Research Scientist @ Adobe Research

Tianyu (Steve) Wang

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[Jun 2024]—Joined Adobe Research as a Research Scientist.

[Feb 2025]—Three papers accepted at CVPR 2025. Huge congrats to Shaoteng & Xin Yu — my very first interns! 🎉

[Oct 2025]—My led project GenProp was selected for Adobe MAX Sneak 2025, featured as Project Frame Forward.

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I am a Research Scientist at Adobe Research, where I lead multiple research-to-production projects in generative image and video editing. My work spans unified editing frameworks (EditVerse, ICLR'26 Oral), generative video propagation (GenProp, Adobe MAX Sneak 2025), and physically-grounded shadow understanding (MetaShadow, shipped in Lightroom & Photoshop). I am equally driven by fundamental questions — how should we train visual generative models from scratch, and can editing and generation be unified into a single paradigm? These threads are converging on my broader vision: building world-aware visual foundation models that inherently understand the physical constraints of our world. I received my Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Chi-Wing Fu. When I'm not pushing pixels through neural networks, I'm exposing them on film — a slower way of seeing that keeps me close to the beauty I'm trying to teach machines to understand.

Publications

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Selected Works

EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning

Xuan Ju, Tianyu Wang, Yuqian Zhou, He Zhang, Qing Liu, Nanxuan Zhao, Zhifei Zhang, Yijun Li, Yuanhao Cai, Shaoteng Liu, Daniil Pakhomov, Zhe Lin, Soo Ye Kim^†, Qiang Xu^†

ICLR (Oral) 2026Tech Lead

Self-Evaluation Unlocks Any-Step Text-to-Image Generation

Xin Yu, Xiaojuan Qi^†, Zhengqi Li, Kai Zhang, Richard Zhang, Zhe Lin, Eli Shechtman, Tianyu Wang^†, Yotam Nitzan^†

CVPR 2026Co-Lead

LightMover: Towards Precise and Efficient Control for Light Movement

Gengze Zhou, Tianyu Wang, Soo Ye Kim, Zhixin Shu, Xin Yu, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Sumit Chaturvedi, Qi Wu, Zhe Lin, Scott Cohen

CVPR 2026Project Lead

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

Tianyu Wang, Jianming Zhang, Haitian Zheng, Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Wei Xiong, Chi-Wing Fu, Luis Figueroa^†, Soo Ye Kim^†

CVPR 2025Project Lead

Generative Video Propagation

Shaoteng Liu, Tianyu Wang, Jui-Hsien Wang, Qing Liu, Zhifei Zhang, Joon-Young Lee, Yijun Li, Bei Yu, Zhe Lin, Soo Ye Kim^†, Jiaya Jia^†

CVPR 2025Tech Lead

ObjectMover: Generative Object Movement with Video Prior

Xin Yu, Tianyu Wang, Soo Ye Kim, Paul Guerrero, Xi Chen, Qing Liu, Zhe Lin, Xiaojuan Qi^†

CVPR 2025Project Lead

More Publications (16)

RetouchIQ: MLLM Agents for Instruction-Based Image Retouching with Generalist Reward

Qiucheng Wu, Jing Shi, Simon Jenni, Kushal Kafle, Tianyu Wang, Shiyu Chang, Handong Zhao

CVPR 2026

OmniVCus: Feedforward Subject-driven Video Customization with Multimodal Control Conditions

Yuanhao Cai, He Zhang, Xi Chen, Jinbo Xing, Yiwei Hu, Yuqian Zhou, Kai Zhang, Zhifei Zhang, Soo Ye Kim, Tianyu Wang, Yulun Zhang, Xiaokang Yang, Zhe Lin, Alan Yuille