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

Generalized Audio-Driven Synthesis of Precise Drummer Motion

August 18, 2026
arXiv (2026)

Álvaro G. Iñesta (The Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI, Tel-Aviv University)
Mattia Ryffel (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Amit H. Bermano (DisneyResearch|Studios/The Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI, Tel-Aviv University/ETH Zurich)
Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Interactive Generative Motion Editing via Scheduled Inpainting

Two2Four: Generative Quadruped Puppeteering from Human Motion

July 30, 2026
arXiv (2026)

Fatemeh Zargarbashi (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Zehong Qiu (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Dhruv Agrawal (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Stelian Coros (ETH Zurich)
Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)

SmoothMotionVectors: Optimizing Your Content for Video Codecs in Free View Video Compression

July 16, 2026
SIGGRAPH (2026)

Mingyang Song (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Siyu Tang (ETH Zurich)
Tunç Ozan Aydin (DisneyResearch|Studios)

2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization

July 16, 2026
SIGGRAPH (2026)

Tianhao Chen (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Clara Fernandez (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Marteinn Oskarsson (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Chuck Tappan (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Ragged Neighborhood Attention for Spatiotemporal Neural Denoising of Deep Monte Carlo Renderings