Richard Zhang
Principal Scientist at Adobe Research; first author of the LPIPS perceptual metric and image colorization work
- Principal Scientist, Adobe Research1
Richard Zhang is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Research, and Zhang's homepage lists research interests in computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, graphics, and image processing. Zhang is first author of "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric" (CVPR 2018), whose BSD-licensed PerceptualSimilarity repository provides the LPIPS metric as the pip-installable lpips package. Zhang is also first author of "Colorful Image Colorization" (ECCV 2016), with code released in the richzhang/colorization repository. Zhang's recent papers, listed on the homepage, cover image and video generation, diffusion distillation, and image editing.123456
Work
LPIPS (PerceptualSimilarity) (external site: github.com)Open-source code
First author, with Phillip Isola, Alexei A. Efros, Eli Shechtman, and Oliver Wang, of the CVPR 2018 paper introducing the learned perceptual metric. The repository, released under a BSD-style license that names Zhang among the copyright holders, provides the metric through the lpips Python package.2341
Colorful Image Colorization (external site: github.com)Open-source code
First author, with Phillip Isola and Alexei A. Efros, of the ECCV 2016 paper on automatic image colorization; the accompanying repository is released under a BSD-style license that names the three authors as copyright holders.561
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