Scholar
Connelly Barnes
Google Scholar ID: NINFXC0AAAAJ
Adobe Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
8,099
H-index
27
i10-index
51
Publications
20
Co-authors
101
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- The PatchMatch technology researched for his Ph.D. was incorporated into Adobe Photoshop CS5 as content-aware fill, receiving 8 million views on YouTube. Also contributed to various Photoshop features like the remove tool, automatic wire removal, AI dust removal, and more. Published several papers, including 'Layer- and Timestep-Adaptive Differentiable Token Compression Ratios for Efficient Diffusion Transformers' and 'Diffusion2GAN: Distilling Diffusion Models into Conditional GANs'.
Research Experience
- Currently a Research Scientist at Adobe, focusing on computer science research, particularly on algorithms used by photographers. Worked in computer graphics and computer vision. Recent work includes image segmentation, inpainting, generative modeling, multimodal large language models, and super-resolution.
Education
- Assistant professor of computer science at the University of Virginia from 2013 to 2017.
Background
- Grew up in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, passionate about outdoor activities such as paddleboarding, snowskiing, hiking, and mountain biking. Interested in environmental protection, whole plant foods, lifestyle medicine, science, and sustainability.
Miscellany
- Personal interests include outdoor activities, environmental protection, whole plant foods, lifestyle medicine, science, and sustainability.
