Publications

Generating Animations from Screenplays

June 1, 2019
*SEM 2019

Yeyao Zhang (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Eleftheria Tsipidi (Disney Research) Sasha Schriber (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Disney Research/Rutgers University) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Ashutosh Modi (Disney Research)

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)

Animating an Autonomous 3D Talking Avatar

February 15, 2019
arxiv 2019

Dominik Borer (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Dominic Lutz (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Martin Guay (Disney Research)

Expressing Coherent Personality with Incremental Acquisition of Multimodal Behaviors

August 27, 2018
International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2018

Pedro Mota (Disney Research/Technical University of Lisbon) Maike Paetzel (Disney Research/Uppsala) Andrea Fox (Disney Research) Aida Amini (Disney Research/University of Washington) Sid Srinivasan (Disney Research/Georgia Tech) James Kennedy (Disney Research) Jill Lehman (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)

Towards Emergent Play in Mixed Reality

November 27, 2017
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual and Augmented Worlds (AIVRAR) 2017

Patrick Misteli (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

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)

Computational Narrative

July 30, 2017
ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses

Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

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) 

A Deep Learning Approach for Generalized Speech Animation

July 20, 2017
ACM SIGGRAPH 2017

Sarah Taylor (University of East Anglia) Taehwan Kim (California Institute of Technology) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology)Moshe Mahler (Disney Research) Jimmy Krahe (Disney Research) Anastasio Garcia Rodrigues (Disney Research) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research) Iain Matthews (Disney Research)

Evaluating Accessible Graphical Interfaces for Building Story Worlds

November 15, 2016
International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2016

Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Guido Maria Maiga (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

CANVAS: Computer-Assisted Narrative Animation Synthesis

July 11, 2016
ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2016

Mubbasir Kapadia (Disney Research/Rutgers University) Seth Frey (Disney Research/Dartmouth College) Alexander Shoulson (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Towards an Accessible Interface for Story World Building

November 14, 2015
8th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies 2015

Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Andrea Schuepfer (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Augmented Creativity- Bridging the Real and Virtual Worlds to Enhance Creative Play

November 2, 2015
Symposium On Mobile Graphics And Interactive Applications 2015

Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Mattia Ryffel (Disney Research) Stephane Magnenat (Disney Research) Alessia Marra (Disney Research) Maurizio Nitti (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Gioacchino Noris (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Computer-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Narratives

February 27, 2015
ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) 2015

Mubbasir Kapadia (Disney Research/Rutgers University) Jessica Falk (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Marcel Marti (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

Style and Abstraction in Portrait Sketching

July 21, 2013
ACM SIGGRAPH 2013

Itamar Berger (Disney Research/The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) Ariel Shamir (Disney Research/The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) Moshe Mahler (Disney Research) Elizabeth Carter (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University)