial audio are rapidly proliferating due to advances in mobile phone mics and AR/VR technology. A particularly trending type of video with spatial audio is autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) videos. In these videos, “ASMRtists” often move softly sounding objects in front of
June 18, 2020