April 23, 2025
ICLR (2025)
Seyedmorteza Sadat (ETH Zurich)
Otmar Hilliges (ETH Zurich)
Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Publications
No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Classifier-Free Guidance for Diffusion Models
April 23, 2025
ICLR (2025)
Seyedmorteza Sadat (ETH Zurich)
Manuel Kansy (ETH Zurich)
Otmar Hilliges (ETH Zurich)
Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)
LiteVAE: Lightweight and Efficient Variational Autoencoders for Latent Diffusion Models
December 10, 2024
NIPS (2024)
Seyedmorteza Sadat (ETH Zurich)
Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Otmar Hilliges (ETH Zurich)
Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)
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)
CADS: Unleashing the Diversity of Diffusion Models Through Condition-Annealed Sampling
May 6, 2024
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024
Seyedmorteza Sadat (ETH Zurich)
Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Otmar Hilliges (ETH Zurich)
Romann M. Weber (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)
The Score-Difference Flow for Implicit Generative Modeling
July 2023, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2023
Romann 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)
Facial Animation with Disentangled Identity and Motion using Transformers
September 13, 2022
ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2022
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (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)
Local Anatomically-Constrained Facial Performance Retargeting
July 24, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Loïc Ciccone (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
MoRF: Morphable Radiance Fields for Multiview Neural Head Modeling
July 24, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
Daoye Wang (ETH Zürich) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (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)
Implicit Neural Representation for Physics-driven Actuated Soft Bodies
July 24, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
LingchenYang (ETH Zürich) Byungsoo Kim (ETH Zürich) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Baran Gözcü (ETH Zürich) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH) Barbara Solenthaler (ETH Zürich)
Shape Transformers: Topology-Independent 3D Shape Models Using Transformers
April 25, 2022
Eurographics 2022
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) 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)
Rendering with Style: Combining Traditional and Neural Approaches for High-Quality Face Rendering
November 30, 2021
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Sebastian Winberg (DisneyResearch|Studios) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Jérémy Riviere (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (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)
Data-driven Extraction and Composition of Secondary Dynamics in Facial Performance Capture
August 17, 2020
ACM Siggraph 2020
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Eftychios Sifakis (University of Wisconsin, Madison/DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Single-Shot High-Quality Facial Geometry and Skin Appearance Capture
August 14, 2020
ACM Siggraph 2020
Jeremy Riviere (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Abhijeet Ghosh (Imperial College London) 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)
Attention-Driven Cropping for Very High Resolution Facial Landmark Detection
June 16, 2020
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Fast Nonlinear Least Squares Optimization of Large-Scale Semi-Sparse Problems
May 25, 2020
Eurographics 2020
Marco Fratarcangeli (Chalmers University of Technology/DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Aurel Gruber (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Facial Expression Synthesis using a Global-Local Multilinear Framework
May 25, 2020
Eurographics 2020
Mengjiao Wang (DisneyResearch|Studios Intern) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College London) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Differentiable Surface Splatting for Point-based Geometry Processing
November 1, 2019
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019
Yifan Wang (ETH Zurich) Serena Felice (ETH Zurich) Wu Shihao (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Oztireli (DisneyResearch|Studios) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)
Spectrogram Feature Losses for Music Source Separation
September 2, 2019
Eusipco 2019
Abhimanyu Sahai (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Romann Weber (Disney Research) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research)
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)
Explaining Deep Neural Networks with a Polynomial Time Algorithm for Shapley Value Approximation
June 10, 2019
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019
Marco Ancona (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Oztireli (Disney Research) 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)
PICA: Proactive Intelligent Conversational Agent for Interactive Narratives
November 5, 2018
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2018
Jessica Falk (ETH Zurich) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Robert W. Sumner (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)
Disentangled Sequential Autoencoder
July 1, 2018
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018
Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research)
Improving Optimization in Models with Continuous Symmetry Breaking
July 1, 2018
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018
Robert Bamler (Disney Research) Stephan Mandt (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)
Automated Deep Reinforcement Learning Environment for Hardware of a Modular Legged Robot
June 27, 2018
International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots 2018
Sehoon Ha (Disney Research) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (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)
Deep Deformable Patch Metric Learning for Person Re-identification
November 15, 2017
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) 2017
Slawomir Bak (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research)
Scheduling Live Interactive Narratives with Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
October 5, 2017
The 13th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 2017
Sasha Azad (Disney Research) Jingyang Xu (Decision Science, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts) Haining Yu (Decision Science, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts) Boyang Li (Disney Research)
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)
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)
Determinantal Point Processes for Mini-Batch Diversification
August 12, 2017
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2017
Cheng Zhang (Disney Research) Hedvig Kjellström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Stephan Mandt (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)
One-Shot Metric Learning for Person Re-identification
July 22, 2017
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017
Slawomir Bak (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research)
Weakly-supervised Visual Grounding of Phrases with Linguistic Structures
July 21, 2017
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017
Fanyi Xiao (University of California Davis) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) Yong Jae Lee (University of California Davis)
Joint Optimization of Robot Design and Motion Parameters using the Implicit Function Theorem
July 12, 2017
Robotics: Science and Systems 2017
Sehoon Ha (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Carnegie Mellon University) Alex Alspach (Disney Research) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)
Persistent Memory in Repeated Child-Robot Conversations
June 27, 2017
Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2017
Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) Andre Pereira (Disney Research) Jill Lehman (Disney Research)
Collaborative Storytelling between Robot and Child: A Feasibility Study
June 27, 2017
Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2017
Ming Sun (Disney Research) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research/KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research) Boyang Albert Li (Disney Research)
Groups Re-identification with Temporal Context
June 7, 2017
International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2017
Michal Koperski (Inria Sophia Antipolis) Slawomir Bak (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research)
Cross-modal Correspondence between Vibrations and Colors
June 6, 2017
IEEE World Haptics Conference 2017
Alexandra Delazio (Disney Research) Ali Israr (Disney Research) Roberta Klatzky (Carnegie Mellon University)
Towards Robot Autonomy in Group Conversations: Understanding the Effects of Body Orientation and Gaze
March 6, 2017
Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2017
Marynel Vazquez (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Elizabeth J, Carter (Disney Research) Braden McDorman (Disney Research) Jodi Forlizzi (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Aaron Steinfeld (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
Scott E. Hudson (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University)
Creating Prosodic Synchrony for a Robot Co-player in a Speech-controlled game for Children
March 6, 2017
Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2017
Najmeh Sadoughi (Disney Research/University of Texas at Dallas) André Pereira (Disney Research) Rishub Jain (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) Jill Fain Lehmann (Disney Research)
Data-Driven Ghosting using Deep Imitation Learning
March 3, 2017
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2017
Hoang M. Le (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Yisong Yue (California of Technology) Patrick Lucey (STATS LLC)
Multi-party Language Interaction in a Fast-paced Game Using Multi-keyword Spotting
September 20, 2016
International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2016
Jill Lehman (Disney Research) Nikolas Wolfe (Disney Research) Andre Pereira (Disney Research)
A Task-level iterative learning control algorithm for accurate tracking in manipulators with modeling errors and stringent joint position limits
October 12, 2016
Dynamic Systems and Control Conference 2016
Pranav Bhounsule (University of Texas San Antonio) Abhishek Bapat (University of Texas San Antonio) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)
Deep Static and Dynamic Level Analysis: A Study on Infinite Mario
October 8, 2016
Experimental AI in Games Workshop 2016
Matthew Guzdial (Disney Research/Georgia Institute of Technology) Nathan Sturtevant (University of Denver) Boyang Albert Li (Disney Research)
PLOTSHOT: Generating Discourse-constrained Stories around Photos
September 19, 2016
The Twelfth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 2016
Rogelio Cardona-Rivera (Disney Research/North Carolina State University) Boyang Albert Li (Disney Research)
Globally Continuous and Non-Markovian Activity Analysis from Videos
September 15, 2016
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2016
He Wang (Disney Research) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research)
An Acoustic Analysis of Child-Child and Child-Robot Interactions for Understanding Engagement during Speech-Controlled Computer Games
September 8, 2016
Interspeech 2016
Theodora Chaspari (Disney Research/University of Southern California)
Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research)
G-g-go! Juuump! Online Performance of a Multi-keyword Spotter in a Real-time game
September 6, 2016
WOCCI 2016
Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research) Nikolas Wolfe (Disney Research) André Pereira (Disney Research)
The Role of Phonological Processes and Acoustic Confusability in Phone Errors in Children’s ASR
September 6, 2016
WOCCI 2016
Eva Fringi (Disney Research/University of Birmingham) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research) Martin Russell (Disney Research/University of Birmingham)
Turn-taking, Children, and the Unpredictability of Fun
September 1, 2016
AI Magazine 2016
Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research)
Estimation of Children’s Physical Characteristics from their Voices
August 9, 2016
Interspeech 2016
Jill Lehman (Disney Research)
Rita Singh (Disney Research)
Multiplicative Representation for Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction
August 7, 2016
The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2016
Yi Luan (Disney Research/University of Washington) Yangfeng Ji (Georgia Institute of Technology) Hannaneh Hajishirzi (University of Washington) Boyang Li (Disney Research)
Harnessing Object and Scene Semantics for Large-Scale Video Understanding
June 27, 2016
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016
Zuxuan Wu (Fudan University) Yanwei Fu (Disney Research) Yu-Gang Jiang (Fudan University) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research)
Learning Activity Progression in LSTMs for Activity Detection and Early Detection
June 27, 2016
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016
Shugao Ma (Boston University) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) Stan Sclaroff (Boston University)
Learning Activity Progression in LSTMs for Activity Detection and Early Detection
June 24, 2016
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016
Shugao Ma (Boston University)Leonid Sigal (DisneyResearch)Stan Sclaroff (Boston University)
Completed Semi-supervised Vocabulary-informed Learning
June 24, 2016
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016
Yanwei Fu (Disney Research) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research)
Learning Online Smooth Predictors for Realtime Camera Planning using Recurrent Decision Trees
June 24, 2016
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016
Jianhui Chen (University of British Columbia) Hoang M. Le (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) James J. Little (University of British Columbia)
The Robot Who Knew Too Much: Toward Understanding the Privacy/Personalization Trade-off in Child-Robot Conversation
June 21, 2016
Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2016
Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research)
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)
Assessing Tracking Performance in Complex Scenarios using Mean Time Between Failures
March 7, 2016
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2016
Peter Carr (Disney Research) Robert T. Collins (The Pennsylvania State University)
Person Re-identification using Deformable Patch Metric Learning
March 7, 2016
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2016
Slawomir Bak (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research)
Chalkboarding: A New Spatiotemporal Query Paradigm for Sports Play Retrieval
March 7, 2016
Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2016
Long Sha (Queensland University of Technology) Patrick Lucey (Disney Research) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Charlie Rohlf (STATS LLC) Iain Matthews (Disney Research)
Assumed Density Filtering Methods for Scalable Learning of Bayesian Neural Networks
February 12, 2016
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2016
Soumya Ghosh (Disney Research) Francesco Marie Delle Fave (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)
Exploiting View-Specific Appearance Similarities Across Classes for Zero-shot Pose Prediction: A Metric Learning Approach
February 12, 2016
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2016
Alina Kuznetsova (Leibniz University Hannover) Sung Ju Hwang (UNIST) Bodo Rosenhahn (Leibniz University Hannover) Leonid Sigal (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)
Space-Time Tree Ensemble for Action Recognition
June 7, 2015
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015
Shugao Ma (Boston University) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) Stan Sclaroff (Boston University)
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)
The Boundary Forest algorithm for online supervised and unsupervised learning
January 25, 2015
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2015
Charles Mathy (Disney Research) Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Jose Bento Ayres Pereira (Disney Research) Jonathan Rosenthal (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (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)
Extending the Performance of Human Classifiers using a Viewpoint Specific Approach
January 6, 2015
IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2015
Endri Dibra (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Jerome Maye (ETH Zurich) Olga Diamanti (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Rresearch)
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)
Jointly Summarizing Large-Scale Web Images and Videos for the Storyline Reconstruction
June 23, 2014
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2014
Gunhee Kim (Disney Research) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University)
Scalable Methods to Integrate Task Knowledge with the Three-Weight Algorithm for Hybrid Cognitive Processing via Optimization
April 30, 2014
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Journal 2014
Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Jose Bento Ayres Pereira (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)
A Message-Passing Algorithm for Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning
December 5, 2013
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2013
Jose Bento Ayres Pereira (Disney Research) Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Javier Alonso-Mora (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)
Methods for Integrating Knowledge with the Three-Weight Optimization Algorithm for Hybrid Cognitive Processing
November 15, 2013
AAAI Fall Symposium on Integrated Cognition 2013
Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Jose Bento (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)
Poselet Key-framing: A Model for Human Activity Recognition
June 23, 2013
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2013
Michalis Raptis (Disney Research) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research)
An Improved Three-Weight Message-Passing Algorithm
May 8, 2013
Arxiv.org 2013
Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Jose Bento (Disney Research) Veit Elser (Cornell University) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)
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)