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
SmoothMotionVectors: Optimizing Your Content for Video Codecs in Free View Video Compression
July 16, 2026
SIGGRAPH (2026)
Mingyang Song (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Siyu Tang (ETH Zurich)
Tunç Ozan Aydin (DisneyResearch|Studios)
2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization
July 16, 2026
SIGGRAPH (2026)
Tianhao Chen (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Clara Fernandez (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Marteinn Oskarsson (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Chuck Tappan (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Ragged Neighborhood Attention for Spatiotemporal Neural Denoising of Deep Monte Carlo Renderings
July 16, 2026
SIGGRAPH (2026)
Xianyao Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Gerhard Röthlin (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Tunç Ozan Aydin (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studio
Marios Papas (DisneyResearch|Studios)
A Generative Motion Rig for Artist-Driven Motion Authoring
July 16, 2026
SIGGRAPH (2026)
Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Dhruv Agrawal (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Dominik Borer (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Luca Vögeli (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting
July 1, 2026
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) (2026)
Sergio Sancho (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Alexander Rath (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Pascal Chang (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Amit H. Bermano (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios/Tel Aviv University)
Derek Nowrouzezahrai (McGill University/Mila – Quebec AI Institute/CIFAR AI Chair)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Marios Papas (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Illumination-Aware Spatial Subdivision for Path Guiding
July 1, 2026
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) (2026)
Fengshi Zheng (Delft University of Technology)
Christoph Peters (Delft University of Technology)
Sebastian Herholz (Blender Institute)
Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Elmar Eisemann (Delft University of Technology)