Research
Continuing a legacy of innovation
DisneyResearch|Studios combines the best of academia and industry, by doing fundamental and application-driven research. We publish our work and actively engage with the global research community. Our research applications and technology are experienced by millions of people. We honor Walt Disney’s legacy by deploying our innovations on a global scale.
Our Research Areas
Machine Learning
Probabilistic modeling & deep learning.
Visual Computing
Computer Graphics and Computer Vision.
Latest Publications
Spatiotemporal Diffusion Priors for Extreme Video Compression
December 7, 2025
Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) (2025)
Lucas Relic (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
André Emmenegger (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Roberto Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Implicit Bézier Motion Model for Precise Spatial and Temporal Control
December 3, 2025
Motion in Games (2025)
Luca Vögeli (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Dhruv Agrawal (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Dominik Borer (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Robert Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Multimodal Conditional 3D Face Geometry Generation
October 26, 2025
Shape Modeling International (SMI) (2025)
Christopher Otto (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Images
October 18, 2025
Workshop on Human-Interactive Generation and Editing (2025)
Xinya Ji (ETH Zurich, Nanjing University)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Lingchen Yang (ETH Zurich)
Xun Cao (Nanjing University)
Barbara Solenthaler (ETH Zurich)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
LDIP: Long Distance Information Propagation for Video Super-Resolution
October 16, 2025
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2025)
Michael Bernasconi (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Monocular Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild
October 16, 2025
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2025)
Yingyan Xu(ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Kate Gadola (ETH Zurich)
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)