Artificial Intelligence
We are working to endow computers and robots with many of the qualities long associated with living, thinking beings—from perception and action to reasoning, problem solving, and even creativity! Here we are going beyond simply building the next generation of smart tools and are instead finding new ways to bring our treasured characters to life.
Latest Publications
Kernel Aware Resampler
June 4, 2023
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
Michael Bernasconi (DisneyResearch|Studios) / ETH Zurich), Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) , Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studios), Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios /ETH Zurich), Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
StoryPrint: an Interactive Visualization of Stories
March 17, 2019
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST) 2019
Kate Watson (Disney Research) Sasha Schriber (Disney Research) Carlos Muniz (Rutgers University) Samuel Sohn (Rutgers University) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University)
Incremental Acquisition and Reuse of Multimodal Affective Behaviors in a Conversational Agent
December 16, 2018
International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction 2018
Maike Paetzel (Disney Research/Uppsala) James Kennedy (Disney Research) Ginevra Castellano (Uppsala University) Jill Lehman (Disney Research)
A Two-Level Planning Framework for Mixed Reality Interactive Narratives with User Engagement
December 10, 2018
IEEE AIVR 2018
Manuel Braunschweiler (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)
Learning and Reusing Dialog for Repeated Interactions with a Situated Social Agent
August 27, 2017
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2017
James Kennedy (Disney Research) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research, KTH Royal Institute of Technology) André Pereira (Disney Research) Ming Sun (Disney Research) Boyang Li (Disney Research) Rishub Jain (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Ricson Cheng (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Eli Pincus (Disney Research/USC Institute for Creative Technologies) Elizabeth J. Carter (Disney Research) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research)
Predicting the Quality of Short Narratives from Social Media
August 19, 2017
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2017
Tong Wang (Disney Research/University of Massachusetts Boston) Ping Chen (University of Massachusetts Boston) Boyang Albert Li (Disney Research)