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
Automatic Feature Selection for Denoising Volumetric Renderings
April 7, 2022
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) (2022)
Xianyao Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint Ph.D.) Melvin Ott (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Marios Papas (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Facial Animation with Disentangled Identity and Motion using Transformers
September 13, 2022
ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2022
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Training a Deep Remastering Model
July 24, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Sally Hattori (The Walt Disney Company) Andrew J. Wahlquist (The Walt Disney Company) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Local Anatomically-Constrained Facial Performance Retargeting
July 24, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Loïc Ciccone (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
MoRF: Morphable Radiance Fields for Multiview Neural Head Modeling
July 24, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
Daoye Wang (ETH Zürich) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Facial Hair Tracking for High Fidelity Performance Capture
July 24, 2022
ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
Sebastian Winberg (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)