Simon Jenni

I am a Research Scientist at Adobe Research. My research interests are in computer vision and deep learning, focusing on self-supervised learning methods for images and videos.

Previously, I was a Ph.D. student in the Computer Vision Group at the University of Bern, supervised by Paolo Favaro. I received my BSc degree in Computer Science in 2015 and my MSc degree in Computer Science in 2017, both at the University of Bern.

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video

Publications

October 19, 2025 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2025)

Improving Large Vision and Language Models by Learning from a Panel of Peers

Jefferson Hernandez, Jing Shi, Simon Jenni, Vicente Ordonez, Kushal Kafle

Computer Vision, Imaging & Video Content Intelligence Data Intelligence

June 15, 2025 CVPR 2025

The Photographer’s Eye: Teaching Multimodal Large Language Models to See, and Critique Like Photographers

Daiqing Qi, Handong Zhao, Jing Shi, Simon Jenni, Yifei Fan, Franck Dernoncourt, Scott Cohen, Sheng Li

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video Intelligent Agents & Assistants

June 13, 2025 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025) - eLVM Workshop

ViDROP: Video Dense Representation through Spatio-Temporal Sparsity

Sepehr Sameni, Simon Jenni, Paolo Favaro

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video

June 1, 2025 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

MAGNET: Augmenting Generative Decoders with Representation Learning and Infilling Capabilities

Savya Khosla, Aditi Tiwari, Kushal Kafle, Simon Jenni, Handong Zhao, John Collomosse, Jing Shi

AI & Machine Learning Natural Language Processing

October 29, 2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

Sync from the Sea: Retrieving Alignable Videos from Large-Scale Datasets

Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Mubarak Shah, Simon Jenni

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video

October 1, 2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

FineMatch: Aspect-based Fine-grained Image and Text Mismatch Detection and Correction

Hang Hua, Jing Shi, Kushal Kafle, Simon Jenni, Daoan Zhang, John Collomosse, Scott Cohen, Jiebo Liu

AI & Machine Learning Content Intelligence

June 19, 2024 CVPR 2024

Concept Weaver: Enabling Multi-Concept Fusion in Text-to-Image Models

Gihyun Kwon, Simon Jenni, Dingzeyu Li, Joon-Young Lee, Jong Chul Ye, Fabian Caba Heilbron

Computer Vision, Imaging & Video

June 17, 2024 CVPR 2024

Building Vision-Language Models on Solid Foundations with Masked Distillation

Sepehr Sameni, Kushal Kafle, Hao Tan, Simon Jenni

Computer Vision, Imaging & Video Natural Language Processing

March 24, 2024 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

No More Shortcuts: Realizing the Potential of Temporal Self-Supervision

Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave, Simon Jenni, Mubarak Shah

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video

December 17, 2023 European Conference on Computer Vision in Media Production (CVMP)

DECORAIT: DECentralized Opt-in/out Registry for AI Training

Kar Balan, Alex Black, Simon Jenni, Andrew Gilbert, Andy Parsons, John Collomosse

Best paper award

Content Intelligence

October 2, 2023 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

VADER: Video Alignment Differencing and Retrieval

Alex Black, Simon Jenni, Tu Bui, Mehrab Tanjim, Stefano Petrangeli, Ritwik Sinha, Vishy Swaminathan

AI & Machine Learning Content Intelligence

July 17, 2023 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Meta-Personalizing Vision-Language Models to Find Named Instances in Video

Chun-Hsiao Yeh, Bryan Russell, Josef Sivic, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Simon Jenni

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video

June 21, 2023 CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics (CVPRW)

EKILA: Synthetic Media Provenance and Attribution for Generative Art

Kar Balan, Shruti Agarwal, Simon Jenni, Andy Parsons, Andrew Gilbert, John Collomosse

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video Content Intelligence

January 4, 2023 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Audio-Visual Contrastive Learning with Temporal Self-Supervision

Simon Jenni, Alexander Black, John Collomosse, John Collomosse

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video Content Intelligence

December 6, 2021 International Conference on Computer Vision in Media Production (CVMP)

VPN: Video Provenance Network for Robust Content Attribution

Alexander Black, Tu Bui, Simon Jenni, Vishy Swaminathan, John Collomosse

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video Content Intelligence

October 10, 2021 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Time-Equivariant Contrastive Video Representation Learning

Simon Jenni, Hailin Jin

AI & Machine Learning Computer Vision, Imaging & Video

News

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.

June 9, 2026