Researches generating and editing images and video. His coauthored projects expose the difference between following an editing instruction and keeping a scene coherent over time.
Why read Tim Brooks?
Start with the coauthored InstructPix2Pix project when you want to change a picture using a written instruction. Its paired examples show what changed and what should stay intact, alongside failures involving viewpoint changes and excessive edits. Brooks and Aleksander Holynski share equal contribution, with Alexei Efros also credited.
For video, his coauthored long-video paper examines a different problem: generating new scenery without losing continuity or repeatedly returning to the same scene. The dataset and evaluation sections make that distinction concrete. This 2022 research explains a mechanism; his own biography now places him at Meta Superintelligence Labs.
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Coauthored research project
InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions
What changes when you edit an image with words? This coauthored project pairs input images, instructions and results, then shows failure cases. Read the examples before the linked technical paper.
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XFollowList, “InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions” reading notes in the Tim Brooks profile. https://xfollowlist.com/people/tim-brooks#work-8914ff65ab49
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Generating Long Videos of Dynamic Scenes
How can new scenery appear without destroying continuity? This coauthored paper explains a two-stage video model and compares temporal behavior on specific datasets. Start with the introduction and sections 4–5.
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XFollowList, “Generating Long Videos of Dynamic Scenes” reading notes in the Tim Brooks profile. https://xfollowlist.com/people/tim-brooks#work-acc07325e769
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Projects & roles
InstructPix2Pix
Image-editing research project by Brooks, Holynski and Efros.
Tim Brooks research
His own index connects image and video research to project pages, papers and code.
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- His current biography says he leads media generation at Meta Superintelligence Labs; DeepMind and OpenAI roles are earlier work.
- His GitHub profile links his own site and @_tim_brooks on X; its older OpenAI biography is not used as a current affiliation.
- Current public profile metadata identifies Tim Brooks, names Meta and links timothybrooks.com.
- The InstructPix2Pix author record establishes the paper's first submission on 17 November 2022. The project-page publication date is left unset.
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XFollowList, Tim Brooks profile sources. Sources checked 2026-10-11. https://xfollowlist.com/people/tim-brooks#sources-checked