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
Spectrogram Feature Losses for Music Source Separation
September 2, 2019
Eusipco 2019
Abhimanyu Sahai (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Romann Weber (Disney Research) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research)
Tangent Space Optimization of Controls for Character Animation
July 12, 2019
ACM Siggraph 2019
Loïc Ciccone (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Öztireli (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ ETH Zurich)
Accurate Markerless Jaw Tracking for Facial Performance Capture
July 12, 2019
ACM Siggraph 2019
Gaspard Zoss (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (Disney Research)
Neural Importance Sampling
July 12, 2019
ACM Siggraph 2019
Thomas Müller (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Jan Novak (Disney Research)
Neural Sequential Phrase Grounding (SeqGROUND)
June 16, 2019
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019
Pelin Dogan (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Leonid Sigal (University of British Columbia/Vector Institute) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)
Explaining Deep Neural Networks with a Polynomial Time Algorithm for Shapley Value Approximation
June 10, 2019
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019
Marco Ancona (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Oztireli (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)