Aniruddha Mahapatra

I am a Research Scientist/Engineer at Adobe Research. I completed my Masters in Computer Vision (MSCV) from Carnegie Mellon University, where I was advised by Prof. Jun-Yan Zhu. My research interest include image and video synthesis and editing using generative models. Lately, I have been mostly interested in representation learning for generation.

Research Internships at Adobe
If you are interested in a research internship at Adobe Research, feel free to send me an email with your CV and research interests.

Software

Firefly Video [Adobe]

Key contributor to the design of the video tokenizer and decoder architecture for Adobe's Firefly Video foundation model.

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Generative Extend [Adobe]

Key contributor to the specialized decoder architecture and optimizations that enables fast and High-Resolution decoding.

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Moving Elements [Adobe]

Adobe's Photoshop Elements 2023 new feature 'Moving Elements' lets users generate aesthetic cinemagraphs from their photos.

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Selected Publications

arXiv 2025

DynamicEval: Rethinking Evaluation for Dynamic Text-to-Video Synthesis

Nithin C. Babu, Aniruddha Mahapatra, Harsh Rangwani, Rajiv Soundararajan, Kuldeep Kulkarni

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ICCV 2025

Progressive Growing of Video Tokenizers for Temporally Compact Latent Spaces

Aniruddha Mahapatra, Long Mai, David Bourgin, Yitian Zhang, Feng Liu

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ICCV 2025

REGEN: Learning Compact Video Embedding with (Re-)Generative Decoder

Yitian Zhang, Long Mai, Aniruddha Mahapatra, David Bourgin, Yicong Hong, Jonah Casebeer, Feng Liu, Yun Fu

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SIGGRAPH 2025

MotionCanvas: Cinematic Shot Design with Controllable Image-to-Video Generation

Jinbo Xing, Long Mai, Cusuh Ham, Jiahui Huang, Aniruddha Mahapatra, Chi-Wing Fu, Tien-Tsin Wong, Feng Liu

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ECCV 2024

Co-speech Gesture Video Generation with 3D Human Meshess

Aniruddha Mahapatra*, Richa Mishra*, Renda Li, Ziyi Chen, Boyang Ding, Shoulei Wang, Jun-Yan Zhu, Peng Chang, Mei Han, Jing Xiao

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CVPR 2024

On the Content Bias in Fréchet Video Distance

Songwei Ge, Aniruddha Mahapatra, Gaurav Parmar, Jun-Yan Zhu, Jia-Bin Huang

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SIGGRAPH Asia (ACM Transactions on Graphics) 2023

Text-Guided Synthesis of Eulerian Cinemagraphs

Aniruddha Mahapatra, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Hsin-Ying Lee,Sergey Tulyakov, Jun-Yan Zhu

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CVPR 2022

Controllable Animation of Fluid Elements in Still Images

Aniruddha Mahapatra, Kuldeep Kulkarni

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EMNLP 2022

⭐ Oral

Entity Extraction in Low Resource Domains with Selective Pre-training of Large Language Models

Aniruddha Mahapatra, Snarmila Nangi, Aparna Garimella, Anandhavelu Natarajan

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ICCV 2019

SemIE: Semantically-aware Image Extrapolation

Bholeshwar Khurana, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Abhishek Bhatia, Aniruddha Mahapatra, Hrituraj Singh, Kuldeep Kulkarni

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Experience

2024—Present

Adobe Research

Research Scientist / Engineer

Summer 2023

Snap Research

Research Scientist Intern

2020—2022

Adobe Research

Research Associate

Summer 2019

Adobe Research

Research Intern

Education

2022—2023

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science in Computer Vision (MSCV)

Advisor: Prof. Jun-Yan Zhu

2016—2020

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR)

B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Balasubramanian Raman