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
Fast Nonlinear Least Squares Optimization of Large-Scale Semi-Sparse Problems
May 25, 2020
Eurographics 2020
Marco Fratarcangeli (Chalmers University of Technology/DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Aurel Gruber (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Facial Expression Synthesis using a Global-Local Multilinear Framework
May 25, 2020
Eurographics 2020
Mengjiao Wang (DisneyResearch|Studios Intern) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College London) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Deep Generative Video Compression
November 4, 2019
NeurIPS 2019
Jun Han (Dartmouth College) Salvator Lombardo (Disney Research LA) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Stephan Mandt (University of California, Irvine)
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)