Visual Computing

We strive to improve Disney’s production pipelines and creative processes, expanding the designer’s toolbox in terms of rendering, animation, capture, stylization, interaction, and efficiency. Our technology allows designers to tell their story. We also develop algorithms to better understand our audiences and create new modes of interaction.

Latest Publications

Multimodal Conditional 3D Face Geometry Generation

October 26, 2025
Shape Modeling International (SMI) (2025)


Christopher Otto (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Images

October 18, 2025
Workshop on Human-Interactive Generation and Editing (2025)


Xinya Ji (ETH Zurich, Nanjing University)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Lingchen Yang (ETH Zurich)
Xun Cao (Nanjing University)
Barbara Solenthaler (ETH Zurich)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

LDIP: Long Distance Information Propagation for Video Super-Resolution

October 16, 2025
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2025)


Michael Bernasconi (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers  (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Monocular Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild

October 16, 2025
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2025)


Yingyan Xu(ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Kate Gadola (ETH Zurich)
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

ReBaIR: Reference-Based Image Restoration

September 29, 2025
AIM: Advances in Image Manipulation Workshop and Challenges (2025)


Michael Bernasconi (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers  (DisneyResearch|Studios)