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
Eliminating Oversaturation and Artifacts of High Guidance Scales in Diffusion Models
April 23, 2025
ICLR (2025)
Seyedmorteza Sadat (ETH Zurich)
Otmar Hilliges (ETH Zurich)
Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)
No Training, No Problem: Rethinking Diffusion 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)
Volume Scattering Probability Guiding
October 7, 2024
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2024)
Kehan Xu (ETH Zürich)
Sebastian Herholz (Intel Corporation, Germany)
Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Marios Papas (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios / ETH Zürich)
CLIP-Fusion: A Spatio-Temporal Quality Metric for Frame Interpolation
February 27, 2027
WACV (2025)
Göksel Mert Çökmez (ETH Zurich)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Tunç Ozan Aydin (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)
BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation
December 10, 2024
NeurIPS (2024)
Xiang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Bingxin Ke (ETH Zurich)
Hayko Riemenschneider (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Nando Metzger (ETH Zurich)
Anton Obukhov (ETH Zurich)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Konrad Schindler (ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)