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
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)
Deep HDR estimation with generative detail reconstruction
May 3, 2021
Eurographics 2021
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios) Tunc Aydin (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Semantic Deep Face Models
November 25, 2020
3D International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) (2020)
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD), Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios), Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich), Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)