Machine Learning, Graphics, Vision, HCI, & AR/VR at Adobe ResearchPage Title

Abstract

Adobe Research conducts academic and industrial research in many areas such as computer vision, graphics, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and virtual and augmented reality that is published in top conferences and integrated into products used by millions of customers.  We also actively collaborate with universities, funding faculty and actively mentoring graduate students on research projects.  In this talk, several scientists from Adobe Research will present exciting research in the areas mentioned above as well as present ideas for which we are seeking future collaborators.  Come to hear about this research and afterward to ask questions and talk with Adobe researchers about potential collaboration opportunities.

 Facilitator: Brian Price 

Brian Price is a Senior Research Scientist in Adobe Research.  His research interests encompass computer vision, graphics and machine learning with specific focus on selection and segmentation (interactive and automatic, image and video, binary and matting), document understanding, and image synthesis. 

He has developed technologies that have gone into many Adobe products including Object-Aware Matting, the Object Selection tool and Select and Mask tool in Photoshop, the Smart Selection and Auto Select tools in Photoshop Mix, and the Refine Edge and Key Cleaner features in AfterEffects. Recently, he has worked with the Acrobat team on document-related technologies. He received his PhD degree in computer science from Brigham Young University in 2010, and his adviser was Dr. Bryan Morse.