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
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)
Skel-inbetweening for Intuitive Neural Motion Authoring
November 11, 2024
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2024)
Dhruv Agrawal (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD)
Jakcob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Dominik Borer (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)
RobotKeyframing: Learning Locomotion with High-Level Objectives via Mixture of Dense and Sparse Rewards
November 4, 2024
Conference on Robot Learning (2024)
Fatemeh Zargarbashi (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD)
Jin Cheng (ETH Zurich)
Dongho Kang (ETH Zurich)
Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Stelian Coros (ETH Zurich)
Efficient Video Encoder Autotuning via Offline Bayesian Optimization and Supervised Learning
October 1, 2024
International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (2024)
Roberto Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yuanyi Xue (Disney Entertainment/ESPN Tech.)
Xuewei Meng (Disney Entertainment/ESPN Tech.)
Wenhao Zhang (Disney Entertainment/ESPN Tech.)
Scott Labrozzi (Disney Entertainment/ESPN Tech.)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Lossy Image Compression with Foundation Diffusion Models
September 28, 2024
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (2024)
Lucas Relic (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Roberto Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Learning a Generalized Physical Face Model From Data
July 28, 2024
SIGGRAPH (2024)
Lingchen Yang (ETH Zurich)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios / ETH Zürich)
Barbara Solenthaler (ETH Zurich)
Eftychios Sifakis (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)