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
HIGS: History-Guided Sampling for Diffusion Models
April 22, 2026
ICLR (2026)
Seyedmorteza Sadat (ETH Zurich)
Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)
FastGHA: Generalized Few-Shot 3D Gaussian Head Avatars with Real-Time Animation
April 22, 2026
ICLR (2026)
Xinya Ji (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Manuel Kansy (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jacek Naruniec (ETH Zurich, DisneyResearch|Studios)
Xun Cao (Nanjing University)
Barbara Solenthaler (ETH Zurich)
Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)
HiWave: Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation via Wavelet-Based Diffusion Sampling
December 15, 2025
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2025)
Tobias Vontobel (ETH Zürich)
Seyedmorteza Sadat (ETH Zürich / DisneyResearch|Studios)
Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Shaping Strands with Neural Style Transfer
December 14, 2025
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2025)
Beyzanur Coban (ETH Zurich)
Pascal Chang (ETH Zurich / DisneyResearch|Studios)
Guilherme G. Haetinger (ETH Zurich / DisneyResearch|Studios)
Jingwei Tang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Vinicius Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Spatiotemporal Diffusion Priors for Extreme Video Compression
December 7, 2025
Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) (2025)
Lucas Relic (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
André Emmenegger (ETH Zurich/DisneyResearch|Studios)
Roberto Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)
Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
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)