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How is Adobe involved?

This is Python + OpenCV, but I'm under the impression Adobe is a pretty serious C++ shop and has their own graphics libraries (I'm mainly aware of boost::GIL and their STL)

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Adobe's research group in Seattle is pretty separated off from the core of the company down in San Jose. The researchers there don't have academic professor levels of do what ever you want freedom, but a lot of their work doesn't look like it even comes close to being associated with any of Adobe's products.

I actually did two internship there. The Seattle lab did ship many new features like content-aware fill, shake reduction introduced in Photoshop CC 2015. The researchers there also has lots of freedom to explore different directions not directly related to the products, and it turns out that many of them will become a new feature of products within a few years.

In the Acknowledgements it says:

This work was supported, in part, by funding from Adobe, eBay and Intel, as well as a hardware grant from NVIDIA. J.-Y. Zhu is supported by Facebook Graduate Fellowship.

I assume Adobe is in the title and eBay and Intel aren't for some reason

I am not sure. I think it could be a proof-of-concept opensource prototype. Adobe researcher was also involved.

Because large corporation funding usually specifies which language you must use or else no money for ya.

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