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
Kernel-Based Frame Interpolation for Spatio-Temporally Adaptive Rendering
July 23, 2023, ACM Siggraph 2023
Karlis Martins Briedis (DisneyResearch|Studios / ETH Zürich), Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios), Raphaël Ortiz (DisneyResearch|Studios), Mark Meyer (Pixar Animation Studios)
Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios / ETH Zürich), Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Deep Compositional Denoising on Frame Sequences
June 26, 2023,
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
Xianyao Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios / ETH Zürich), Gerhard Röthlin (DisneyResearch|Studios), Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios), Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios / ETH Zürich), Marios Papas DisneyResearch|Studios)
Continuous Landmark Detection with 3D Queries
June 4, 2023
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios),Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios),
Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios),Derek Bradley(DisneyResearch|Studios)
Video Compression with Entropy-Constrained Neural Representations
June 4, 2023
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
Carlos Gomes (ETH Zürich), Roberto Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios), Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Frame Interpolation Transformer and Uncertainty Guidance
June 4, 2023
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
Markus Plack (Unitersity of Bonn), Matthias B. Hullin (University of Bonn), Karlis Martins Briedis (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zürich), Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios /ETH Zurich), Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios), Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)
Physics-Informed Neural Corrector for Deformation-based Fluid Control
May 8, 2023
Eurographics 2023
Jingwei Tang (DisneyResearch|Studios), Byungsoo Kim (ETH Zurich/ETH Joint PhD), Vinicius Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios), Barbara Solenthaler (ETH Zurich)