Yuqian Zhou

Senior Research Scientist/Engineer

Seattle

Yuqian Zhou is a senior research scientist and engineer at Adobe Research. He is also the core researcher and engineer of Remove Tool (Photoshop), and the tech lead of multiple generations of Generative Fill (Photoshop, Adobe Firefly). He received his Ph.D. from UIUC and was advised by Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson. Before that, he was supervised by Prof. Thomas Huang(1936-2020). He was a research assistant at Image Formation and Processing Group IFP of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received his Bachelor and Mphil. degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(HKUST), working at Neuromorphic Interactive System Lab (NISL) supervised by Prof. Bertram Shi.

For more information about him, please visit his personal website.

Publications

TurboFill: Adapting Few-step Text-to-image Model for Fast Image Inpainting

Xie, Liangbin., Pakhomov, Daniil., Wang, Zhonghao., Wu, Zongze., Chen, Ziyan., Zhou, Yuqian., Zheng, Haitian., Zhang, Zhifei., Lin, Zhe., Zhou, Jiantao., Dong, Chao. (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

Layer- and Timestep-Adaptive Differentiable Token Compression Ratios for Efficient Diffusion Transformers

You, Haoran., Barnes, Connelly., Zhou, Yuqian., Kang, Yan., Du, Zhenbang., Zhou, Wei., Zhang, Lingzhi., Nitzan, Yotam., Liu, Xiaoyang., Lin, Zhe., Shechtman, Eli., Amirghodsi, Sohrab., Lin, Yingyan. (Jun. 10, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

Brush2Prompt: Contextual Prompt Generator for Object Inpainting

Chiu, Mang., Zhou, Yuqian., Zhang, Lingzhi., Lin, Zhe., Barnes, Connelly., Amirghodsi, Sohrab., Shechtman, Eli., Shi, Humphrey. (Jun. 17, 2024)

CVPR 2024

Automatic High Resolution Wire Segmentation and Removal

Chiu, Mang., Zhang, Xuaner., Wei, Zijun., Zhou, Yuqian., Shechtman, Eli., Barnes, Connelly., Lin, Zhe., Kainz, Florian., Amirghodsi, Sohrab., Shi, Humphrey. (Apr. 1, 2023)

CVPR 2023

Image as Set of Points

Ma, Xu., Zhou, Yuqian., Wang, Huan., Qin, Can., Sun, Bin., Liu, Chang., Fu, Yun. (Mar. 2, 2023)

ICLR 2023