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

Artificial Intelligence

Perception and action to reasoning, problem solving, and creativity.

Machine Learning

Probabilistic modeling & deep learning.

Visual Computing

Computer Graphics and Computer Vision.

Latest Publications

Differentiable Surface Splatting for Point-based Geometry Processing

November 1, 2019
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

Yifan Wang (ETH Zurich) Serena Felice (ETH Zurich) Wu Shihao (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Oztireli (DisneyResearch|Studios) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)

Blind image super resolution with spatially variant degradations

November 1, 2019
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

Victor Cornillère (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Yifan Wang (ETH Zurich) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Parameterized Animated Activities

October 28, 2019
ACM MIG 2019

Alba M. Rios Rodriguez (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Steven Poulakos (DisneyResearch|Studios) Maurizio Nitti (DisneyResearch|Studios) Mattia Ryffel (DisneyResearch|Studios) Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)

Neural Inter-Frame Compression for Video Coding

October 27, 2019
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019

Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Joaquim Campos (DisneyResearch|Studios Intern) Simone Schaub-Meyer (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)