Soo Ye Kim

Research Scientist

Los Angeles

Soo Ye is a Research Scientist at Adobe Research since 2022. She obtained her PhD, MS and BS in EE from KAIST, South Korea. Soo Ye was a Research Intern at Adobe Research in 2021 and a Research Intern and Student Researcher at Google Research in 2020. She is a recipient of the Google PhD Fellowship 2021 and Qualcomm Innovation Awards 2018. During her PhD, Soo Ye’s primary research focus was image and video restoration and enhancement, especially super-resolution, with related papers presented at top CV & AI conferences. At Adobe, she is interested in image & video editing. For more information, visit Soo Ye’s personal website.

Publications

MetaShadow: Object-Centered Shadow Detection, Removal, and Synthesis

Wang, Tianyu., Zhang, Jianming., Zheng, Haitian., Ding, Zhihong., Cohen, Scott., Lin, Zhe., Xiong, Wei., Fu, Chi-Wing., Figueroa, Luis., Kim, Soo. (Jun. 15, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

FINECAPTION: Compositional Image Captioning Focusing on Wherever You Want at Any Granularity

Hua, Hang., Liu, Qing., Zhang, Lingzhi., Shi, Jing., Kim, Soo., Zhang, Zhifei., Wang, Yilin., Zhang, Jianming., Lin, Zhe., Luo, Jiebo. (Jun. 15, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

Generative Video Propagation

Liu, Shaoteng., Wang, Tianyu., Wang, Jui-Hsien., Liu, Qing., Zhang, Zhifei., Lee, Joon-Young., Li, Yijun., Yu, Bei., Lin, Zhe., Kim, Soo., Jia, Jiaya. (Jun. 14, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

Multitwine: Multi-Object Compositing with Text and Layout Control

Tarrés, Gemma., Lin, Zhe., Zhang, Zhifei., Zhang, He., Gilbert, Andrew., Collomosse, John., Kim, Soo. (Jun. 13, 2025)

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Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

Generative Image Layer Decomposition with Visual Effects

Yang, Jinrui., Liu, Qing., Li, Yijun., Kim, Soo., Pakhomov, Daniil., Ren, Mengwei., Zhang, Jianming., Lin, Zhe., Xie, Cihang., Zhou, Yuyin. (Jun. 13, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

UniReal: Universal Image Generation and Editing via Learning Real-world Dynamics

Chen, Xi., Zhang, Zhifei., Zhang, He., Zhou, Yuqian., Kim, Soo., Liu, Qing., Li, Yijun., Zhang, Jianming., Zhao, Nanxuan., Wang, Yilin., Ding, Hui., Lin, Zhe., Zhao, Hengshuang. (Jun. 11, 2025)

CVPR 2025

ObjectMover: Generative Object Movement with Video Prior

Yu, Xin., Wang, Tianyu., Kim, Soo., Guerrero, Paul., Chen, Xi., Liu, Qing., Lin, Zhe., Qi, Xiaojuan. (Jun. 10, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

Thinking Outside the BBox: Unconstrained Generative Object Compositing

Tarres, Gemma., Lin, Zhe., Zhang, Zhifei., Zhang, Jianming., Song, Yizhe., Ruta, Dan., Gilbert, Andrew., Collomosse, John., Kim, Soo. (Oct. 1, 2024)

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)

IMPRINT: Generative Object Compositing by Learning Identity-Preserving Representation

Song, Yizhi., Zhang, Zhifei., Lin, Zhe., Cohen, Scott., Price, Brian., Zhang, Jianming., Kim, Soo., Zhang, He., Xiong, Wei., Aliaga, Daniel., Price, Price. (Jun. 17, 2024)

CVPR 2024

ObjectStitch: Generative Object Compositing

Song, Yizhi., Zhang, Zhifei., Lin, Zhe., Cohen, Scott., Price, Brian., Zhang, Jianming., Kim, Soo., Aliaga, Daniel. (Jun. 18, 2023)

CVPR 2023

Layered Depth Refinement with Mask Guidance

Kim, Soo., Zhang, Jianming., Niklaus, Simon., Fan, Yifei., Chen, Simon., Lin, Zhe., Kim, Munchurl. (Jun. 21, 2022)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022)

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