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
Latest Publications
What Is It Like to Be a Noise? An Entropy-based Gaussian Noise Regularization for Diffusion Models
May 31, 2026
CVPR (2026)
Pascal Chang (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Kai Lascheit (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jingwei Tang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Vinicius Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
RenderFlow: Single-Step Neural Rendering via Flow Matching
May 31, 2026
CVPR (2026)
Shenghao Zhang (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Runtao Liu (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Efficient All-Pairs Correlation Volume Sampling for Optical Flow Estimation
May 31, 2026
CVPR (2026)
Karlis Martins Briedis (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Guardians of the Hair: Rescuing Soft Boundaries in Depth, Stereo, and Novel Views
May 31, 2026
CVPR (2026)
Xiang Zhang (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Lukas Mehl (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
RelightAnyone: A Generalized Relightable 3D Gaussian Head Model
May 31, 2026
CVPR (2026)
Yingyan Xu (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Pramod Rao (Max Plank Institute for Informatics, SIC)
Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Christian Theobalt (Max Plank Institute for Informatics, SIC)
Marc Habermann (Max Plank Institute for Informatics, SIC)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
HIGS: History-Guided Sampling for Diffusion Models
April 22, 2026
ICLR (2026)
Seyedmorteza Sadat (ETH Zurich)
Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

