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
CANRIG: Cross-Attention Neural Face Rigging with Variable Local Control
April 4, 2026
Eurographics (2026)
Arad Mohammadi (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Loic Ciccone (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Robert Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)
VQ-Style: Disentangling Style and Content in Motion with Residual Quantized Representations
April 4, 2026
Eurographics (2026)
Fatemeh Zargarbashi (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Dhruv Agrawal (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Stelian Coroa (ETH Zurich)
Robert Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios)
HiWave: Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation via Wavelet-Based Diffusion Sampling
December 15, 2025
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2025)
Tobias Vontobel (ETH Zürich)
Seyedmorteza Sadat (ETH Zürich / DisneyResearch|Studios)
Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Shaping Strands with Neural Style Transfer
December 14, 2025
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2025)
Beyzanur Coban (ETH Zurich)
Pascal Chang (ETH Zurich / DisneyResearch|Studios)
Guilherme G. Haetinger (ETH Zurich / DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jingwei Tang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Vinicius Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Spatiotemporal Diffusion Priors for Extreme Video Compression
December 7, 2025
Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) (2025)
Lucas Relic (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
André Emmenegger (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Roberto Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Implicit Bézier Motion Model for Precise Spatial and Temporal Control
December 3, 2025
Motion in Games (2025)
Luca Vögeli (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Dhruv Agrawal (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Dominik Borer (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Robert Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)