Aaron Hertzmann Principal Scientist, Adobe Research San Francisco, CA ACM Fellow (About), IEEE Fellow Affiliate Professor, University of Washington Editor-in-Chief, FnTCG&V aaron.hertzmann at gmail

• SIGGRAPH Award Talk: My journey in art and computing [Text/links]
• Can Computers Create Art? Lessons from Art History (SIGGRAPH 2025 Opening Keynote)
• Picture perspective (VSAC 2025 Opening Keynote)

• Per-Fixation Perspective in Scientific Reports, 2025 [Paper]
• Perspective in Drawings, Photographs, and Perception in Art & Perception, 2025 [Paper] [Preprint]
• Toward a Theory of Perspective in Journal of Vision, 2024 [Paper] [Short version] [Webpage] [Talk]
• The Choices Hidden in Photography in Journal of Vision, 2022 [Paper]
• Why Does Line Drawing Work? in Perception, 2020, 2021 [Papers/Blog]

• MaDCoW: Marginal Distortion Correction in Wide-Angle Photography at CVPR 2025 [Paper]
• New Insights in Occluding Contours in IEEE CG&A, 2024 [Paper] [Blog post]
• Art and the Science of Generative AI in Science, 2023 [Paper] [Whitepaper]
• Can Computers Create Art? in Arts, 2018 [Paper] [Talk]

Adobe received a 2025 Technical Emmy award for Premiere VR editing features based on our research

Publications (by Area, Google Scholar)
Blog on art, computing, and academia
Talks on YouTube
Art (Paintings on Instagram)
CV

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