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
Controllable Tracking-Based Video Frame Interpolation
July 17, 2025
SIGGRAPH (2025)
Karlis Martins Briedis (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Raphaël Ortiz (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Reenact Anything: Semantic Video Motion Transfer Using Motion-Textual Inversion
July 16, 2025
SIGGRAPH (2025)
Manuel Kansy (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)
High-Fidelity Novel View Synthesis via Splatting-Guided Diffusion
July 16, 2025
SIGGRAPH (2025)
Xiang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Lukas Mehl (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
ScaffoldAvatar: High-Fidelity Gaussian Avatars with Patch Expressions
July 10, 2025
SIGGRAPH (2025)
Shivangi Aneja (Technical University of Munich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Irene Baeza (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Matthias Niessner (Technical University of Munich)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping
June 10, 2025
CVPR 2025
Pascal Chang (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD)
Sergio Sancho (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD)
Jingwei Tang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Vinicius Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Bridging the Gap between Diffusion Models and Universal Quantization for Image Compression
June 10, 2025
CVPR (2025)
Lucas Relic (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Roberto Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)