Graphics & Imaging

At Adobe’s Advanced Technology Labs (ATL), we are exploring the different aspects of acquiring, managing, and manipulating graphics, video, and audio in a world where electronic media are much easier to acquire and transport than ever before.

The new ubiquity and quantity of images create challenges for storage and organization, along with new opportunities for mining and analyzing the stored images. In addition, advances in hardware make images easier to manipulate than ever before. On the desktop, new possibilities exist in areas such as non-photorealistic rendering, while the integration of cameras and other devices — for example, computational cameras paired with desktop computers — create entirely new possibilities in working with digital media. ATL is exploring many of the same challenges and possibilities with video and also has an interest in new directions in audio.

Our graphics and imaging “lablets” in Seattle, Newton (near Boston), San Francisco, and San Jose are staffed by research scientists from around the world and summer interns from graduate research programs at MIT, Columbia, Berkeley, New York University, and the University of Washington, among others. We forge new directions for Adobe technology in areas as diverse as computational photography and video, automated adaptive layout, hardware-accelerated image processing and rendering, non-photorealistic rendering, computational listening (audio), computer vision, and many other areas. We collaborate actively with academic institutions and commercial partners in researching new technologies for creative professionals. Our goal is not only to advance the technology in existing Adobe products but also to develop disruptive technologies at the core of new Adobe products.