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
Neural Frame Interpolation for Rendered Content
November 30, 2021
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Karlis Martins Briedis (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Mark Meyer (Pixar Animation Studios)Ian McGonigal (Industrial Light & Magic) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Rendering with Style: Combining Traditional and Neural Approaches for High-Quality Face Rendering
November 30, 2021
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Sebastian Winberg (DisneyResearch|Studios) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Jérémy Riviere (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Deep Compositional Denoising for High-quality Monte Carlo Rendering
June 29, 2021
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2021
Xianyao Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Thijs Vogels (EPFL) Henrik Dahlberg (Industrial Light & Magic) Markus Gross ((DisneyResearch|Studios)/ETH Zurich) Marios Papas (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Adaptive Convolutions for Structure-Aware Style Transfer
June 19, 2021
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Lossy Image Compression with Normalizing Flows
May 8, 2021
Neural Compression Workshop @ ICLR (2021)
Leonhard Helminger (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Robust Image Denoising using Kernel Predicting Networks
May 3, 2021
Eurographics 2021
Zhilin Cai (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios) Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Cengiz Oztireli (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Tunc Aydin (DisneyResearch|Studios)