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
Self-Supervised Effective Resolution Estimation with Adversarial Augmentations
January 3, 2023
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (2023)
Manuel Kansy (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Julian Balletshofer (DisneyResearch|Studios) Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Graziana Mignone (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Production-Ready Face Re-Aging for Visual Effects
November 30, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2022)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Eftychios Sifakis (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Efficient Neural Style Transfer For Volumetric Simulations
November 30, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2022)
Joshua Aurand (DisneyResearch|Studios) Raphaël Oritz (DisneyResearch|Studios) Sylvia Nauer (DisneyResearch|Studios) Vinicius Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Deep Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction using Analytic Distributions
November 30, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2022)
Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Gerhard Röthlin (DisneyResearch|Studios) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios) Marios Papas (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Contrastive Learning for Controllable Blind Video Restoration
November 21, 2022
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) (2022)
Givi Meishvili (DisneyResearch|Studios) Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Sally Hattori (The Walt Disney Company) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
TempFormer: Temporally Consistent Transformer for Video Denoising
October 11, 2022
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (2022)
Mingyang Song (ETH Zürich) Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios) Tunç O. Aydın (DisneyResearch|Studios)