Publications

Factorized Motion Diffusion for Precise and Character-Agnostic Motion Inbetweening

November 21, 2024
Motion, Interaction and Games (2024)

Justin Studer (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Dhruv Agrawal (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Dominik Borer (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Seyedmorteza Sadat (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Controllable Inversion of Black-Box Face Recognition Models via Diffusion

October 2, 2023, Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures 2023

Manuel Kansy (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD)
Anton Rael  (ETH Zurich)
Graziana Mignone (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios /ETH Zurich)
Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Graph-Based Synthesis for Skin Micro Wrinkles

July 3, 2023
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (2023)

Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Jonathan Moulin (Industrial Light & Magic) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley(DisneyResearch|Studios)

Self-Supervised Effective Resolution Estimation with Adversarial Augmentations

January 3, 2023
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (2023)

Manuel Kansy (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Julian Balletshofer (DisneyResearch|Studios) Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Graziana Mignone (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Production-Ready Face Re-Aging for Visual Effects

November 30, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2022)

Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Eftychios Sifakis (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Learning Dynamic 3D Geometry and Texture for Video Face Swapping

October 05, 2022
Pacific Graphics (2022)

Christopher Otto (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios) Leonhard Helminger (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Thomas Etterlin (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Graziana Mignone (DisneyResearch|Studios) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Training a Deep Remastering Model

July 24, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH 2022

Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Sally Hattori (The Walt Disney Company) Andrew J. Wahlquist (The Walt Disney Company) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Facial Hair Tracking for High Fidelity Performance Capture

July 24, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH 2022

Sebastian Winberg (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Improved Lighting Models for Facial Appearance Capture

April 25, 2022
Eurographics 2022

Yingyan Xu (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Jérémy Riviere (DisneyResearch|Studios) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Adaptive Convolutions for Structure-Aware Style Transfer

June 19, 2021
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021

Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Semantic Deep Face Models

November 25, 2020
3D International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) (2020)

Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD), Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios), Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich), Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Interactive Sculpting of Digital Faces Using an Anatomical Modeling Paradigm

July 6, 2020
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (2020)

Aurel Gruber (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Marco Fratarcangeli (Chalmers University of Technology/DisneyResearch|Studios) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Roman Cattaneo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

High-Resolution Neural Face Swapping for Visual Effects

June 29, 2020
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2020)

Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios) Leonhard Helminger (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Neural Sequential Phrase Grounding (SeqGROUND)

June 16, 2019
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019

Pelin Dogan (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Leonid Sigal (University of British Columbia/Vector Institute) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Learning-based Sampling for Natural Image Matting

June 16, 2019
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019

Jingwei Tang (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Yagız Aksoy (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Oztireli (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research)

Disentangled Dynamic Representations from Unordered Data

December 2, 2018
Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference 2018

Leonhard Helminger (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Aziz Djelouah (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Romann Weber (Disney Research)

Denoising Deep Monte Carlo Renderings

August 27, 2018
EU Computer Graphics Forum (EU CGF) 2018

Delio Vicini (Disney Research/Walt Disney Animation Studios) David Adler (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Jan Novak (Disney Research) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Brent Burley (Walt Disney Animation Studios)

Denoising with Kernel Prediction and Asymmetric Loss Functions

July 30, 2018
ACM SIGGRAPH 2018

Thijs Vogels (Disney Research) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research) Gerhard Röthlin (Disney Research) Alex Harvill (Pixar Animation Studios) David Adler (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Mark Meyer (Pixar Animation Studios) Jan Novak (Disney Research)

Quasi Monte Carlo Variational Inference

July 9, 2018
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018

Alexander Buchholz (ENSAE-CREST) Florian Wenzel (Humboldt University of Berlin) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research)

Iterative Amortized Inference

July 9, 2018
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018

Joe Marino (California Institute of Technology (Caltech)) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology (Caltech)) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research) 

Computer-Assisted Authoring for Natural Language Story Scripts

February 4, 2018
30th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-18) 2018

Rushit Sanghrajka (Disney Research) Wojciech Witoń (Disney Research) Sasha Schriber (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Mubbasir Kapadia (Disney Research/Rutgers University)

InspireMe: Learning Sequence Models for Stories

February 4, 2018
30th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-18) 2018

Vincent Fortuin (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Romann M. Weber (Disney Research) Sasha Schriber (Disney Research) Diana Wotruba (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Methods for Studying Group Interactions in HRI

September 13, 2017
Robots in Groups and Teams – A CSCW 2017 Workshop 2017

Marynel Vazquez (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Elizabeth J. Carter (Disney Research) Jodi Forlizzi (Disney Research/HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Scott E. Hudson (Disney Research/HCI Insitute, Carnegie Mellon University) Aaron Steinfeld (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)

Augmented Reality Dialog Interface for Multimodal Teleoperation

August 28, 2017
International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2017

Andre Pereira (Disney Research) Elizabeth J. Carter (Disney Research) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) John Mars (Disney Research) Jill Lehmann (Disney Research)

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)

Dynamic Word Embeddings

August 6, 2017
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2017

Robert Bamler (Disney Research) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research)

Coordinated Multi-Agent Imitation Learning

August 6, 2017
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2017

Hoang Le (California Institute of Technology) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Patrick Lucey (STATS LLC)

Factorized Variational Autoencoders for Modeling Audience Reactions to Movies

July 22, 2017
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017

Zhiwei Deng (Simon Fraser University) Rajitha Navarathna (Disney Research)  Peter Carr (Disney Research) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research) Ysong Yue (Caltech) Iain Mathews (Disney Research) Greg Mori (Simon Fraser University) 

Smooth Imitation Learning for Online Sequence Prediction

June 19, 2016
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2016

Hoang M. Le (California Institute of Technology) Andrew Kang (California Institute of Technology) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research)

Predicting Movie Ratings from Audience Behaviors

March 24, 2016
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

Rajitha Navarathna (Disney Research/Queensland University of Technology) Patrick Lucey (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Elizabeth Carter (Carnegie Mellon University) Sridha Sridharan (Queensland University of Technology) Iain Matthews (Disney Research)

Smooth Imitation Learning

December 12, 2015
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2015

Hoang M. Le (California Institute of Technology) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research)

Recent Advances in Facial Appearance Capture

May 8, 2015
Eurographics 2015

Oliver Klehm (MPI Informatik) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Marios Papas (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Christophe Hery (Pixar) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Proximal operators for multi-agent path planning

January 25, 2015
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2015

Jose Bento (Disney Research) Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Charles Mathy (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)

Automatic Editing of Footage from Multiple Social Cameras

July 27, 2014
ACM SIGGRAPH 2014

Ido Arev (Disney Research/The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) Hyun Soo Park (Carnegie Mellon University) Yaser Sheikh (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Arik Shamir (Disney Research/The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya)

Efficient Elasticity for Character Skinning with Contact and Collisions

August 7, 2011
ACM SIGGRAPH 2011

Aleka McAdams (Walt Disney Animation Studios/University of California, Los Angeles) Yongning Zhu (PDI/DreamWorks) Andrew Selle (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Mark Empey (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Rasmus Tamstorf (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Joseph Teran (University of California, Los Angeles/Walt Disney Animation Studios) Eftychios Sifakis (University of Wisconsin, Madison/Walt Disney Animation Studios)