Adobe Research opened an office in College Park two years ago, and during this talk we will provide an overview of one of our areas of exploration: the future of documents.
Documents have been with us for millennia, but the way in which we create, consume, and interact with documents is continuously evolving. For example, mobile devices and AI have changed how people read documents on their phones through Adobe’s Liquid Mode, as well as how they sign contracts and fill forms electronically through Adobe’s Sign and Fill & Sign. New technologies such as AR/VR will further change how we experience documents, and progress in AI/ML will continue to fuel the future of documents. We will describe our recent HCI, computer vision, and NLP research on topics such as document understanding, information extraction, handling real data at scale, and new modes of interaction with devices. We will also describe areas that we are interested in exploring and collaborating on in the future.
Rajiv Jain is a Senior Researcher at Adobe Research. His interests include computer vision, document image analysis, machine learning, media forensics, and distributed systems.
Prior to joining Adobe, Rajiv worked as a researcher for the Department of Defense on projects for large scale systems, computer vision, and network security. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland and went to Virginia Tech as an undergrad.
Vlad Morariu is a researcher at Adobe Research. His research interests involve combining computer vision, natural language, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques to develop rich visual and linguistic models that enable intelligent reasoning about images, videos, and related linguistic descriptions.
He received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 2010, with Professor Larry S. Davis as his advisor. Prior to that, he received the MS and BS degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in 2005, with Professor Octavia I. Camps as his thesis advisor. After completing his doctoral studies, he continued as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a research scientist at the University of Maryland until 2018, when he joined Adobe Research.