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
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)
Revitalizing Legacy Video Content: Deinterlacing with Bidirectional Information Propagation
November 24, 2024
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) (2024)
Zhaowei Gao (DisneyResearch|Studios / ETH Zürich)
Mingyang Song (DisneyResearch|Studios / ETH Zürich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
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)