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Ionuţ Mironică

ML Research Scientist


Biography: I am an Applied Research Leader at Adobe Firefly, and I am working on products that leverages generative AI to enable creative and expressive designs. With over 13 years of R&D experience in machine learning and computer vision, I have a strong track record of developing and applying cutting-edge algorithms to solve real-world problems and enhance user experiences. I hold a PhD in multimedia information retrieval and machine learning, and I have multiple patents and awards for my innovative work in this field. In my current role, I lead a team of talented ML researchers and engineers to develop state-of-the-art algorithms for Firefly, in domains such as design generation, vectorial images, and large language models. I have also contributed to the development of Neural Filters for Adobe Photoshop, one of the most popular and advanced features that uses AI to transform and enhance images (Old Photo Restoration, Automatic Colorisation, Style Transfer, Super Zoom, Jpeg Artefacts Removal etc). My mission is to bring the state-of-the-art Generative AI algorithms to millions of users and empower them to unleash their creativity. Prior to joining as a researcher on various companies, I spent nine memorable years as PhD, Post-Doctoral Researcher and Assistant Professor at University Politechnica Of Bucharest, in the Image Processing and Analysis Laboratory. I obtained my PhD in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Radu Dogaru. My research interests includes content based multimedia retrieval, computer vision and machine learning.

Internships: I am always happy to host and mentor PhD and motivated MSc students. If you would like to work with me, please send me an email describing your past experience and current research interests. Make sure to include your CV and a paragraph about specific topics you would like to explore during your internship. In the past I have had the pleasure to collaborate with the following interns: Adrian Ungureanu, Andrei Zugravu, Andreea Birhala, Marian Lupascu, Alexandru Ilie, Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu-Contes, Ioan Rusu, Mihai-Eugen Barbu and Himanshu Ranjan. If you are interested for an inteship in the state-of-the-art ML, please feel free to send me a message on Linkedin.

Publications

US Patents

  1. Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Hareesh Ravi, Sachin Kelkar, Ionuţ Mironică: "SPATIALLY AWARE COLOR CONDITIONING FOR DIFFUSION NEURAL NETWORKS", 2024
  2. Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu-Contes, Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Marian Lupascu, Ionuţ Mironică: "GENERATING VECTORIAL PATTERNS WITH SPARSITY CONTROL", 2024
  3. Paul Sumedrea, Alexandru Ilie, Teodor Popescu, Ionuţ Mironică: "PRESENTATION GENERATION USING KNOWLEDGE GRAPH-INFORMED CONTENT FITTING", 2024
  4. Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu-Contes, Marian Lupascu, Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Ionuţ Mironică: "GENERATING SCALABLE VECTOR TEXT EFFECTS", 2024
  5. Ionuţ Mironică, Anand Khanna, Ashutosh Sharma, Nikolaos Vlassis, Stefan Dumitrescu, Oliver Brdiczka, Alok Kumar Singh: "DESIGN GENERATION USING STYLE AND MOOD EMBEDDINGS", 2024
  6. Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Marian Lupascu, Hareesh Ravi, Ionuţ Mironică: "VECTOR IMAGE GENERATION WITH STYLE IMAGE", 2023
  7. Marian Lupascu, Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu-Contes, Ionuţ Mironică, Vineet Batra: "IMAGE GENERATION WITH ADJUSTABLE COMPLEXITY", 2024
  8. Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu-Contes, Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Ionuţ Mironică: "ENHANCING AND EXPANDING CREATIVITY AND DIVERSITY IN DIFFUSION MODELS", 2024
  9. Marian Lupascu, Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu-Contes, Ionuţ Mironică, Vineet Batra: "TEXT-GUIDED VECTOR IMAGE SYNTHESIS", 2024
  10. Marian Lupascu, Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu, Ionuţ Mironică: "GENERATING SCALABLE VECTOR TEXT EFFECTS", 2024
  11. Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu, Nicu-Razvan Stancioiu, Andrei Mario Dinu, Ionuţ Mironică: "DYNAMIC FRAME GENERATION USING GENERATIVE MACHINE LEARNING", 2024
  12. Mihai Udvuleanu, Andrei-Adrian Dinu, Marian Lupașcu,Ionuţ Mironică: "GRAPHIC TEMPLATE CUSTOMIZATION USING SIMPLE TEXT PROMPTS", 2024
  13. Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu, Ionuţ Mironică: "TEXTURE BASED CONSISTENCY FOR GENERATIVE AI ASSETS, EFFECTS AND ANIMATIONS", 2024
  14. Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Ionuţ Mironică, Oliver Brdiczka, Stefan Dumitrescu: "GENERATING FULL DESIGNS FROM TEXT", 2024
  15. Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Oliver Brdiczka, Ionuţ Mironică, Alexandru Costin: "GENERATING TEMPLATES USING STRUCTURE-BASED MATCHING", 2023
  16. Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Oliver Brdiczka, Ionuţ Mironică, Alexandru Costin: "GENERATING DESIGN TEMPLATE REMIXES USING STRUCTURE-BASED TEMPLATE MATCHING", 2023
  17. Marian Lupascu, Adrian-Stefan Ungureanu-Contes, Ionuţ Mironică: "EVALUATING BIAS IN GENERATIVE MODELS", 2022
  18. Marian Lupascu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Avram: "DESIGN COMPOSITING USING IMAGE HARMONIZATION", 2023
  19. Marian Lupascu Ionuţ Mironică, Catalin Buzoiu, Alexandru Costin: "SMART IMAGE HARMONIZATION FOR TEXT MATCHING ON DESIGN DOCUMENTS", 2022
  20. Marian Lupascu, Ryan Murdock, Ionuţ Mironică, Yijun Li: "Generating Artistic Content from a Text Prompt or a Style Image Utilizing a Neural Network Model", 2022.
  21. Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Ionuţ Mironică, Oliver Brdiczka, Alexandru Costin: "Utilizing a Transformer-Based Generative Language Model to Generate Digital Design Document Variations", 2022.
  22. Adrian Ungureanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Richard Zhang: "Generating Colorized Digital Images Utilizinga Re-Colorization Neural Network with Local Hints", 2021.
  23. Ionuţ Mironică: "Removing Compression Artifacts from Digital Images and Videos Utilizing Generative Machine-Learning Models", 2021.
  24. Yijun Li, Ionuţ Mironică: "Universal Style Transfer using Multi-Scale Feature Transform and User Controls", 2021.
  25. Ionuţ Mironică, Yijun Li: "Restoring Degraded Digital Images through a Deep Learning Framework", 2021.
  26. Ionuţ Mironică: "Methods and Systems for Automatically Correcting Image Rotation", 2020.
  27. Ionuţ Mironică, Andreea Birhala: "Recommendation Engine for Complex Content-Aware Collage Composing", 2020.
  28. Ionuţ Mironică, Oscar Bolanos, Andreea Birhala: "Correcting Dust and Scratch Artifacts in Digital Images", 2020.
  29. Ionuţ Mironică: "Systems and methods for generating typhographical images or videos", 2020.

Books

  1. Bogdan Ionescu, Ionuţ Mironică: "The Content-Based Indexing Paradigm in the Context of Multimodal Data" (in romanian - "Conceptul de Indexare Automata dupa Continut în Contextul Datelor Multimedia"), Publishing House "Editura Matrix Rom", to appear, 2013, (112 pages). download draft PDF

Journal Papers

  1. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Jasper Uijlings, Nicu Sebe, "Fisher Kernel Temporal Variation-based Relevance Feedback for Video Retrieval", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), accepted paper 2015 (40 pages, ISI Impact Factor 2.13 - DOI:10.1016/j.cviu.2015.10.005). download draft PDF
  2. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Diversification of Social Image Retrieval Results", Multimedia Tools and Applications, special issue on "Content Based Multimedia Indexing" (31 pages, ISI Impact Factor 1.3), 2016.
  3. Ionuţ Mironică, Ionuţ Duţă, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, "A Modified Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors Approach for Fast Video Classification", Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), (31 pages, ISI Impact Factor 1.3 - DOI:10.1007/s11042-015-2819-7). download draft PDF
  4. Ionuţ Mironică, Cătălin Mitrea, Bogdan Ionescu, Patrick Lambert, "A Fisher Kernel Approach for Multiple Instance Based Object Retrieval in Video Surveillance", Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering (AECE), (10 pages, ISI Impact Factor 0.6). download draft PDF
  5. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Radu Dogaru, "Cellular Automata Bag of Visual Words for Object Recognition", in Scientific Bulletin of UPB, Series C - Electrical Engineering, 2014 (accepted paper) download draft PDF
  6. Ionuţ Mironică, Radu Dogaru, "A novel feature-extraction algorithm for efficient classification of texture images", in Scientific Bulletin of UPB, Series C - Electrical Engineering, 2013 download draft PDF
  7. B. Ionescu, K. Seyerlehner, Ionuţ Mironică, C. Vertan, P. Lambert, "An Audio-Visual Approach to Web Video Categorization", Multimedia Tools and Applications, special issue on "Multimedia on the Web", 2012 (ISI Impact Factor 1.3). (download draft PDF - link to Springer article)

Publications in international conferences

  1. Marian Lupascu, Ionuţ Mironică, Mihai Sorin Stupariu, "Neural Contrast: Leveraging Generative Editing for Graphic Design Recommendations", Pacific RIM International Conference on Artificial Intelligence PRICAI 2024 draft paper arxiv paper
  2. Marian Lupascu, Ryan Murdock, Ionuţ Mironică, Yijun Li, "A Fast Text-Driven Approach for Generating Artistic Content", SIGGRAPH 2022 video | draft paper | suplimentary material.
  3. Andreea Birhala, Ionuţ Mironică, "ReflectNet - A Generative Adversarial Method for Single Image Reflection Suppression", CoRR abs/2105.05216 (2021) download draft PDF
  4. Ionuţ Mironică, Andrei Zugravu, "A Fast Deep Learning Network for Automatic Image Auto-Straightening", CoRR abs/2105.05787 (2021) download draft PDF
  5. Ionuţ Mironică, "A Generative Adversarial Approach with Residual Learning for Dust and Scratches Artifacts Removal", ACM Multimedia, The 2nd workshop on Structuring and Understanding of Multimedia heritAge Contents, 2020 download draft PDF
  6. Negar Rostamzadeh, Jasper Uijlings, Ionuţ Mironică, Mojtaba Khomami Abadi, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, "Cluster Enconding for Modelling Temporal Variation in Video", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - ICIP, September 27-30, Quebec City, Canada, 2015. download draft PDF.
  7. Markus Schedl, Mats Sjobergy, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Vu Lam Quang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Claire-Helene Demarty, "VSD2014: A Dataset for Violent Scenes Detection in Hollywood Movies and Web Videos", International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI, June 10-12, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015 (6 pages) download draft PDF.
  8. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "Diversification with Fisher Kernel Pseudo-Feedback", IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems - ISSCS, July 9-10, Iasi, Romania, 2015 (4 pages) download draft PDF.
  9. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "Hierarchical Clustering Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Social Image Search Result Diversification", International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI, June 10-12, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015 (6 pages) download draft PDF.
  10. Cătălin Mitrea, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Radu Dogaru, "Fast Support Vector Classifier for Automated Content-based Search in Video Surveillance", IEEE ISSCS -International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 9-10, Iasi, Romania, 2015 (4 pages) download draft PDF.
  11. Ionuţ Mironică, Ionuţ Duţa, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, "Beyond Bag-of-Words: Fast Video Classification with Fisher Kernel Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, 29 June - 3 July, Torino, Italy, 2015 download draft PDF.
  12. Cătălin Mitrea, Ionuţ Mironică, B. Ionescu, R. Dogaru, "Multiple Instance – based Object Retrieval in Video Surveillance: Dataset and Evaluation", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, September 4-6, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014.   download draft PDF.
  13. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "A Relevance Feedback Perspective to Image Search Result Diversification", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, September 4-6, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014.   download draft PDF.
  14. Ionuţ Mironică, Jasper Uijlings, Negar Rostamzadeh, Bogdan Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, "Time Matters! Capturing Variation in Time in Video using Fisher Kernels", ACM Multimedia, 21-25 October, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.   download draft PDF & download poster.
  15. Negar Rostamzadeh, Gloria Zen, Ionuţ Mironică, Jasper Uijlings, Nicu Sebe, "Daily Living Activities Recognition via Efficient High and Low Level Cues Combination and Fisher Kernel Representation", IEEE International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP, Napoli, Italy, September, 2013.   download draft PDF.
  16. Ionuţ Mironică, B. Ionescu, P. Knees, P. Lambert, "An In-Depth Evaluation of Multimodal Video Genre Categorization", IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 17-19 June, Veszprém, Hungary, 2013   download draft PDF download presentation.
  17. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, C. Rasche, Patrick Lambert, "A Visual-Based Late-Fusion Framework for Video Genre Classification", IEEE ISSCS -International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 11-12, Iasi, Romania, 2013 (4 pages)   download draft PDF.
  18. Radu Vieriu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Goras, "Background Invariant Static Hand Gesture Recognition based on Hidden Markov Models", IEEE ISSCS -International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, July 11-12, Iasi, Romania, 2013 (4 pages).   download draft PDF.
  19. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Jasper Uijlings, Nicu Sebe, "Fisher Kernel based Relevance Feedback for Multimodal Video Retrieval", ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2013, Dallas, Texas, USA, April 16 - 19, 2013   download draft PDF. download presentation
  20. Bogdan Ionescu, Jasper Schlüter, Ionuţ Mironică, Markus Schedl, "A Naive Mid-level Concept-based Fusion Approach to Violence Detection in Hollywood Movies", ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval - ICMR 2013, Dallas, Texas, USA, April 16 - 19, 2013   download draft PDF.
  21. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Constantin Vertan, "The Influence of the Similarity Measure to Relevance Feedback", 20th European Signal Processing Conference - EUSIPCO 2012, August 27-31, Bucharest, Romania, 2012   download draft PDF
  22. Bogdan Ionescu, Klaus Seyerlehner, Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan, Patrick Lambert, "Automatic Web Video Categorization using Audio-Visual Information and Hierarchical Clustering Relevance Feedback", 20th European Signal Processing Conference - EUSIPCO 2012, August 27-31, Bucharest, Romania, 2012 download draft PDF
  23. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Constantin Vertan, "Hierarchical Clustering Relevance Feedback for Content-Based Image Retrieval", IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 27-29 June, Annecy, France, 2012   download draft PDF
  24. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan, Dan Cristian Gheorghe "Automatic Pediatric Otitis Detection by Classification of Global Image Features", International Conference on e-Health and Bioengineering, EHB 2011   IEEE link  ppt presentation
  25. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan "A Modified Feature Relevance Estimation Approach to Relevance Feedback in Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems", Signal Processing and Applied Mathematics for Electronics and Communications August 26-28, 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania  EURASIP link
  26. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan, Bogdan Ionescu "A Relevance Feedback Approach to Video Genre Retrieval", 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing August 25-27, 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania   IEEE link  draft  ppt presentation
  27. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan "An adaptive hierarchical clustering approach for relevance feedback in content-based image retrieval systems", Signals, Circuits and Systems (ISSCS), 2011 10th International Symposium on June 30 2011-July 1 2011, Iasi Romania  IEEE link
  28. Ionuţ Mironică, Radu Dogaru "A comparison between various classification methods for image classification stage in CBIR", Signals, Circuits and Systems (ISSCS), 2011 10th International Symposium on June 30 2011-July 1 2011, Iasi Romania  IEEE link
  29. Ionuţ Mironică, Constantin Vertan "Relevance feedback approaches for MPEG-7 content-based biomedical image retrieval", Communications (COMM), 2010 8th International Conference on 10-12 June 2010 Bucharest Romania, on pages: 185 - 188   IEEE link  

Working notes papers

  1. Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Mats Sjöberg, Markus Schedl, Marcin Skowron, "RFA at MediaEval 2015 Affective Impact of Movies Task: A Multimodal Approach", MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation Workshop, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN: 1613-0073, (2 pages, download article PDF).
  2. Bogdan Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, "LAPI @ 2015 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: A Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Diversification Perspective", MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation Workshop, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN: 1613-0073, (2 pages, download article PDF).
  3. B. Boteanu, Ionuţ Mironică, A.-L. Radu, B. Ionescu, "LAPI @ 2014 Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task: A Relevance Feedback Diversification Perspective", MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation workshop, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN: 1613-0073, (2 pages, download article PDF).

Awards

Talks

Service

Reviewer on: Proceedings chair

Teaching


2) Human Machine Interface (in romanian, postgraduate cycle, master's degree, 2st year) - Course (2015-2019)

3) Data Analysis and Machine Learning (in romanian, postgraduate cycle, master's degree, 1st year) - Laboratory (2013-2019)
4) Image Processing and Analysis Project (2016-2017) (in romanian, undergraduate cycle, license, 1st year) - Project
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5) Computer Programming Fundamentals: C Language (2013-2015) (in romanian, undergraduate cycle, license, 1st year) - Laboratory

6) Multimedia Analysis, Processing and Indexing (2015-2017) (in romanian, postgraduate cycle, master's degree, 1st year) - Laboratory