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Talk The Versatile Rigging of Splat in Strange World SIGGRAPH 2023

Cameron Black, Christoffer Pedersen

Talk Swoop: Animating Characters Along a Path SIGGRAPH 2023

Andy Lin, Hannah Swan, Justin Walker, Cathy Lam, Ricky Arietta

Talk Splat: Developing a "Strange" Shader SIGGRAPH 2023

Kendall Litaker, Brent Burley, Dan Lipson, Mason Khoo

Talk Honing USD: Lessons Learned and Workflow Enhancements at Walt Disney Animation Studios SIGGRAPH 2023

Emily Vo, George "Ricky" Rieckenberg, Ernest Petti

Talk Diving Deeper into Volume Style Transfer SIGGRAPH 2023

Mike Navarro

Talk Creating the Art-Directed Groom for Legend in Disney’s Strange World SIGGRAPH 2023

Courtney Chun, Jose Velasquez, Haixiang Liu

Talk Creating Curve-Based Garments with Custom Weave Patterns SIGGRAPH 2023

Dan Lipson, Jose Velasquez

Talk Creating Creature Chaos: The Methods that Brought Crowds to the Forefront on Disney’s Strange World SIGGRAPH 2023

Nathan Devlin, Yasser Hamed, Alberto Luceño Ros, Jeff Sullivan, D’Lun Wong

Talk Visualizing the Production Process of Encanto  with the Command Center SIGGRAPH 2022

Justin Tennant, Mitch Counsell, Far Jangtrakool, Salina Ortega, Rajesh Sharma, Tad Miller, Scott Kersavage

Talk Practical Multiple-Scattering Sheen Using Linearly Transformed Cosines SIGGRAPH 2022

Tizian Zeltner, Brent Burley, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang

Talk Modeling Animated Jumbo Floral Display on Disney’s Encanto SIGGRAPH 2022

Andrew Finley, Jesse Erickson, Peter De Mund, Ying Liu

Talk Making Encanto with USD SIGGRAPH 2022

Tad Miller, Harmony M Li, Neelima Karanam, Nadim Sinno, Todd Scopio

Talk Gravity Preloading for Maintaining Hair Shape Using the Simulator as a Closed-Box Function SIGGRAPH 2022

Haixiang Liu

Talk Fracture-Aware Tessellation of Subdivision Surfaces SIGGRAPH 2022

Brent Burley, Francisco Rodriguez

Talk Encanto  - Let’s Talk About Bruno’s Visions SIGGRAPH 2022

Corey Butler, Brent Burley, Wei-Feng Wayne Huang, Karl Li, Benjamin Huang

Talk Embroidery and Cloth Fiber Workflows on Disney’s Encanto SIGGRAPH 2022

Jose Velasquez, Alexander Alvarado, Ying Liu, Maryann Simmons

Talk Wrapped Clothing on Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon SIGGRAPH 2021

Avneet Kaur, Johann Francois Coetzee

Talk Weaving The Druun’s Webbing SIGGRAPH 2021

Talk Unbiased Emission and Scattering Importance Sampling For Heterogeneous Volumes SIGGRAPH 2021

Wei-Feng Wayne Huang, Peter Kutz*, Yining Karl Li, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang

Talk The Atmosphere of Raya and the Last Dragon SIGGRAPH 2021

Marc Bryant, Ryan DeYoung, Wei-Feng Wayne Huang, Joe Longson, Noel Villegas

Talk Stylizing Volumes with Neural Networks SIGGRAPH 2021

Mike Navarro, Jacob Rice

Talk Populating the World of Kumandra: Animation at Scale for Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon SIGGRAPH 2021

Alberto Luceño Ros, Kristin Chow, Jack Geckler, Norman Moses Joseph, Nicolas Ngheim

Talk Mathematical Tricks for Scalable and Appealing Crowds in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon SIGGRAPH 2021

Nicolas Nghiem

Talk Creating Diversity and Variety in the People of Kumandra for Disney’s Raya and The Last Dragon SIGGRAPH 2021

Avneet Kaur, Erik Eulen, Johann Francois Coetzee

Talk Cooking Southeast Asia-Inspired Soup in Animated Film SIGGRAPH 2021

Cong Wang, Dale Mayeda, Jacob Rice, Thom Wickes, Benjamin Huang

Paper Discretization-Error-Accurate Mixed-Precision Multigrid Solvers SIAM J. SCI. COMPUT.

Rasmus Tamstorf, Joseph Benzaken, Stephen F. McCormick

Paper Algebraic Error Analysis for Mixed-Precision Multigrid Solvers SIAM J. SCI. COMPUT.

Stephen F. McCormick, Joseph Benzaken, Rasmus Tamstorf

Talk The Look and Lighting of "Show Yourself" from Frozen 2 SIGGRAPH 2020

Amol Sathe, Lance Summers, Matt Chiang, James Newland

Talk The Collaboration between Art & Technology: Making Disney Animation's Myth: a Frozen Tale SIGGRAPH 2020

Jose Luis Gomez Diaz, Jeff Gipson, Michael R.W. Anderson, Edward Robbins, Brittney Lee, Nick Russell

Talk Myth: a Frozen Tale  Stylized Effects for Real-Time VR SIGGRAPH 2020

Ian Coony, Dan Lund, Michael R.W. Andersen

Talk Making Beautiful Embroidery for Frozen 2 SIGGRAPH 2020

Ying Liu, Jared Wright, Alexander Alvarado

Talk How Short Circuit Experiments: Experimental Filmmaking at Walt Disney Animation Studios SIGGRAPH 2020

Jennifer Newfield, Josh Staub

Talk Frozen 2 : Effects Vegetation Pipeline SIGGRAPH 2020

Norman Joseph, Benjamin Fiske, Vijoy Gaddipati, Marie Tollec, Tad Miller

Talk Frozen 2 : Creating the Water Horse SIGGRAPH 2020

David Hutchins, Cameron Black, Marc Bryant, Richard Lehmann, Svetla Radivoeva

Talk Deconstructing Destruction: Making & Breaking Frozen 2 's Dam SIGGRAPH 2020

Marie Tollec, Charles Cunningham-Scott, Sean Jenkins, Lance Summers

Talk Creating the Wind Spirit SIGGRAPH 2020

Cameron Black, Benjamin Fiske, Trent Correy

Paper The Challenges of Releasing the Moana Island Scene EGSR 2019

Rasmus Tamstorf, Heather Pritchett

Talk Taming the Shadow Terminator SIGGRAPH 2019

Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Yining Karl Li, Brent Burley

Paper Subdivision-Based Nonlinear Multiscale Cloth Simulation SIAM J. SCI. COMPUT. 2019

Alena Kopaničáková, Rolf Krause, Rasmus Tamstorf

Talk Optimizing Rig Manipulation with GPU and Parallel Evaluation SIGGRAPH 2019

Andy Lin, John Kahwaty, Walter Yoder, Gene S. Lee, David Suroviec

Talk Optimizing Large Scale Crowds in Ralph Breaks the Internet SIGGRAPH 2019

Josh Richards, Le Joyce Tong, Moe El-Ali,Tuan Nguyen

Talk Machine-Learning Denoising in Feature Film Production SIGGRAPH 2019

Henrik D. Dahlberg (Industrial Light & Magic), David M. Adler (Walt Disney Animation Studios), Jeremy Newlin (Pixar Animation Studios)

Talk Creating Ralphzilla: Moshpit, Skeleton Library, and Automation Framework SIGGRAPH 2019

Dong Joo Byun, Alberto Luceno Ros, Alexander Moaveni, Marc Bryant, Joyce Le Tong, Moe El-Ali

Talk 2D Animation in VR Clouds: The Making of Disney’s a kite’s tale SIGGRAPH 2019

Bruce Wright, Michael Anderson, Angela McBride, Henrik Falt, Daniel Peixe, Tony DeRosa

Paper A Material Point Method for Thin Shells with Frictional Contact SIGGRAPH 2018

Qi Guo, Xuchen Han, Chuyuan Fu, Theodore Gast, Rasmus Tamstorf, Joseph Teran

Paper The Design and Evolution of Disney’s Hyperion Renderer ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2018

Brent Burley, David Adler, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Hank Driskill, Ralf Habel, Patrick Kelly, Peter Kutz, Yining Karl Li, Daniel Teece

Paper Denoising with Kernel Prediction and Asymmetric Loss Functions SIGGRAPH 2018

Thijs Vogels, Fabrice Rousselle, Brian McWilliams, Gerhard Rothlin, Alex Harvill, David Adler, Mark Meyer, Jan Novak

Talk SimpleBullet: Collaborating on a Modular Destruction Toolkit SIGGRAPH 2018

Marie Tollec

Talk Hierarchical Workflow for Art-Directed Hair Animation SIGGRAPH 2018

Avneet Kaur, Maryann Simmons

Paper Denoising Deep Monte Carlo Renderings EG Computer Graphics Forum 2018

Delio Vicini, David Adler, Jan Novak, Fabrice Rousselle, Brent Burley

Talk The Role of Hand-Drawn Animation in Disney's Moana SIGGRAPH 2017

Kimberly Keech, Brett Achorn, Brian Whitted and Rachel Bibb

Talk The Ocean and Water Pipeline of Disney's Moana : The Line Where the Sky Meets the Sea SIGGRAPH 2017

Ralf Habel, Patrick Kelly, Peter Kutz, Sara Drakeley, Jonathan Garcia, Sean Palmer

Talk The Art and Technology of Simulating Hair in Disney's Moana SIGGRAPH 2017

Marc Thyng, Christopher Evart, Toby Jones, Alex McAdams

Talk Moana : Performing Water SIGGRAPH 2017

Ben Frost, Alexey Stomakhin, Hiroaki Narita

Talk Moana : Geometry Based Disco Ball Lighting for Tamatoa’s Lair SIGGRAPH 2017

DJ Byun, Shant Ergenian, Gregory Culp

Talk Moana : Foundation of a Lava Monster SIGGRAPH 2017

Marc Bryant, Ian Coony, Jonathan Garcia

Talk Moana : Crashing Waves SIGGRAPH 2017

Alexey Stomakhin, DJ Byun

Talk Handling Scene Constraints for Pose-Based Caching SIGGRAPH 2017

Gene Lee, Christian Eisenacher, Andy Lin & Noel Villegas

Talk Building Moana ’s Kakamora Barge: You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat SIGGRAPH 2017

Brett Achorn, Sean Palmer, Larry Wu

Paper Fluxed Animated Boundary Method SIGGRAPH 2017

Alexey Stomakhin, Andrew Selle

Paper Spectral and Decomposition Tracking for Rendering Heterogeneous Volumes SIGGRAPH 2017

Peter Kutz, Ralf Habel, Yining Karl Li, Jan Novák

Paper All’s Well That Ends Well: Guaranteed Resolution of Simultaneous Rigid Body Impact SIGGRAPH 2017

Etienne Vouga, Breannan Smith, Danny M. Kaufman, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun

Paper Modeling and Data-Driven Parameter Estimation for Woven Fabrics Symposium on Computer Animation

David Clyde, Joseph Teran, Rasmus Tamstorf

Paper Efficient Elasticity for Character Flesh Simulation on Octrees Tech Report 2017

Andy Milne, Mark A. McLaughlin, Haixiang Liu, Alexey Stomakhin, Rasmus Tamstorf

Talk Practical and Controllable Subsurface Scattering for Production Path Tracing SIGGRAPH 2016

Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Peter Kutz, Brent Burley

Talk Zootopia Crowd Pipeline SIGGRAPH 2016

Alberto Luceno Ros, Le Tong, Josh Richards, Tuan Nguyen, Moe El-Ali, Norman Joseph

Paper Subdivision Next-Event Estimation for Path-Traced Subsurface Scattering EGSR 2016

David Koerner, Jan Novák, Peter Kutz, Ralf Habel, and Wojciech Jarosz

Talk From Armadillo to Zebra: Creating the Diverse Characters and the World of Zootopia SIGGRAPH 2016

Ernest Petti, Sean Palmer, Nick Burkard, Hans Keim, Brian Leach, Michelle Robinson

Talk Flesh, Flab, and Fascia Simulation on Zootopia SIGGRAPH 2016

Andy Milne, Mark McLaughlin, Rasmus Tamstorf, Alexey Stomakhin, Nicolas Burkhard, Mitch Counsell, Jesus Canal, David Komorowski, Evan Goldberg

Talk Delicious Looking Ice Cream Effects with Non-Simulation Approaches SIGGRAPH 2016

Dong Joo Byun, James Mansfield, Cesar Veazquez

Talk Coda: The Cultural Effects of Queueing at Disney Animation SIGGRAPH 2016

Marc Jordan, Kevin Constantine

Talk Artist-Friendly Level-of-Detail in a Fur-Filled World SIGGRAPH 2016

Kendall Litaker, Sean Palmer

Talk Art-Directable Procedural Vegetation in Disney's Zootopia SIGGRAPH 2016

Hans Keim, Maryann Simmons, Daniel Teece, Jared Reisweber, Sara Drekely

David Koerner, Jan Novak, Peter Kutz, Ralf Habel, Wojciech Jarosz

Paper A Practical and Controllable Hair and Fur Model for Production Path Tracing Eurographics 2016

Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Benedikt Bitterli, Chuck Tappan, Brent Burley

Paper Smoothed Aggregation Multigrid for Cloth Simulation ACM Transactions on Graphics, 34,6, 2015; SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

Rasmus Tamstorf, Toby Jones, Stephen F. McCormick

Paper Sackcloth or Silk? The Impact of Appearance vs Dynamics on the Perception of Animated Cloth Symposium on Applied Perception 2015

Carlos Aliaga, Carol O'Sullivan, Diego Gutierrez, Rasmus Tamstorf

Paper The Affine Particle-In-Cell Method ACM SIGGRAPH 2015

Chenfanfu Jiang, Craig Schroeder, Andrew Selle, Joseph Teran, Alexey Stomakhin

Talk Interactive Script Based Dynamics in Big Hero 6 SIGGRAPH 2015

Dong Joo Byun, Zubin Wadia, Michael Kaschalk

Talk Crowd Character Complexity on Big Hero 6 SIGGRAPH 2015

Yasser Hamed, John Kahwaty, Andy Lin, Evan Goldberg, Lawrence Chai

Talk Big Hero 6 : Into the Portal SIGGRAPH 2015

David Hutchins, Olun Riley, Jesse Erickson, Alexey Stomakhin, Ralf Habel, Michael Kaschalk

Talk A Practical and Controllable Hair and Fur Model for Production Path Tracing SIGGRAPH 2015

Talk Achieving Real-Time Playback with Production Rigs SIGGRAPH 2015

Andy Lin, Gene S. Lee, Joe Longson, Jay Steele, Evan Goldberg, Rastko Stefanovic

Paper Scalable Asynchronous Contact Mechanics Using Charm++ IEEE IPDPS 2015

Xiang Ni, Laxmikant Kale, Rasmus Tamstorf

Paper Adaptive Nonlinearity for Collisions in Complex Rod Assemblies ACM SIGGRAPH 2014, 33(4), pp. 123:1-123:12

Danny Kaufman, Rasmus Tamstorf, Breannan Smith, Jean-Marie Aubry, Eitan Grinspun

Paper Augmented MPM for Phase-Change and Varied Materials ACM SIGGRAPH 2014, 33(4), pp. 138:1-138:11

Alexey Stomakhin, Craig Schroeder, C. Jiang, Lawrence Chai, Joseph Teran, Andrew Selle

Talk Simulating Wind Effects on Cloth and Hair in Disney's Frozen Siggraph 2014

Keith Wilson, Aleka McAdams, Hubert Leo, and Maryann Simmons

Talk Modeling Tools at Disney Animation Symposium on Digital Production Digi Pro 2014

Dmitriy Pinskiy, Jose L. Gomez Diaz

Paper Ink-and-Ray: Bas-Relief Meshes for Adding Global Illumination Effects to Hand-Drawn Characters ACM Transactions on Graphics, 33,2, 2014 (SIGGRAPH 2014)

Daniel Sykora, Ladislav Kavan, Martin Cadik, Ondrej Jamriska, Alec Jacobson, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Talk Disney's Hair Pipeline: Crafting Hair Styles From Design to Motion Eurographics Industrial Presentation 2014

Maryann Simmons, Brian Whited

Paper A Material Point Method For Snow Simulation Siggraph 2013

Alexey Stomakhin, Craig Schroeder, Lawrence Chai, Joseph Teran, Andrew Selle

Paper Modeling and Estimation of Internal Friction in Cloth Siggraph 2013

Eder Miguel, Rasmus Tamstorf, Derek Bradley, Sara C. Schvartzman, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Bernd Bickel, Wojciech Matusik, Steve Marschner, Miguel A. Otaduy

Talk Pixels to Parks: New Animation Techniques for Fantasyland SIGGRAPH 2013

Gene Lee, Aaron Adams, Evan Goldberg, Justin Walker

Paper Enhanced Dual Quaternion Skinning for Production Use SIGGRAPH 2013

Gene Lee, Andy Lin, Matt Schiller, Scott Peters, Mark McLaughlin, Frank Hanner

Paper Discrete Bending Forces and Their Jacobians GMOD 2013

Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun

Talk A Deformer-Based Approach to Facial Rigging SIGGRAPH 2013

John Kahwaty, Gene Lee, Greg Smith, Andy Lin, Matthew Schiller

Paper Stereo Compositing Accelerated by Quadtree Structures in Piecewise Linear and Curvilinear Spaces Symposium on Digital Production Digi Pro 2013

Dmitriy Pinskiy, Joseph Longson, Peter Kristof, Evan Goldberg, Robert Neuman

Paper Sorted Deferred Shading for Production Path Tracing EGSR 2013

Christian Eisenacher, Gregory Nichols, Andrew Selle, Brent Burley

Paper Speculative Parallel Asynchronous Contact Mechanics Siggraph Asia 2012

Samantha Ainsley, Etienne Vouga, Eitan Grinspun, Rasmus Tamstorf

Paper Smart Scribbles for Sketch Segmentation Computer Graphics Forum. 31:8, 2012

Gioacchino Noris, Daniel Sykora, Brian Whited, Alexander Hornung, Maryann Simmons, Stelian Coros, Ariel Shamir, Robert Sumner, Markus Gross

Paper Reflections on Simultaneous Impact Siggraph 2012

Breannan Smith, Danny M. Kaufman, Etienne Vouga, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun

Talk Physically-Based Shading at Disney SIGGRAPH 2012

Brent Burley

Talk dRig: An Artist-Friendly, Object-Oriented Approach to Rig Building Siggraph 2012

Greg Smith, Mark McLaughlin, Andy Lin, Evan Goldberg, Frank Hanner

Talk Computer-Assisted Animation of Line and Paint in Disney's Paperman SIGGRAPH 2012

Brian Whited, Eric Daniels, Michael Kaschalk, Patrick Osborne, Kyle Odermatt

Paper Topology-Driven Vectorization of Clean Line Drawings ACM Transactions on Graphics 2012

Gioacchino Noris, Alexander Hornung, Robert W. Sumner, Maryann Simmons, Markus Gross

Paper Asynchronous Contact Mechanics Communications of the ACM Paper 2012

David Harmon, Etienne Vouga, Breannan Smith, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun

Paper TexToons: Practical Texture Mapping for Hand-Drawn Cartoon Animations Symposium on Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering 2011

Daniel Sykora, Mirela Ben-Chen, Martin Cadk, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons

Paper Temporal Noise Control for Sketchy Animation Symposium on Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR'11), 2011

Gioacchino Noris, Daniel Sykora, Stelian Coros, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Alexander Hornung, Markus Gross, Robert Sumner

Paper Perceptually-Based Compensation of Light Pollution in Display Systems APGV 2011

Jeroen van Baar, Steven Poulakos, Wojciech Jarosz, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Rasmus Tamstorf, Markus Gross

Paper Ball-morph: Definition, Implementation and Comparative Evaluation IEEE TVCG, June 2011, 17:6, pp 757-769, © 2011 IEEE Paper

G. Noris, D. Sýkora, S. Coros, B. Whited, M. Simmons, A. Hornung, M. Gross, R. W. Sumner

Paper A Programmable System for Artistic Volumetric Lighting Siggraph 2011

Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Jared Johnson, Andrew Selle, Dylan Lacewell, Michael Kaschalk, Wojciech Jarosz

Talk Tangled Choreographing Destruction: Art Directing a Dam Break Siggraph 2011

Brett Boggs, Lawrence Chai, Michael Kaschalk, Andrew Selle

Talk Gaussian Quadrature for Photon Beams in Tangled Siggraph 2011

Jared M. Johnson, Dylan Lacewell, Andrew Selle, Wojciech Jarosz

Paper Efficient Elasticity for Character Skinning with Contact and Collisions Siggraph 2011

Aleka McAdams, Yongning Zhu, Andrew Selle, Mark Empey, Rasmus Tamstorf, Joseph Teran, Eftychios Sifakis

Talk Directing Hair Motion on Tangled Siggraph 2011

Maryann Simmons, Kelly Ward, Hidetaka Yosumi, Hubert Leo, Xinmin Zhao

Paper Collision-Driven Volumetric Deformation on the GPU Eurographics 2011

G. Aldrich, D. Pinskiy, B. Hamann

Talk Point-Based Hair Global Illumination Siggraph Asia 2010

Ramón Montoya-Vozmediano

Talk Automated Target Selection for DrivenShape Siggraph Asia 2010

Gene S. Lee

Talk A Hybrid Approach to Facial Rigging Siggraph Asia 2010

David Komorowski, Vinod Melapudi, Darren Mortillaro, Gene S. Lee

Paper BetweenIT: An Interactive Tool for Tight Inbetweening Computer Graphics Forum, 2010

Brian Whited, Gioacchino Noris, Maryann Simmons, Robert W. Sumner, Markus Gross, Jarek Rossignac

Talk Simulating Rapunzel’s Hair in Disney’s Tangled Siggraph 2010

Kelly Ward, Maryann Simmons, Andy Milne, Hidetaka Yosumi, Xinmin Zhao

Talk Set’m and Forget’m: A Motion Graphics Pipeline for Effects Siggraph 2010

Ian J. Coony, Brian Silva, Bruce Wright, Andrew Kinney

Talk Example-Based Texture Synthesis on Disney’s Tangled Siggraph 2010

Christian Eisenacher, Chuck Tappan, Brent Burley, Daniel Teece, Arthur Shek

Talk Christmas in July: The Effects Snow Process Siggraph 2010

Ian J. Coony - David Hutchins - Kevin Lee - Mike Harris - Tim Molinder - Kee Suong

Talk Art-Directing Disney’s Tangled Procedural Trees Siggraph 2010

Arthur Shek, Dylan Lacewell, Andrew Selle, Daniel Teece, Tom Thompson

Paper An Artist Friendly Hair Shading System Siggraph 2010

Iman Sadeghi, Heather Pritchett, Henrik Wann Jensen, Rasmus Tamstorf

Paper Sliding Deformation: Shape Preserving Per-Vertex Displacement Eurographics 2010

Dmitriy Pinskiy

Paper CASE STUDY - Beauty and the Beast 3D Benefits of 3D Viewing for 2D to 3D Conversion SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010/Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXI Paper

Tara Handy Turner

Paper Synthetic Turbulence Using Artificial Boundary Layers Siggraph Asia 2009

Tobias Pfaff, Nils Thuerey, Andrew Selle, Markus Gross

Talk Practical Experiences with Pose Space Deformation Siggraph Asia 2009

Gene S. Lee, Frank Hanner

Talk Evaluation of the Radial Basis Function Space Siggraph Asia 2009

Talk Rhino-Palooza: Procedural Animation and Mesh Smoothing Siggraph 2009

Evan Goldberg, Dmitriy Pinskiy

Talk Realistic Eye Motion Using Procedural Geometric Methods Siggraph 2009

Dmitriy Pinskiy, Erick Miller

Talk Medial Axis Techniques for Stereoscopic Extraction Siggraph 2009

Evan Goldberg

Talk Interactive Lighting of Effects Using Point Clouds in Bolt Siggraph 2009

Dale Mayeda

Talk iBind: Smooth Indirect Binding Using Segmented Thin-Layers Siggraph 2009

Chung-An Lin, Erick Miller, Gene S. Lee

Talk Geometric Fracture Modeling in BOLT Siggraph 2009

Jeffrey Hellrung, Andrew Selle, Arthur Shek, Eftychios Sifakis, Joseph Teran

Paper Detail Preserving Continuum Simulation of Straight Hair  Siggraph 2009

Aleka McAdams, Andrew Selle, Kelly Ward, Eftychios Sifakis, Joseph Teran

Talk Composite Based Refraction for Fur and Other Complex Objects Siggraph 2009

Lewis Siegel, Sean Jenkins

Paper Asynchronous Contact Mechanics Siggraph 2009 and CMAME Journal Paper

David Harmon, Etienne Vouga, Brennan Smith, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun

Talk Applying Painterly Concepts in a CG Film - BOLT Siggraph 2009

Adolph Lusinsky, Paul Felix, Ernie Petti, Sean Jenkins, Adrienne Othon, Patrick Dalton, Hank Driskill, John Murrah

Paper Implicit Contact Handling for Deformable Objects Eurographics 2009 Paper

Miguel A. Otaduy, Rasmus Tamstorf, Denis Steinemann, Markus Gross

Paper Dent Removal: Geodesic Curve-Based Mesh Fairing Eurographics 2009

Paper Robust Treatment of Simultaneous Collisions Siggraph 2008

David Harmon, Etienne Vouga, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun

Paper Approximate Topological Matching of Quadrilateral Meshes The Visual Computer 2009 and Shape Modeling International 2008 Paper

David Eppstein, Michael T. Goodrich, Ethan Kim, Rasmus Tamstorf

Paper The Hybrid Theatre Stereoscopic Displays and Applications 2008

Paper Raytracing Prefiltered Occlusion for Aggregate Geometry IEEE Symposium on Interactive Raytracing 2008

Dylan Lacewell, Brent Burley, Solomon Boulos

Paper Motorcycle Graphs: Canonical Quad Mesh Partitioning Symposium on Geometry Processing 2008

Paper Ptex: Per-Face Texture Mapping for Production Rendering Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2008

Brent Burley, Dylan Lacewell

Paper Fast Collision Detection for Deformable Models Using Representative-Triangles i3D 2008

Sean Curtis, Rasmus Tamstorf, Dinesh Manocha

Paper Exact Evaluation of Catmull-Clark Subdivision Surfaces Near B-Spline Boundaries Journal of Graphics Tools 2007 Paper

Dylan Lacewell, Brent Burley

Paper Interactive Collision Detection Between Deformable Models using Chromatic Decomposition Siggraph 2005

Naga K. Govindaraju, David Knott, Nitin Jain, Ilknur Kabul, Rasmus Tamstorf, Russell Gayle, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha

Paper Texture Mapping for Cel Animation Siggraph 1998

Wagner Toledo Correa, Robert J. Jensen, Craig E. Thayer, Adam Finkelstein

Paper Multiperspective Panoramas for Cel Animation Siggraph 1997

Daniel N. Wood, Adam Finkelstein, John F. Hughes, Craig E. Thayer, David H. Salesin

Paper Painterly Rendering for Animation Siggraph 1996

Barbara J. Meier

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The Impulse Particle-In-Cell Method

April 22, 2024 Eurographics 2024 Sergio Sancho (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Jingwei Tang (DisneyResearch|Studios) Christopher Batty (University of Waterloo) Vinicius Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)

CoARF: Controllable 3D Artistic Style Transfer for Radiance Fields

March 18, 2024 3D International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) (2024) Deheng Zhang (ETH Zurich) Clara Fernandez-Labrador (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers  (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Trajectory Augmentation for Robust Neural Locomotion Controllers

February 27, 2024 VISIGRAPP 2024 Dhruv Agrawal (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Jakcob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios) Mathias Koing (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Stereo Conversion with Disparity-Aware Warping, Compositing and Inpainting

January 3, 2024 WACV (2024) Lukas Mehl (Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart) Andrés Bruhn (Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems, University of Stuttgart) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers  (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Pose and Skeleton-aware Neural IK for Pose and Motion Editing

December 11, 2023 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2023) Dhruv Agrawal (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios) Jakcob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios) Dominik Borer (DisneyResearch|Studios) Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)

Empowering Convolutional Neural Networks with MetaSin Activation

December 9, 2023 NeurIPS (2023) Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Tunç Ozan Aydın (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) André Gaillard (ETH Zurich) Guglielmo Camporese (DisneyResearch|Studios/University of Padova) Yuxuan Wang (ETH Zurich)

An Implicit Physical Face Model Driven by Expression and Style

December 11, 2023 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2023) Lingchen Yang (ETH Zurich) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Barbara Solenthaler (ETH Zurich) Eftychios Sifakis (University of Wisconsin) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Neural Video Compression with Spatio-Temporal Cross-Covariance Transformers

October 28, 2023, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia) 2023 Zhenghao Chen (The University of Sydney) Lucas Relic (ETH Zurich) Roberto Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (ETH Zurich) Dong Xu (The University of Hong Kong) Luping Zhou (The University of Sydney) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)

A Perceptual Shape Loss for Monocular 3D Face Reconstruction

October 9, 2023 Pacific Graphics (2023) Christopher Otto (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD), Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios), Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios), Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich), Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios), Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Controllable Inversion of Black-Box Face Recognition Models via Diffusion

October 2, 2023, Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures 2023 Manuel Kansy (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Anton Rael  (ETH Zurich) Graziana Mignone (DisneyResearch|Studios) Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios /ETH Zurich) Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

ReNeRF: Relightable Neural Radiance Fields with Nearfield Lighting

October 2, 2023 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (2023) Yingyan Xu (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios)

The Score-Difference Flow for Implicit Generative Modeling

July 2023, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2023 Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

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)

Graph-Based Synthesis for Skin Micro Wrinkles

July 3, 2023 Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (2023) Sebastian Weiss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Jonathan Moulin (Industrial Light & Magic) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley(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)

Kernel Aware Resampler

June 4, 2023 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023 Michael Bernasconi  (DisneyResearch|Studios) / ETH Zurich), Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) , Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studios), Markus Gross  (DisneyResearch|Studios /ETH Zurich), 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) 

Self-Supervised Effective Resolution Estimation with Adversarial Augmentations

January 3, 2023 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (2023) Manuel Kansy (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Julian Balletshofer (DisneyResearch|Studios) Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Graziana Mignone (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Production-Ready Face Re-Aging for Visual Effects

November 30, 2022 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2022) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Eftychios Sifakis (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Efficient Neural Style Transfer For Volumetric Simulations

November 30, 2022 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2022) Joshua Aurand (DisneyResearch|Studios) Raphaël Oritz (DisneyResearch|Studios) Sylvia Nauer (DisneyResearch|Studios) Vinicius Azevedo (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Deep Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction using Analytic Distributions

November 30, 2022 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2022) Farnood Salehi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Gerhard Röthlin (DisneyResearch|Studios) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios) Marios Papas (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Contrastive Learning for Controllable Blind Video Restoration

November 21, 2022 British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) (2022) Givi Meishvili (DisneyResearch|Studios) Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Sally Hattori (The Walt Disney Company) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)

TempFormer: Temporally Consistent Transformer for Video Denoising

October 11, 2022 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (2022) Mingyang Song (ETH Zürich) Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios) Tunç O. Aydın (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Learning Dynamic 3D Geometry and Texture for Video Face Swapping

October 05, 2022 Pacific Graphics (2022) Christopher Otto (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios) Leonhard Helminger (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Thomas Etterlin (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Graziana Mignone (DisneyResearch|Studios) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Romann Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

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)

Implicit Neural Representation for Physics-driven Actuated Soft Bodies

July 24, 2022 ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 LingchenYang (ETH Zürich) Byungsoo Kim (ETH Zürich) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Baran Gözcü (ETH Zürich) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH) Barbara Solenthaler (ETH Zürich)

Shape Transformers: Topology-Independent 3D Shape Models Using Transformers

April 25, 2022 Eurographics 2022 Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Improved Lighting Models for Facial Appearance Capture

April 25, 2022 Eurographics 2022 Yingyan Xu (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Jérémy Riviere (DisneyResearch|Studios) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Neural Frame Interpolation for Rendered Content

November 30, 2021 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Karlis Martins Briedis (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Mark Meyer (Pixar Animation Studios)Ian McGonigal (Industrial Light & Magic) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Rendering with Style: Combining Traditional and Neural Approaches for High-Quality Face Rendering

November 30, 2021 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Sebastian Winberg (DisneyResearch|Studios) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Jérémy Riviere (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Deep Compositional Denoising for High-quality Monte Carlo Rendering

June 29, 2021 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2021 Xianyao Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Thijs Vogels (EPFL) Henrik Dahlberg (Industrial Light & Magic) Markus Gross ((DisneyResearch|Studios)/ETH Zurich) Marios Papas (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Adaptive Convolutions for Structure-Aware Style Transfer

June 19, 2021 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021 Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Lossy Image Compression with Normalizing Flows

May 8, 2021 Neural Compression Workshop @ ICLR (2021) Leonhard Helminger (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Robust Image Denoising using Kernel Predicting Networks

May 3, 2021 Eurographics 2021 Zhilin Cai (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios) Marco Manzi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Cengiz Oztireli (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich) Tunc Aydin (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Deep HDR estimation with generative detail reconstruction

May 3, 2021 Eurographics 2021 Yang Zhang (DisneyResearch|Studios) Tunc Aydin (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Semantic Deep Face Models

November 25, 2020 3D International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) (2020) Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD), Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios), Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich), Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Deep Deinterlacing

November 10, 2020 SMPTE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (2020) Michael Bernasconi (DisneyResearch|Studios) Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Sally Hattori (The Walt Disney Studios) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Data-driven Extraction and Composition of Secondary Dynamics in Facial Performance Capture

August 17, 2020 ACM Siggraph 2020 Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Eftychios Sifakis (University of Wisconsin, Madison/DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Single-Shot High-Quality Facial Geometry and Skin Appearance Capture

August 14, 2020 ACM Siggraph 2020 Jeremy Riviere (DisneyResearch|Studios) Paulo Gotardo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Abhijeet Ghosh (Imperial College London) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Interactive Sculpting of Digital Faces Using an Anatomical Modeling Paradigm

July 6, 2020 Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (2020) Aurel Gruber (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Marco Fratarcangeli (Chalmers University of Technology/DisneyResearch|Studios) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Roman Cattaneo (DisneyResearch|Studios) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios)

High-Resolution Neural Face Swapping for Visual Effects

June 29, 2020 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2020) Jacek Naruniec (DisneyResearch|Studios) Leonhard Helminger (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Romann M. Weber (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Attention-Driven Cropping for Very High Resolution Facial Landmark Detection

June 16, 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020 Prashanth Chandran (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios) Markus Gross (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)

Fast Nonlinear Least Squares Optimization of Large-Scale Semi-Sparse Problems

May 25, 2020 Eurographics 2020 Marco Fratarcangeli (Chalmers University of Technology/DisneyResearch|Studios) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Aurel Gruber (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Gaspard Zoss (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Facial Expression Synthesis using a Global-Local Multilinear Framework

May 25, 2020 Eurographics 2020 Mengjiao Wang (DisneyResearch|Studios Intern) Derek Bradley (DisneyResearch|Studios) Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College London) Thabo Beeler (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Rig-space Neural Rendering

Marc 24, 2020arxiv.org Dominik Borer (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Lu Yuhang (ETH Zurich) Laura Wuelfroth (ETH Zurich) Jakob Buhmann (DisneyResearch|Studios) Martin Guay (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Deep Generative Video Compression

November 4, 2019 NeurIPS 2019 Jun Han (Dartmouth College) Salvator Lombardo (Disney Research LA) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios) Stephan Mandt (University of California, Irvine)

Differentiable Surface Splatting for Point-based Geometry Processing

November 1, 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Yifan Wang (ETH Zurich) Serena Felice (ETH Zurich) Wu Shihao (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Oztireli (DisneyResearch|Studios) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)

Blind image super resolution with spatially variant degradations

November 1, 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Victor Cornillère (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Yifan Wang (ETH Zurich) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Parameterized Animated Activities

October 28, 2019 ACM MIG 2019 Alba M. Rios Rodriguez (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Steven Poulakos (DisneyResearch|Studios) Maurizio Nitti (DisneyResearch|Studios) Mattia Ryffel (DisneyResearch|Studios) Robert W. Sumner (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Zurich)

Neural Inter-Frame Compression for Video Coding

October 27, 2019 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019 Abdelaziz Djelouah (DisneyResearch|Studios) Joaquim Campos (DisneyResearch|Studios Intern) Simone Schaub-Meyer (DisneyResearch|Studios/ETH Joint PhD) Christopher Schroers (DisneyResearch|Studios)

Spectrogram Feature Losses for Music Source Separation

September 2, 2019 Eusipco 2019 Abhimanyu Sahai (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Romann Weber (Disney Research) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research)

Tangent Space Optimization of Controls for Character Animation

July 12, 2019 ACM Siggraph 2019 Loïc Ciccone (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Öztireli (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ ETH Zurich)

Accurate Markerless Jaw Tracking for Facial Performance Capture

July 12, 2019 ACM Siggraph 2019 Gaspard Zoss (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (Disney Research)

Neural Importance Sampling

July 12, 2019 ACM Siggraph 2019 Thomas Müller (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Jan Novak (Disney Research)

Neural Sequential Phrase Grounding (SeqGROUND)

June 16, 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019 Pelin Dogan (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Leonid Sigal (University of British Columbia/Vector Institute) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Explaining Deep Neural Networks with a Polynomial Time Algorithm for Shapley Value Approximation

June 10, 2019 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019 Marco Ancona (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Oztireli (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Generating Animations from Screenplays

June 1, 2019 *SEM 2019 Yeyao Zhang (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Eleftheria Tsipidi (Disney Research) Sasha Schriber (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Disney Research/Rutgers University) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Ashutosh Modi (Disney Research)

Learning-based Sampling for Natural Image Matting

June 16, 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019 Jingwei Tang (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Yagız Aksoy (ETH Zurich) Cengiz Oztireli (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research)

Practical Person-Specific Eye Rigging

May 6, 2019 Eurographics 2019 Pascal Bérard (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Analysis of Sample Correlations for Monte Carlo Rendering

May 6, 2019 Eurographics 2019 Gurprit Singh (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken) Cengiz Öztireli (Disney Research) Abdalla G.M. Ahmed (KAUST) David Coeurjolly (Université de Lyon / CNRS) Kartic Subr (University of Edinburgh) Oliver Deussen (University of Konstanz) Victor Ostromoukhov (Université de Lyon / CNRS) Ravi Ramamoorthi (University of California, San Diego) Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth College)

StoryPrint: an Interactive Visualization of Stories

March 17, 2019 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST) 2019 Kate Watson (Disney Research) Sasha Schriber (Disney Research) Carlos Muniz (Rutgers University) Samuel Sohn (Rutgers University) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University)

Animating an Autonomous 3D Talking Avatar

February 15, 2019 arxiv 2019 Dominik Borer (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Dominic Lutz (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Martin Guay (Disney Research)

The Role of Closed-Loop Hand Control in Handshaking Interactions

January 16, 2019 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2019 Francesco Vigni (University of Siena) Espen Knoop (Disney Research) Domenico Prattichizzo (University of Siena/Italian Institute of Technology) Monica Malvezzi (University of Siena/Italian Institute of Technology)

Incremental Acquisition and Reuse of Multimodal Affective Behaviors in a Conversational Agent

December 16, 2018 International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction 2018 Maike Paetzel (Disney Research/Uppsala) James Kennedy (Disney Research) Ginevra Castellano (Uppsala University) Jill Lehman (Disney Research)

A Two-Level Planning Framework for Mixed Reality Interactive Narratives with User Engagement

December 10, 2018 IEEE AIVR 2018 Manuel Braunschweiler (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Disentangled Dynamic Representations from Unordered Data

December 2, 2018 Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference 2018 Leonhard Helminger (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Aziz Djelouah (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Romann Weber (Disney Research)

Practical Dynamic Facial Appearance Modeling and Acquisition

November 27, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Paulo Gotardo (Disney Research) Jeremy Riviere (Disney Research) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Abhijeet Ghosh (Imperial College London) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Appearance Capture and Modeling of Human Teeth

November 27, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Zdravko Velinov (Disney Research/Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) Marios Papas (Disney Research) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Paulo Gotardo (Disney Research) Parsa Mirdehghan (Disney Research) Steve Marschner (Cornell University) Jan Novak (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Set-In-Stone: Worst-Case Optimization of Structures Weak in Tension

November 27, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Christian Schumacher (Disney Research) Jonas Zehnder (Disney Research/Université de Montréal) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research)

A radiative transfer framework for non-exponential media

November 27, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Benedikt Bitterli (Dartmouth College) Srinath Ravichandran (Dartmouth College) Thomas Müller (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Magnus Wrenninge (Pixar Animation Studios) Jan Novak (Disney Research) Steve Marschner (Cornell University) Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth College)

Bend-It: Design and Fabrication of Kinetic Wire Characters

November 27, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Hongyi Xu (Disney Research) Espen Knoop (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (ETH Zurich) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research)

PuppetPhone: Puppeteering Virtual Characters Using a Smartphone

November 8, 2018 Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games Raphael Anderegg (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Loic Ciccone (ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

PICA: Proactive Intelligent Conversational Agent for Interactive Narratives

November 5, 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2018 Jessica Falk (ETH Zurich) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research)

AR Costumes: Automatically Augmenting Watertight Costumes from a single RGB Image

Ocotber 30, 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2018 Christoph Maurhofer (DRZ/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Gokçen Çimen (DRZ/ETH Joint PhD) Mattia Ryffel (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Martin Guay (Disney Research)

Designing Groundless Body Channel Communication Systems: Performance and Implications

October 14, 2018 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST) 2018 Virag Varga (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Marc Wyss (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Gergely Vakulya (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Alanson Sample (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

PaintCopter: An Autonomous UAV for Spray Painting on 3D Surfaces

October 2, 2018 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2018 Anurag Vempati (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Mina Kamel (ETH Zurich) Nikola Stilinovic (Disney Research) Qixuan Zhang (Disney Research) Dorothea Reusser (Disney Research) Inkyu Sa (ETH Zurich) Juan Nieto (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

StreetMap – Mapping and Localization on Ground Planes using a Downward Facing Camera

October 1, 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018 Xu Chen (Disney Research) Anurag Vempati (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Closed-Loop Temperature Control of Nylon Artificial Muscles

October 1, 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018 Carter Haines (University of Texas at Dallas) Gunter Niemeyer (Disney Research)

On Regularized Losses for Weakly-supervised CNN Segmentation

September 8, 2018 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2018 Meng Tang (University of Waterloo) Federico Perazzi (Adobe Research) Aziz Djelouah (Disney Research) Ismail Ben Ayed (ETS Montreal) Christopher Schroers (Disney Research) Yuri Boykov (University of Waterloo)

Deep Video Color Propagation

September 4, 2018 British Machine Vision Conference 2018 Simone Schaub (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Victor Cornillère (Disney Research) Aziz Djelouah (Disney Research) Christopher Schroers (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Expressing Coherent Personality with Incremental Acquisition of Multimodal Behaviors

August 27, 2018 International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2018 Pedro Mota (Disney Research/Technical University of Lisbon) Maike Paetzel (Disney Research/Uppsala) Andrea Fox (Disney Research) Aida Amini (Disney Research/University of Washington) Sid Srinivasan (Disney Research/Georgia Tech) James Kennedy (Disney Research) Jill Lehman (Disney Research)

Denoising Deep Monte Carlo Renderings

August 27, 2018 EU Computer Graphics Forum (EU CGF) 2018 Delio Vicini (Disney Research/Walt Disney Animation Studios) David Adler (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Jan Novak (Disney Research) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Brent Burley (Walt Disney Animation Studios)

An Omnistereoscopic Video Pipeline for Capture and Display of Real-World VR

August 9, 2018 ACM Transactions on Graphics 2018 Christopher Schroers (Disney Research) Jean-Charles Bazin (KAIST) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Mechanical Characterization of Structured Sheet Materials

July 30, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Christian Schumacher (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Steve Marschner (Cornell University) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Université de Montréal)

Denoising with Kernel Prediction and Asymmetric Loss Functions

July 30, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Thijs Vogels (Disney Research) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research) Gerhard Röthlin (Disney Research) Alex Harvill (Pixar Animation Studios) David Adler (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Mark Meyer (Pixar Animation Studios) Jan Novak (Disney Research)

An Empirical Rig for Jaw Animation

July 30, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Gaspard Zoss (Disney Research) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Pascal Bérard (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

AR Poser: Automatically Augmenting Mobile Pictures with Digital Avatars Imitating Poses

July 18, 2018 12th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing 2018 Gokçen Çimen (ETH Zurich) Christoph Maurhofer (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Martin Guay (Disney Research)

Disentangled Sequential Autoencoder

July 1, 2018 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018 Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research)

Challenges in Exploiting Conversational memory in Human-Agent Interaction

July 11, 2018 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2018 Joana Campos (Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research) James Kennedy (Disney Research) Jill Lehman (Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research)

User-Guided Lip Correction for Facial Performance Capture

July 11, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2018 Dimitar Dinev (Disney Research/University of Utah) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research) Hongyi Xu (Disney Research) Ladislav Kavan (University of Utah)

Improving Optimization in Models with Continuous Symmetry Breaking

July 1, 2018 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018 Robert Bamler (Disney Research) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research)

HairControl: A Tracking Solution for Directable Hair Simulation

July 11, 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2018 Antoine Milliez (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research/Université de Montréal)

Quasi Monte Carlo Variational Inference

July 9, 2018 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018 Alexander Buchholz (ENSAE-CREST) Florian Wenzel (Humboldt University of Berlin) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research)

Iterative Amortized Inference

July 9, 2018 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018 Joe Marino (California Institute of Technology (Caltech)) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology (Caltech)) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research) 

Computational Design of Robotic Devices from High-Level Motion Specifications

July 3, 2018 IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2018 Sehoon Ha (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (ETH Zurich) Alex Alspach (Disney Research) James Bern (ETH Zurich) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)

Automated Deep Reinforcement Learning Environment for Hardware of a Modular Legged Robot

June 27, 2018 International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots 2018 Sehoon Ha (Disney Research) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)

Normalized Cut Loss for Weakly-supervised CNN Segmentation

June 18, 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018 Meng Tang (Disney Research/University of Waterloo) Aziz Djelouah (Disney Research) Federico Perazzi (Disney Research) Yuri Boykov (University of Waterloo) Christopher Schroers (Disney Research)

PhaseNet for Video Frame Interpolation

June 18, 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018 Simone Schaub (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Aziz Djelouah (Disney Research) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers (Disney Research)

A Progressive Approach to Single-Image Super-Resolution

June 18, 2018 CVPR NTIRE Workshop 2018 Yifan Wang (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Federico Perazzi (Disney Research) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich) Christopher Schroers (Disney Research)

Computational Co-Optimization of Design Parameters and Motion Trajectories for Robotic Systems

June 5, 2018 International Journal of Robotics Research 2018 Sehoon Ha (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (ETH Zurich) Alex Alspach (Toyota Research Institute) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)

Compressed Animated Light Fields with Real-time View-dependent Reconstruction

April 30, 2018 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2018 Charalampos Koniaris (Disney Research) Maggie Kosek (Disney Research) David Sinclair (Disney Research ) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Design and Fabrication of a Soft Robotic Hand and Arm System

April 25, 2018 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics 2018 Alex Alspach (Disney Research) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney  Research)

Force Jacket: Pneumatically-Actuated Jacket for Embodied Haptic Experiences

April 21, 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2018 Alexandra Delazio (Disney Research) Ken Nakagaki (Disney Research/MIT) Roberta Klatzky (Carnegie Mellon University) Scott Hudson (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Jill Lehman (Disney Research) Alanson Sample (Disney Research)

Wall++: Room-Scale Interactive and Context-Aware Sensing

April 21, 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2018 Yang Zhang (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Chouchang (Jack) Yang (Disney Research) Scott Hudson (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Chris Harrison (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Alanson Sample (Disney Research)

State of the Art on Monocular 3D Face Reconstruction, Tracking, and Applications

April 16, 2018 Eurographics  2018 Michael Zollhöfer (Max Planck Institute for Informatics/Stanford University) Justus Thies (Technical University of Munich) Pablo Garrido (Max Planck Institute for Informatics/Technicolor) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Patrick Pérez (Technicolor) Marc Stamminger (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg) Matthias Niessner (Technical University of Munich) Christian Theobalt (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) 

Monte Carlo Methods for Volumetric Light Transport Simulation

April 16, 2018 Eurographics  2018 Jan Novak (Disney Research) Iliyan Georgiev (Solid Angle) Johannes Hanika (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth College)

Recent Advances in Projection Mapping Algorithms,Hardware and Applications

April 16, 2018 Eurographics 2018 Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research) Daisuke Iwai (Osaka University)

From Faces to Outdoor Light Probes

April 16, 2018 Eurographics 2018 Dan Calian (University City College London) Tomas Simon (Carnegie Mellon University) Paulo Gotardo (Disney Research) Jean-Francois Lalonde (Laval University) Iain Matthews (Carnegie Mellon University) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Paxel: A Generic Framework to Superimpose High-Frequency Print Patterns using Projected Light

April 6, 2018 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2018 Petar Pjanic (Disney Research) Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research)

Exploration of Geometry and Forces Occurring Within Human-to-Robot Handovers

March 25, 2018 IEEE Haptics Symposium 2018 Matthew K.X.J. Pan (University of British Columbia) Elizabeth Croft (University of British Columbia, Canada) Gunter Niemeyer (Disney Research)

Evaluating Social Perception of Human-to-Robot Handovers using the Robot Social Attributes Scale (RoSAS)

March 5, 2018 Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2018 Matthew K.X.J. Pan (University of British Columbia) Elizabeth Croft (University of British Columbia, Canada) Gunter Niemeyer (Disney Research)

Computer-Assisted Authoring for Natural Language Story Scripts

February 4, 2018 30th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-18) 2018 Rushit Sanghrajka (Disney Research) Wojciech Witoń (Disney Research) Sasha Schriber (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Mubbasir Kapadia (Disney Research/Rutgers University)

InspireMe: Learning Sequence Models for Stories

February 4, 2018 30th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-18) 2018 Vincent Fortuin (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Romann M. Weber (Disney Research) Sasha Schriber (Disney Research) Diana Wotruba (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Reversible Jump Metropolis Light Transport using Inverse Mappings

January 31, 2018 ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2018 Benedikt Bitterli (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc./Dartmouth College) Wenzel Jakob (EPFL) Jan Novak (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research/Dartmouth College)

Enabling Interactive Infrastructure with Body Channel Communication

December 31, 2017 Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 2017 Virag Varga (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Gergely Vakulya (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Alanson Sample (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

Method for Efficient CPU-GPU Streaming for Walkthrough of Full Motion Lightfield Video

December 11, 2017 European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP) 2017 Floyd Chitalu (University of Edinburgh) Babis Koniaris (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Story Version Control and Graphical Visualization for Collaborative Story Authoring

December 11, 2017 Conference for Visual Media Production (CVMP) 2017 Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Towards Emergent Play in Mixed Reality

November 27, 2017 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual and Augmented Worlds (AIVRAR) 2017 Patrick Misteli (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Deep Scattering: Rendering Atmospheric Clouds with Radiance-Predicting Neural Networks

November 20, 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Simon Kallweit (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Thomas Müller (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Jan Novak (Disney Research)

MetaSilicone: Design and Fabrication of Composite Silicone with Desired Mechanical Properties

November 20, 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Jonas Zehnder (Disney Research/Université de Montréal) Espen Knoop (Disney Research) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research/Université de Montréal)

Deep Deformable Patch Metric Learning for Person Re-identification

November 15, 2017 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) 2017 Slawomir Bak (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research)

Interacting with Intelligent Characters in AR

November 15, 2017 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual and Augmented Worlds (AIVRAR) 2017 Gokçen Çimen (ETH Zurich) Ye Yuan (Carnegie Mellon University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (ETH Zurich) Martin Guay (Disney Research)

Hand-to-Hand: An Intermanual Illusion of Movement

November 13, 2017 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2017 Dario Pittera (Disney Research/University of Sussex) Marianna Obrist (University of Sussex) Ali Israr (Disney Research)

Multimode Quasistatic Cavity Resonators for Wireless Power Transfer

October 27, 2017 IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 2017 Takuya Sasatani (Disney Research) Matthew Chabalko (Disney Research) Yoshihiro Kawahara (University of Tokyo) Alanson Sample (Disney Research) 

Editable Parametric Dense Foliage from 3D Capture

October 22, 2017 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017 Gaurav Chaurasia (Disney Research) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Robust Geometric Self-Calibration of Generic Multi-Projector Camera Systems

October 9, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2017 Simon Willi (Disney Research) Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research)

Scheduling Live Interactive Narratives with Mixed-Integer Linear Programming

October 5, 2017 The 13th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 2017 Sasha Azad (Disney Research) Jingyang Xu (Decision Science, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts) Haining Yu (Decision Science, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts) Boyang Li (Disney Research)

Towards Edge-Aware Spatio-Temporal Filtering in Real-Time

October 2, 2017 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2017 Michael Schaffner (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Florian Scheidegger (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Lukas Cavigelli (ETH Zurich) Hubert Kaeslin (ETH Zurich) Luca Benini (ETH Zurich) Aljosa Smolic (Trinity College Dublin)

Validation of the Robot Social Attributes Scale (RoSAS) for Human-Robot Interaction through a Human-to-Robot Handover Use Case

September 24, 2017 IROS 2017 Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction in Collaborative Manufacturing Environments Matt Pan (Disney Research) Elizabeth Croft (University of British Columbia, Canada) Gunter Niemeyer (Disney Research)

Snapbot: a Reconfigurable Legged Robot

September 24, 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017 Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Alexander Alspach (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)

Handshakiness: Benchmarking for Human-Robot Hand Interactions

September 24, 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017 Espen Knoop (Disney Research) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research) Vincent Wall (TU Berlin) Raphael Deimel (TU Berlin) Oliver Brock (TU Berlin) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Onboard Real-time Dense Reconstruction of Large-scale Environments for UAV

September 24, 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017 Anurag Vempati (Disney Research )Igor Gilitschenski (ETH Zurich) Juan Nieto (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)

Toward torque control of a KUKA LBR IIWA for physical human-robot interaction

September 24, 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017 Vinay Chawda (Disney Research) Gunter Niemeyer (Disney Research)

Falling with Style: Sticking the Landing by Controlling Spin during Ballistic Flight

September 24, 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2017 Morgan Pope (Disney Research) Gunter Niemeyer (Disney Research)

EM-Comm: Touch Base Communication via Modulated Electromagnetic Emissions

September 13, 2017 ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 2017, International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2017 Chouchang (Jack) Yang (Disney Research) Alanson Sample (Disney Research)

Methods for Studying Group Interactions in HRI

September 13, 2017 Robots in Groups and Teams – A CSCW 2017 Workshop 2017 Marynel Vazquez (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Elizabeth J. Carter (Disney Research) Jodi Forlizzi (Disney Research/HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Scott E. Hudson (Disney Research/HCI Insitute, Carnegie Mellon University) Aaron Steinfeld (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)

Deep Spatial Pyramid for Person Re-identification

August 30, 2017 The 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS) 2017 Slawomir Bak (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research)

Augmented Reality Dialog Interface for Multimodal Teleoperation

August 28, 2017 International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2017 Andre Pereira (Disney Research) Elizabeth J. Carter (Disney Research) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) John Mars (Disney Research) Jill Lehmann (Disney Research)

Learning and Reusing Dialog for Repeated Interactions with a Situated Social Agent

August 27, 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2017 James Kennedy (Disney Research) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research, KTH Royal Institute of Technology) André Pereira (Disney Research) Ming Sun (Disney Research) Boyang Li (Disney Research) Rishub Jain (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Ricson Cheng (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Eli Pincus (Disney Research/USC Institute for Creative Technologies) Elizabeth J. Carter (Disney Research) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research)

AR Museum: A Mobile Augmented Reality Application for Interactive Painting Recoloring

August 23, 2017 Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2017 Mattia Ryffel (Disney Research) Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Yagiz Aksoy (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD)Alessia Marra (Disney Research) Maurizio Nitti (Disney Research) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research)

Predicting the Quality of Short Narratives from Social Media

August 19, 2017 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2017 Tong Wang (Disney Research/University of Massachusetts Boston) Ping Chen (University of Massachusetts Boston) Boyang Albert Li (Disney Research) 

Determinantal Point Processes for Mini-Batch Diversification

August 12, 2017 Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2017 Cheng Zhang (Disney Research) Hedvig Kjellström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research) 

Geometric and Photometric Consistency in a Mixed Video and Galvanoscopic Scanning Laser Projection Mapping System

August 11, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2017 Petar Pjanic (Disney Research) Simon Willi (Disney Research) Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research)

Dynamic Word Embeddings

August 6, 2017 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2017 Robert Bamler (Disney Research) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research)

Coordinated Multi-Agent Imitation Learning

August 6, 2017 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2017 Hoang Le (California Institute of Technology) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Patrick Lucey (STATS LLC)

Noise Reduction on G-Buffers for Monte Carlo Filtering

August 1, 2017 Computer Graphics Forum 2017 Bochang Moon (Disney Research/Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) Jose A. Iglesias-Guitian (Disney Research) Steven McDonagh (Disney Research/Imperial College London) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Computational Narrative

July 30, 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

Designing Cable-Driven Actuation Networks for Kinematic Chains and Trees

July 28, 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2017 Vittorio Megaro (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Espen Knoop (Disney Research) Andrew Spielberg (Disney Research/Massachusetts Institute of Technology) David Levin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Wojciech Matusik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research)

Painting by Feature

July 21, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Michal Lukac (CTU in Prague, FEE) Jakub Fiser (CTU in Prague, FEE) Jean-Charles Bazin (ETH Zurich) Ondrej Jamriska (CTU in Prague, FEE) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Daniel Sykora (CTU in Prague, FEE)

Factorized Variational Autoencoders for Modeling Audience Reactions to Movies

July 22, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017 Zhiwei Deng (Simon Fraser University) Rajitha Navarathna (Disney Research)  Peter Carr (Disney Research) Stephan Mandt (Disney Research) Ysong Yue (Caltech) Iain Mathews (Disney Research) Greg Mori (Simon Fraser University) 

One-Shot Metric Learning for Person Re-identification

July 22, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017 Slawomir Bak (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research)

A Practical Method for Fully Automatic Intrinsic Camera Calibration Using Directionally Encoded Light

July 22, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017 Mahdi Tehrani (University of California, Irvine) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research)

Weakly-supervised Visual Grounding of Phrases with Linguistic Structures

July 21, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017 Fanyi Xiao (University of California Davis) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) Yong Jae Lee (University of California Davis)

Authoring Motion Cycles

July 21, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017 Loic Ciccone (ETH Zurich) Martin Guay (Disney Research) Maurizio Nitti (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research)

Spectral Decomposition Tracking for Rendering Heterogeneous Volumes

July 20, 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Peter Kutz (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Ralf Habel (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Karl Li (Walt Disney Animation Studios)Jan Novak (Disney Research)

A Deep Learning Approach for Generalized Speech Animation

July 20, 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Sarah Taylor (University of East Anglia) Taehwan Kim (California Institute of Technology) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology)Moshe Mahler (Disney Research) Jimmy Krahe (Disney Research) Anastasio Garcia Rodrigues (Disney Research) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research) Iain Matthews (Disney Research)

Kernel-predicting Convolutional Networks for Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings

July 20, 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Steve Bako (University of California Santa Barbara) Thijs Vogels (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research) Mark Meyer (Pixar Animation Studios) Jan Novak (Disney Research) Alex Harvill (Pixar Animation Studios) Pradeep Sen (University of California, Santa Barbara) Tony DeRose (Pixar Animation Studios)Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research)

A Computational Design Tool for Compliant Mechanisms

July 20, 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Vittorio Megaro (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Jonas Zehnder (Disney Research) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Carnegie Mellon University) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research)

Computational Design and Automated Fabrication of Kirchhoff-Plateau Surfaces

July 20, 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Jesús Rodríguez (URJC Madrid) Miguel Otaduy (URJC Madrid) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research)

Joint Optimization of Robot Design and Motion Parameters using the Implicit Function Theorem

July 12, 2017 Robotics: Science and Systems 2017 Sehoon Ha (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Carnegie Mellon University) Alex Alspach (Disney Research) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)

Active Vertical Stabilization Mechanism for Lightweight Handheld Cameras

July 3, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2017 Utku Pehlivan (Disney Research) Gunter Niemeyer (Disney Research)

Persistent Memory in Repeated Child-Robot Conversations

June 27, 2017 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2017 Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) Andre Pereira (Disney Research) Jill Lehman (Disney Research)

Investigating the Effects of Interactive Features for Preschool Television Programming

June 27, 2017 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2017 Liz Carter (Disney Research) Jennifer Hyde (Disney Research) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research)

Collaborative Storytelling between Robot and Child: A Feasibility Study

June 27, 2017 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2017 Ming Sun (Disney Research) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research/KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research) Boyang Albert Li (Disney Research)

Learning Video Object Segmentation from Static Images

July 22, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017 Federico Perazzi (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Anna Khoreva (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrucken) Rodrigo Benenson (Max Planck Institute for Informatics Saarbrucken) Bernt Schiele (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrucken) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Designing Effective Inter-Pixel Information Flow for Natural Image Matting

July 22, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017 Yagiz Aksoy (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Marc Pollefeys (ETH Zurich)

Practical Path Guiding for Efficient Light-Transport Simulation

June 19, 2017 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) Thomas Müller (Disney Research/ETH PhD) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Jan Novak (Disney Research)

Groups Re-identification with Temporal Context

June 7, 2017 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2017 Michal Koperski (Inria Sophia Antipolis) Slawomir Bak (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research)

Cross-modal Correspondence between Vibrations and Colors

June 6, 2017 IEEE World Haptics Conference 2017 Alexandra Delazio (Disney Research) Ali Israr (Disney Research) Roberta Klatzky (Carnegie Mellon University)

RFID Light Bulb: Enabling Ubiquitous Deployment of Interactive RFID Systems

June 5, 2017 International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2017 Jeremy Gummeson (Disney Research) Jim McCann (Disney Research) Couchang Jack Yang (Disney Research) Damith Ranasinghe (University of Adelaide) Scott Hudson (Carnegie Mellon University) Alanson Sample (Disney Research)

Real-Time Multi-View Facial Capture with Synthetic Training

May 23, 2017 Eurographics 2017 Martin Klaudiny (Disney Research) Steven McDonagh (Disney Research) Derek Bradley ( Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research/Edinburgh Napier University) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Perspective Correct Occlusion-Capable Augmented Reality Displays using Cloaking Optics Constraints

May 22, 2017 Society for Information Display (SID) 2017 Quinn Smithwick (Disney Research) Isella Howlett (Disney Research)

Real-time Rendering with Compressed Animated Light Fields

May 16, 2017 Graphics Interface 2017 Charalampos Koniaris (Disney Research) Maggie Kosek (Disney Research) David Sinclair (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Riding the Airways: Ultra-Wideband Ambient Backscatter via Commercial Broadcast Systems

May 1, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communication (IEEE Infocom) 2017 Couchang Jack Yang (Disney Research) Jeremy Gummeson (Disney Research) Alanson Sample (Disney Research)

Simulation-Ready Hair Capture

April 24, 2017 Eurographics 2017 Liwen Hu (Disney Research/Pinscreen/University of Southern California) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Hao Li (Pinscreen/University of Southern California) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Enriching Facial Blendshape Rigs with Physical Simulation

April 24, 2017 Eurographics 2017 Yeara Kozlov (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Makeup Lamps: Live Augmentation of Human Faces via Projection

April 24, 2017 Eurographics 2017 Amit Bermano (Disney Research/Princeton University) Markus Billeter (Chalmers University) Daisuke Iwai (Osaka University) Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research)

Unmixing-Based Soft Color Segmentation for Image Manipulation

April 21, 2017 ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2017 Yagiz Aksoy (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Marc Pollefeys (ETH Zurich)

Learn How to Choose: Independent Detectors versus Composite Visual Phrases

March 27, 2017 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2017 Guy Rosenthal (Tel Aviv University) Ariel Shamir (The Interdisciplinary Center) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research)

Catching a Real Ball in Virtual Reality

March 18, 2017 IEEE Virtual Reality 2017 Gunter Niemeyer (Disney Research) Matt Pan (Disney Research)

Rapid One-Shot Acquisition of Dynamic VR Avatars

March 18, 2017 IEEE Virtual Reality 2017 Charles Malleson (Disney Research) Maggie Kosek (Disney Research/Edinburgh Napier University) Martin Klaudiny (Disney Research) Ivan Huerta (Disney Research) Jean-Charles Bazin (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)Mark Mine (Walt Disney Imagineering,) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research/Edinburgh Napier University)

Contact Pressure Distribution as an Evaluation Metric for Human-Robot Hand Interactions

March 7, 2017 HRI 2017 workshop – Towards reproducible HRI experiments: scientific endeavors, benchmarking and standardization 2017 Espen Knoop (Disney Research) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Towards Robot Autonomy in Group Conversations: Understanding the Effects of Body Orientation and Gaze

March 6, 2017 Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2017 Marynel Vazquez (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Elizabeth J, Carter (Disney Research) Braden McDorman (Disney Research) Jodi Forlizzi (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Aaron Steinfeld (Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Scott E. Hudson (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University)

Creating Prosodic Synchrony for a Robot Co-player in a Speech-controlled game for Children

March 6, 2017 Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2017 Najmeh Sadoughi (Disney Research/University of Texas at Dallas) André Pereira (Disney Research) Rishub Jain (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) Jill Fain Lehmann (Disney Research)

Data-Driven Ghosting using Deep Imitation Learning

March 3, 2017 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2017 Hoang M. Le (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Yisong Yue (California of Technology) Patrick Lucey (STATS LLC)

Quasistatic Cavity Resonance for Ubiquitous Wireless Power Transfer

July 23, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2015 Stephane Magnenat (Disney Research) Dat Tien Ngo (EPF Lausanne) Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Mattia Ryffel (Disney Research) Chino Noris (Disney Research) Gerhard Röthlin (Disney Research) Alessia Marra (Disney Research) Maurizio Nitti (Disney Research) Pascal Fua (EPF Lausanne) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Bob Sumner (Disney Research)

Haplug: A Haptic Plug for Dynamic VR Interactions

February 14, 2017 Asia Haptics 2017 Nobuhisa Hanamitsu (Disney Research) Ali Israr (Disney Research)

METhoD: a Framework for the Emulation of a Delay Tolerant Network Scenario for Media-Content Distribution in Under-Served Regions

January 31, 2017 Book Chapter: River Publisher, indexed by Web of Science Book Citation Index (BkCI) 2017 Adriano Galati (Disney Research) Sandra Siby (Disney Research/ETH Joint Semester Thesis) Theodoros Bourchas (Disney Research) Maria Olivares (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

Advanced Tools and Framework for Historical Film Restoration

January 13, 2017 Journal of Electronic Imaging 2017 Simone Croci (Disney Research) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Nikolce Stefanoski (uniqFEED AG) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Aljosa Smolic (Trinity College Dublin)

Electromagnetic Time Reversal Focusing of Near Field Waves in Metamaterials

Real-time Physics-based Motion Capture with Sparse Sensors

December 12, 2016 Conference for Visual Media Production (CVMP) 2016 Sheldon Andrews (Disney Research) Ivan Huerta (Disney Research) Taku Komura (University of Edinburgh) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

3-Dimensional Charging via Multi-Mode Resonant Cavity Enabled Wireless Power Transfer

November 30, 2015 Transactions on Power Electronics 2015 Matthew J. Chabalko (Disney Research) Alanson P. Sample (Disney Research)

HDR Image Noise Estimation for Denoising Tone Mapped Images

November 24, 2015 Conference for Visual Media Production (CVMP) 2015 Miguel Granados (Disney Research/MPI for Informatics) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) J. Rafael Tena (Disney Research) Jean-François Lalonde (Laval University) Christian Theobalt (MPI for Informatics)

Evaluating Accessible Graphical Interfaces for Building Story Worlds

November 15, 2016 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2016 Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Guido Maria Maiga (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

Semi-situated Learning of Verbal and Nonverbal Content for Repeated Human-Robot Interaction

November 12, 2016 ICMI 2016 Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) Andre Pereira (Disney Research) Allison Funkhouser (Disney Research) Boyang Albert Li (Disney Research) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research)

Corrective 3D Reconstruction of Lips from Monocular Video

November 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Pablo Garrido (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Michael Zollhöfer (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Chenglei Wu (ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Patrick Pérez (Technicolor) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Christian Theobalt (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)

Image-Space Control Variates for Rendering

November 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth College) Jan Novak (Disney Research)

Efficient Rendering of Heterogeneous Poly-Disperse Granular Media

November 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Thomas Müller (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Marios Papas (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth College) Jan Novak (Disney Research)

Model-Based Teeth Reconstruction

November 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Chenglei Wu (ETH Zürich) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Pablo Garrido (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Michael Zollhöfer (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Christian Theobolt (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Synthetic Prior Design for Real-Time Face Tracking

October 25, 2016 3D International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2016 Steven McDonagh (Disney Research) Martin Klaudiny (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Iain Matthews (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Point Cloud Noise and Outlier Removal for Image-Based 3D Reconstruction

October 25, 2016 3D International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2016 Katja Wolff (Disney Research/ ETH Zurich) Kim Changil (ETH Zurich) Henning Zimmer (Disney Research) Christopher Schroers (Disney Research) Mario Botsch (Bielefeld University) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

An Event-Centric Approach to Authoring Stories in Crowds

October 10, 2016 Motion in Games 2016 Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Alexander Shoulson (Disney Research) Cyril Steimer (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Samuel Oberholzer (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Multi-party Language Interaction in a Fast-paced Game Using Multi-keyword Spotting

September 20, 2016 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2016 Jill Lehman (Disney Research) Nikolas Wolfe (Disney Research) Andre Pereira (Disney Research)

A 3D Printer for Interactive Electromagnetic Devices

October 16, 2016 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST) 2016 Huaishu Peng (Disney Research/Computing and Information Science) Francois Guimbretiere (Disney Research/Cornell University) James McCann (Disney Research) Scott E. Hudson (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University)

ActionSnapping: Motion-based Video Synchronization

October 15, 2016 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2016 Jean-Charles Bazin (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

A Task-level iterative learning control algorithm for accurate tracking in manipulators with modeling errors and stringent joint position limits

October 12, 2016 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference 2016 Pranav Bhounsule (University of Texas San Antonio) Abhishek Bapat (University of Texas San Antonio) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)

Tree Cavity Inspection Using Aerial Robots

October 11, 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2016 Kelly Steich (Disney Research Zurich/ETH Zurich) Mina Kamel (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research) Martin K. Obrist (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Thibault Lachat (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL)

Mechanical Implementation of a Variable-Stiffness Actuator for a Softly Strummed Ukulele

October 11, 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2016 Austin B. Lawrence (Disney Research) Alex N. Alspach (Disney Research) Darrin C. Bentivegna (Disney Research)

Dynamic Skin Deformation SimulationUsing Musculoskeletal Model and Soft Tissue Dynamics

October 11, 2016 Pacific Graphics 2016 Akihiko Murai (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) Q Youn Hong (Carnegie Mellon University Katsu Yamane (Disney Research) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research)

Task-based Limb Optimization for Legged Robots

October 11, 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2016 Sehoon Ha (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Carnegie Mellon University Alex Alspach (Disney Research) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)

Programmable Animation Texturing using Motion Stamps

October 11, 2016 Pacific Graphics 2016 Antoine Milliez (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Martin Guay (Disney Research) Marie-Paule Cani (Inria Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Reduced Aggregate Scattering Operators for Path Tracing

October 11, 2016 Pacific Graphics 2016 Adrian Blumer (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Jan Novak (Disney Research) Ralf Habel (Disney Research) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (University of Montreal) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research/Dartmouth College)

Pixel History Linear Models for Real-Time Temporal Filtering

October 11, 2016 Pacific Graphics 2016 Jose A. Iglesias-Guitian (Disney Research) Bochang Moon (Disney Research) Charalampos Koniaris (Disney Research) Eric Smolikowski (Walt Disney Imagineering) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Balancing 3D Models with Movable Masses

October 10, 2016 International Workshop on Vision Modeling and Visualization (VMV) 2016 Romain Prevost (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Moritz Baecher (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth College) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)

Suggesting Sounds for Images from Video Collections

October 8, 2016 ECCV Workshop (Computer Vision for Audio-Visual Media) 2016 Matthias Soler (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Jean-Charles Bazin (Disney Research) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Deep Static and Dynamic Level Analysis: A Study on Infinite Mario

October 8, 2016 Experimental AI in Games Workshop 2016 Matthew Guzdial (Disney Research/Georgia Institute of Technology) Nathan Sturtevant (University of Denver) Boyang Albert Li (Disney Research)

Circuit Model for Resonant Cavity Mode Enabled Wireless Power Transfer

October 4, 2016 The European Microwave Conference 2016 Mohsen Shahmohammadi (Disney Research) Matt Chabalko (Disney Research) Alanson Sample (Disney Research)

Spatio-Temporal Point Path Analysis and Optimization of a Galvanoscopic Scanning Laser Projector

October 1, 2016 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ( Volume: 22, Issue: 11, Nov. 2016 ) Simon Willi (Disney Research) Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research)

Time-Multiplexed Projection System with Improved Spatial Resolution

September 29, 2016 Journal of the Society for Information Display 2016 Hagen Seifert (Disney Research) Nicola Ranieri (ETH Zurich) Quinn Smithwick (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

A Switched Emissive Transparent Display with Controllable per-pixel Opacity

September 29, 2016 Society for Information Display (SID) 2016 Quinn Smithwick (Disney Research)

Real-Time Temporally Coherent Local HDR Tone Mapping

September 25, 2016 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2016 Simone Croci (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Nikolce Stefanoski (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

PLOTSHOT: Generating Discourse-constrained Stories around Photos

September 19, 2016 The Twelfth Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 2016 Rogelio Cardona-Rivera (Disney Research/North Carolina State University) Boyang Albert Li (Disney Research)

Globally Continuous and Non-Markovian Activity Analysis from Videos

September 15, 2016 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2016 He Wang (Disney Research) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research)

Phase-Based Modification Transfer for Video

September 15, 2016 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2016 Simone Meyer (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

An Acoustic Analysis of Child-Child and Child-Robot Interactions for Understanding Engagement during Speech-Controlled Computer Games

September 8, 2016 Interspeech 2016 Theodora Chaspari (Disney Research/University of Southern California) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research)

G-g-go! Juuump! Online Performance of a Multi-keyword Spotter in a Real-time game

September 6, 2016 WOCCI 2016 Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research) Nikolas Wolfe (Disney Research) André Pereira (Disney Research)

The Role of Phonological Processes and Acoustic Confusability in Phone Errors in Children’s ASR

September 6, 2016 WOCCI 2016 Eva Fringi (Disney Research/University of Birmingham) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research) Martin Russell (Disney Research/University of Birmingham)

Turn-taking, Children, and the Unpredictability of Fun

September 1, 2016 AI Magazine 2016 Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research)

Walk the Talk: Coordinating Gesture with Locomotion for Conversational Characters

August 31, 2016 Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 2016 Yingying Wang (University of California, Davis)Kerstin Ruhland (Trinity College Dublin) Rachel McDonnell (Trinity College Dublin) Michael Neff (University of California, Davis) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research/Trinity College Dublin)

Imitating Human Movement with Teleoperated Robotic Head

August 26, 2016 International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (2016) Priyanshu Agarwal (Disney Research/University of Texas) Samer Al Moubayed (Disney Research) Alexander Alspach (Disney Research)Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Elizabeth J. Carter (Disney Research) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)

Maintaining Awareness of the Focus of Attention of a Conversation: A Robot-Centric Reinforcement Learning Approach

August 26, 2016 International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (2016) Marynel V´azquez (Carnegie Mellon University) Aaron Steinfeld (Carnegie Mellon University) Scott E. Hudson (DisneyResearch|Studios/Carnegie Mellon University)

Study of Children’s Hugging for Interactive Robot Design

August 26, 2016 International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) 2016 Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Alexander Alspach (Disney Research) Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research) 

Estimation of Children’s Physical Characteristics from their Voices

August 9, 2016 Interspeech 2016 Jill Lehman (Disney Research) Rita Singh (Disney Research)

Interactive High-Quality Green-Screen Keying via Color Unmixing

September 22, 2016 ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2016 Yagiz Aksoy (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Marc Pollefeys (ETH Zurich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Multiplicative Representation for Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction

August 7, 2016 The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2016 Yi Luan (Disney Research/University of Washington) Yangfeng Ji (Georgia Institute of Technology) Hannaneh Hajishirzi (University of Washington) Boyang Li (Disney Research)

FrankenFolk: Distinctiveness and Attractiveness of Voice and Motion

July 29, 2016 ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (ACM TAP) 2016 Jan Ondrej (Disney Research) Cathy Ennis (Dublin Institute of Technology) Niamh Merriman (Disney Research) Carol O’Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin)

User, Metric, and Computational Evaluation of Foveated Rendering Methods

July 29, 2016 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2016 Nicholas Swafford (University of Bath) Jose A. Iglesias-Guitian (Disney Research) Charalampos Koniaris (Disney Research) Bochang Moon (Disney Research) Darren Cosker (Bath University) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Automultiscopic displays based on orbital angular momentum of light

July 20, 2016 Journal of Optics 2016 Li Xuefeng (University of Cambridge) Jiaqi Chu (University of Cambridge) Quinn Smithwick (Disney Research) Daping Chu (University of Cambridge)

Anatomically-Constrained Local Deformation Model for Monocular Face Capture

July 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Chenglei Wu (ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Lightweight Eye Capture Using a Parametric Model

July 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Pascal Berard (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

CANVAS: Computer-Assisted Narrative Animation Synthesis

July 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2016 Mubbasir Kapadia (Disney Research/Rutgers University) Seth Frey (Disney Research/Dartmouth College) Alexander Shoulson (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Real-time Skeletal Skinning with Optimized Centers of Rotation

July 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Binh Huy Le (Disney Research) Jessica K. Hodgins (Disney Research)

Computational Thermoforming

July 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Christian Schüller (ETH Zurich) Daniele Panozzo (ETH Zurich) Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research) Henning Zimmer (Disney Research) Evgeni Sorkine (ETH Zurich) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)

Adaptive Polynomial Rendering

July 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Bochang Moon (Disney Research) Steven McDonagh (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research/Edinburgh Napier University) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

Acoustic Voxels: Computational Optimization of Modular Acoustic Filters

July 11, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Dingzeyu Li(Columbia University) David Levin (Disney Research) Wojciech Matusik (MIT CSAIL) Changxi Zheng (Columbia University)

A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting

July 10, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 James McCann (Disney Research) Lea Albaugh (Disney Research)Vidya Narayanan (Disney Research) April Grow (Disney Research/UC Santa Cruz) Wojciech Matusik (Massacusetts Institute of Technology) Jen Mankoff (Carnegie Mellon University) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research)

Designing Structurally-Sound Ornamental Curve Networks

July 4, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Jonas Zehnder (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Carnegie Mellon University) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research)

A Benchmark Dataset and Evaluation Methodology for Video Object Segmentation

June 27, 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016 Federico Perazzi (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Jordi Pont (ETH Zurich) Brian McWilliams (Disney Research)Luc van Gool (ETH Zurich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Bilateral Space Video Segmentation

June 27, 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016 Nicolas Märki (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Federico Perazzi (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Oliver Wang (Adobe Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Harnessing Object and Scene Semantics for Large-Scale Video Understanding

June 27, 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016 Zuxuan Wu (Fudan University) Yanwei Fu (Disney Research) Yu-Gang Jiang (Fudan University) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research)

Learning Activity Progression in LSTMs for Activity Detection and Early Detection

June 27, 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016 Shugao Ma (Boston University) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) Stan Sclaroff (Boston University)

June 24, 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016 Shugao Ma (Boston University)Leonid Sigal (DisneyResearch)Stan Sclaroff (Boston University)

June 24, 2016 Accepted at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016 Zuxuan Wu (Fudan University) Yanwei Fu (Disney Research) Yu-Gang Jiang (Fudan University) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research)

Completed Semi-supervised Vocabulary-informed Learning

June 24, 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016 Yanwei Fu (Disney Research) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research)

Learning Online Smooth Predictors for Realtime Camera Planning using Recurrent Decision Trees

June 24, 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2016 Jianhui Chen (University of British Columbia) Hoang M. Le (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) James J. Little (University of British Columbia)

Nonlinearly Weighted First-order Regression for Denoising Monte Carlo Renderings

June 22, 2016 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2016 Benedikt Bitterli (Disney Research)Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research)Bochang Moon (Disney Research)Jose A. Iglesias-Guitian (Disney Research)David Adler (Walt Disney Animation Studios)Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research/Edinburgh Napier University)Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth College)Jan Novak (Disney Research)

Designing Animated Characters for Children of Different Ages

June 21, 2016 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2016 Elizabeth J. Carter (Disney Research) Moshe Mahler (Disney Research) Maryyann Landlord (Disney Research) Kyna McIntosh (Disney Research) Jessica K. Hodgins (Disney Research)

The Robot Who Knew Too Much: Toward Understanding the Privacy/Personalization Trade-off in Child-Robot Conversation

June 21, 2016 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) 2016 Iolanda Leite (Disney Research) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research)

Stenciling: Designing Structurally-Sound Surfaces with Decorative Patterns

June 20, 2016 Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2016 Christian Schumacher (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Smooth Imitation Learning for Online Sequence Prediction

June 19, 2016 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2016 Hoang M. Le (California Institute of Technology) Andrew Kang (California Institute of Technology) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research)

Design of a Hopping Mechanism Using a Voice Coil: Linear Elastic Actuator in Parallel (LEAP)

May 16, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016 Zachary Batts (Disney Research) Joohyung Kim (Disney Research) Katsu Yamane (Disney Research)

A Hybrid Hydrostatic Transmission and Human-Safe Haptic Telepresence Robot

May 16, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016 John P. Whitney (Northeastern University) Tianyao Chen (The Catholic University of America) John Mars (Disney Research) Jessica K. Hodgins (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University)

DefSense: Computational Design of Customized Deformable Input Devices

May 7, 2016 CHI Interactivity 2016 Moritz Baecher (Disney Research) Benjamin Hepp (ETH Zurich) Fabrizio Pece (ETH Zurich) Paul Kry (McGill University) Bernd Bickel (IST (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Otmar Hilliges (ETH Zurich)

RapID: A Framework for Fabricating Low-Latency Interactive Objects with RFID Tags

May 7, 2016 CHI Interactivity 2016 Andrew Spielberg (Disney Research/Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Alanson Sample (Disney Research) Scott E. Hudson (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Jennifer Mankoff (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) James McCann (Disney Research) 

PaperID: A Technique for Drawing Functional Battery-Free Wireless Interfaces on Paper

May 7, 2016 CHI Interactivity 2016 Hanchuan Li (Disney Research/University of Washington Seattle) Eric Brockmeyer (Disney Research) Elizabeth J. Carter (Disney Research) Josh Fromm (University of Washington Seattle) Scott E. Hudson (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Shwetak N. Patel (University of Washington Seattle) Alanson Sample (Disney Research)

EM-ID: Tag-less Identification of Electrical Devices via Electromagnetic Emissions

May 3, 2016 IEEE International Conference on RFID 2016 Alanson P. Sample (Disney Research) Chouchang Yang (Disney Research)

High-Q and Over-Coupled Tuning for Near-Field RFID Systems

May 3, 2016 IEEE International Conference on RFID 2016 Mohsen Shahmohammadi (Disney Research) Matt Chabalko (Disney Research) Alanson P. Sample (Disney Research)

An Energy-interference-free Hardware-Software Debugger for Intermittent Energy-harvesting Systems

April 2, 2016 International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2016 Alexei Colin (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Graham Harvey (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Brandon Lucia (Carnegie Mellon University) Alanson Sample (Disney Research)

Large-Scale Painting of Photographs by Interactive Optimization

April 1, 2016 Computers & Graphics (2016) Romain Prevost (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Alec Jacobson (ETH Zurich/Columbia University) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research/Dartmouth College) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)

Predicting Movie Ratings from Audience Behaviors

March 24, 2016 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Rajitha Navarathna (Disney Research/Queensland University of Technology) Patrick Lucey (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Elizabeth Carter (Carnegie Mellon University) Sridha Sridharan (Queensland University of Technology) Iain Matthews (Disney Research)

A coarse integral holography approach for real 3D colour video display

March 17, 2016 Optics Express 2016 Jhen-Si Chen (University of Cambridge) Quinn Smithwick (Disney Research) Daping Chu (University of Cambridge)

Underwater 3D Capture using a Low-Cost Commercial Depth Camera

March 7, 2016 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2016 Sundara Tejaswi Digumarti (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Aparna Taneja (Disney Research) Amber Thomas (Walt Disney World) Gaurav Chaurasia (Disney Research) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Assessing Tracking Performance in Complex Scenarios using Mean Time Between Failures

March 7, 2016 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2016 Peter Carr (Disney Research) Robert T. Collins (The Pennsylvania State University)

Person Re-identification using Deformable Patch Metric Learning

March 7, 2016 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2016 Slawomir Bak (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research)

Chalkboarding: A New Spatiotemporal Query Paradigm for Sports Play Retrieval

March 7, 2016 Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2016 Long Sha (Queensland University of Technology) Patrick Lucey (Disney Research) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Charlie Rohlf (STATS LLC) Iain Matthews (Disney Research)

Experimental Characterization of 802.11ac Indoor Performance and Fairness

October 3, 2016 WiNTECH – International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization 2016 Lito Kriara (Disney Research) Edgar Costa Molero (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

Trending Paths: A Metric for Evaluating Crowd Simulation

February 26, 2016 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) 2016 He Wang (Disney Research) Jan Ondrej (Disney Research) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research)

Assumed Density Filtering Methods for Scalable Learning of Bayesian Neural Networks

February 12, 2016 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2016 Soumya Ghosh (Disney Research) Francesco Marie Delle Fave (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)

Exploiting View-Specific Appearance Similarities Across Classes for Zero-shot Pose Prediction: A Metric Learning Approach

February 12, 2016 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2016 Alina Kuznetsova (Leibniz University Hannover) Sung Ju Hwang (UNIST) Bodo Rosenhahn (Leibniz University Hannover) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research)

Scalable Control System for Bluetooth Mobile Devices

January 20, 2016 IEEE/IFIP Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS) 2016 Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research) Lukas Kuster (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

Automatic Multiview Synthesis – Towards a Mobile System on a Chip

December 13, 2015 International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 2015 Michael Schaffner (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Frank Gürkaynak (ETH Zurich) Hubert Kaeslin (ETH Zurich) Luca Benini (ETH Zurich/Università di Bologna) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Smooth Imitation Learning

December 12, 2015 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2015 Hoang M. Le (California Institute of Technology) Yisong Yue (California Institute of Technology) Peter Carr (Disney Research)

Fully Connected Object Proposals For Video Segmentation

December 11, 2015 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2015 Federico Perazzi (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

FaceDirector: Continuous Control of Facial Performance in Video

December 11, 2015 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2015 Charles Malleson (Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, UK) Jean-Charles Bazin (Disney Research) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Adrian Hilton (Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, UK) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Photogeometric Scene Flow for High-Detail Dynamic 3D Reconstruction

December 11, 2015 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2015 Paulo F. U. Gotardo (Disney Research) Tomas Simon (Carnegie Mellon University) Yaser Sheikh (Carnegie Mellon University) Iain Matthews (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University)

Real-time Variable Rigidity Texture Mapping

November 24, 2015 Conference for Visual Media Production (CVMP) 2015 Charalampos Koniaris (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Darren Cosker (Bath University)

Guided Ecological Simulation For Artistic Editing of Plant Distributions In Natural Scenes

November 19, 2015 Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques 2015 Gwyneth Bradbury (University College London) Kartic Subr (Disney Research) Charalampos Koniaris (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Tim Weyrich (Disney Research)

Fin Textures for Real-Time Painterly Aesthetics

November 16, 2015 Motion in Games 2015 Nicolas Imhof (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Antoine Milliez (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Flurin Jenal (ZHdK/Game Expressions!) René Bauer (ZHdK) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Towards an Accessible Interface for Story World Building

November 14, 2015 8th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies 2015 Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Andrea Schuepfer (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Toward Better Understanding of Engagement in Multiparty Spoken Interaction with Children

November 9, 2015 ICMI 2015 Samer Al Moubayed (Disney Research) Jill Fain Lehman (Disney Research)

AutoConnect: Computational Design of 3D-Printable Connectors

November 4, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Yuki Koyama (Disney Research/The University of Tokyo) Shinjiro Sueda (Disney Research/Cal Poly) Emma Steinhardt (Disney Research) Takeo Igarashi (The University of Tokyo) Ariel Shamir (Disney Research/IDC Herzliya) Wojciech Matusik (MIT)

Interactive Design of 3D-Printable Robotic Creatures

November 4, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Vittorio Megaro (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research)Maurizio Nitti (Disney Research) Otmar Hilliges (ETH Zurich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Stelian Coros (Carnegie Mellon University)

Interactive Surface Design with Interlocking Elements

November 4, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Melina Skouras (Disney Research/ETH Zurich/MIT CSAIL) Stelian Coros (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Eitan Grinspun (Columbia University) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research)

Smoothed Aggregation Multigrid for Cloth Simulation

November 4, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Rasmus Tamstorf (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Toby Jones (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Stephen F. McCormick (University of Colorado)

Augmented Creativity- Bridging the Real and Virtual Worlds to Enhance Creative Play

November 2, 2015 Symposium On Mobile Graphics And Interactive Applications 2015 Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Mattia Ryffel (Disney Research) Stephane Magnenat (Disney Research) Alessia Marra (Disney Research) Maurizio Nitti (Disney Research) Mubbasir Kapadia (Rutgers University) Gioacchino Noris (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Dispersion-based Color Projection using Masked Prisms

October 7, 2015 Pacific Graphics 2015 Rafael Hostettler (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Ralf Habel (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research/Darthmouth College)

Online View Sampling for Estimating Depth from Light Fields

September 27, 2015 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2015 Changil Kim (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Kartic Subr (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Robust, Error Tolerant Photometric Projector Compensation

September 14, 2015 Transactions on Image Processing 2015 Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research) Daisuke Iwai (Osaka University)

Sackcloth or Silk? The Impact of Appearance vs Dynamics on the Perception of Animated Cloth

September 7, 2015 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2015 Carlos Aliaga (Walt Disney Animation Studios/Universidad de Zaragoza) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research) Diego Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza) Rasmus Tamstorf (Walt Disney Animation Studios)

Computational Design of Walking Automata

August 7, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2015 Gaurav Bharaj (Harvard SEAS) Stelian Coros (Carnegie Mellon University ) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) James Tompkin (Harvard SEAS) Bernd Bickel (IST Austria) Hanspeter Pfister (Harvard SEAS)

Multi-Scale Modeling and Rendering of Granular Materials

July 27, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Johannes Meng (Disney Research/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Marios Papas (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Ralf Habel (Disney Research) Carsten Dachsbacher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Steve Marschner (Cornell University) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research/Dartmouth College)

OmniAD: Data-driven Omni-directional Aerodynamics

July 27, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Tobias Martin (ETH Zurich) Nobuyuki Umetani (Disney Research) Bernd Bickel (IST Austria)

Microstructures to Control Elasticity in 3D Printing

July 27, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Christian Schumacher (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research/IST Austria) Jan Rys (ETH Zurich) Steve Marschner (Cornell University) Chiara Daraio (ETH Zurich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Real-Time High-Fidelity Facial Performance Capture

July 27, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Chen Cao (Disney Research/Zhejiang University) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Kun Zhou (Zhejiang University) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Design and Fabrication of Flexible Rod Meshes

July 27, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Jesús Rodríguez (URJC Madrid) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research/IST Austria) José Canabal (URJC Madrid) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Miguel OtaduyJ (URJC Madrid)

Sampling Based Scene-Space Video Processing

July 27, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Felix Klose (Disney Research/TU Braunschweig) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Jean-Charles Bazin (Disney Research) Marcus Magnor (TU Braunschweig) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Detailed Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction of Eyelids

July 27, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Amit Bermano (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Yeara Kozlov (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research/IST Austria) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Adaptive Rendering with Linear Predictions

July 27, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Bochang Moon (Disney Research) Jose A. Iglesias-Guitian (Disney Research) Sung-Eui Yoon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Stereo from Shading

June 24, 2015 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2015 Alexandre Chapiro (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Path-space Motion Estimation and Decomposition for Robust Animation Filtering

June 24, 2015 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2015 Henning Zimmer (Disney Research) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Wenzel Jakob (ETH Zurich) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) David Adler (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings

July 23, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2015 Stephane Magnenat (Disney Research) Dat Tien Ngo (EPF Lausanne) Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Mattia Ryffel (Disney Research) Chino Noris (Disney Research) Gerhard Röthlin (Disney Research) Alessia Marra (Disney Research) Maurizio Nitti (Disney Research) Pascal Fua (EPF Lausanne) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research)

Enhancing Robot Programming With Visual Feedback and Augmented Reality

July 4, 2015 Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 2015 Stephane Magnenat (Disney Research) Morderchai Ben-Ari (Weizmann Institute of Science) Severin Klinger (ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Portal-Masked Environment Map Sampling

June 24, 2015 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2015 Benedikt Bitterli (Disney Research/Walt Disney Animation Studios) Jan Novak (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

Semi-automatic video object segmentation by advanced manipulation of segmentation hierarchies

June 10, 2015 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing 2015 Jordi Pont -Tuset (Disney Research) Miquel Farre (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

A Methodological Approach to User Evaluation and Assessment of a Virtual Environment Hangout

June 10, 2015 7th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment 2015 Marco Pasin (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella) Antonella Frisiello (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella) Julie Wall (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Phase-Based Frame Interpolation for Video

June 8, 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015 Simone Meyer (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Henning Zimmer (Disney Research) Max Grosse (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Scalable Structure from Motion for Densely Sampled Videos

June 8, 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015 Benjamin Resch (Disney Research/Tübingen University) Hendrik Lensch (Tübingen University)) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Marc Pollefeys (ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Space-Time Tree Ensemble for Action Recognition

June 7, 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2015 Shugao Ma (Boston University) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) Stan Sclaroff (Boston University)

A Computational Model for Perception of Stereoscopic Window Violations

May 26, 2015 International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2015) 2015 Steven Poulakos (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Rafael Monroy (Fraunhofer IGD) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

Antagonistic Muscle based Robot Control for Physical Interactions

May 26, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2015 Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee (Disney Research) Günter Niemeyer (Disney Research)

High-Performance Robotic Muscles from Conductive Nylon Sewing Thread

May 26, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2015 Michael Yip (Disney Research) Günter Niemeyer (Disney Research)

Scalable Asynchronous Contact Mechanics with Charm++

May 25, 2015 IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2015 Xiang Ni (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Laxmikant V. Kale (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Rasmus Tamstorf (Walt Disney Animation Studios)

DTN-enabled Infostation and Cinema-in-a-Backpack

May 18, 2015 Interdisciplinary Workshop on Do-It-Yourself Networking 2015 Adriano Galati (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Maria Olivares (Disney Research) Theodoros Bourchas (Disney Research) 

Eye-Tracktive: Measuring Attention to Body Parts When Judging Human Motions

May 8, 2015 Eurographics 2015 Cathy Ennis (Trinity College Dublin) Ludovic Hoyet (Trinity College Dublin) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research/Trinity College Dublin)

Recent Advances in Facial Appearance Capture

May 8, 2015 Eurographics 2015 Oliver Klehm (MPI Informatik) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Marios Papas (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Christophe Hery (Pixar) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Recent Advances in Adaptive Sampling and Reconstruction for Monte Carlo Rendering

May 8, 2015 Eurographics 2015 Matthias Zwicker (University of Bern) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Jaakko Lehtinen (Aalto University) Bochang Moon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Ravi Ramamoorthi (University of California, San Diego) Fabrice Rousselle (Disney Research) Pradeep Sen (University of California, Santa Barbara) Cyril Soler (Inria Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) Sung-Eui Yoon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Key-frame Based Spatiotemporal Scribble Propagation

May 4, 2015 WICED 2015 Pelin Dogan (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Nikolce Stefanoski (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Panoramic Video from Unstructured Camera Arrays

May 2, 2015 Eurographics 2015 Federico Perazzi (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Henning Zimmer (Disney Research) Peter Kaufmann (Disney Research )Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Scott Watson (Walt Disney Imagineering) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

Computer-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Narratives

February 27, 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) 2015 Mubbasir Kapadia (Disney Research/Rutgers University) Jessica Falk (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Marcel Marti (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

The Boundary Forest algorithm for online supervised and unsupervised learning

January 25, 2015 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2015 Charles Mathy (Disney Research) Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Jose Bento Ayres Pereira (Disney Research) Jonathan Rosenthal (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)

Proximal operators for multi-agent path planning

January 25, 2015 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2015 Jose Bento (Disney Research) Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Charles Mathy (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)

Extending the Performance of Human Classifiers using a Viewpoint Specific Approach

January 6, 2015 IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2015 Endri Dibra (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Jerome Maye (ETH Zurich) Olga Diamanti (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Rresearch)

From Sound to Sight: Using Audio Processing to enable Visible Light Communication

December 8, 2014 Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications 2014 Stefan Schmid (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Daniel Schwyn (Disney Research/ETH Joint B.Sc.) Kaan Aksit (Disney Research) Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Memory Efficient Stereoscopy from Light Fields

December 8, 2014 AD International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2014 Changil Kim (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Ulrich Müller (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Henning Zimmer (Disney Research) Yael Pritch (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich))

A Vectorial Framework for Ray Traced Diffusion Curves

December 1, 2014 Computer Graphics Forum Journal Romain Prevost (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)

A Framework for Transient Rendering

November 19, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Adrián Jarabo (Universidad de Zaragoza) Julio Marco (Universidad de Zaragoza) Adolfo Muñoz (Universidad de Zaragoza) Raul Buisan (Universidad de Zaragoza) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Diego Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza)

High-Quality Capture of Eyes

November 19, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Pascal Berard (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Maurizio Nitti (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Generating and Ranking Diverse Multi-Character Interactions

November 19, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Jungdam Won (Disney Research/Seoul National University) Kyungho Lee (Disney Research/Seoul National University) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research) Jehee Lee (Disney Research/Seoul National University)

Temporally Coherent Local Tone Mapping of HDR Video

November 19, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Nikolce Stefanoski (Disney Research) Simone Croci (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Residual Ratio Tracking for Estimating Attenuation in Participating Media

November 19, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Jan Novak (Disney Research/Walt Disney Animation Studios) Andrew Selle (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

Frequency-Based Creation and Editing of Virtual Terrain

November 13, 2014 Conference for Visual Media Production (CVMP) 2014 Gwyneth Bradbury (University College London) Il Choi (University College London) Cristina Amati (University College London) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Tim Weyrich (University College London)

Influence of Animated Reality Mixing Techniques on User Experience

November 6, 2014 Motion in Games 2014 Fabio Zünd (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Marcel Lancelle (ETH Zurich) Mattia Ryffel (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zürich)

High-Speed Object Tracking Using an Asynchronous Temporal Contrast Sensor

October 8, 2014 International Workshop on Vision Modeling and Visualization (VMV) 2014 Daniel Saner (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research)Yael Pritch (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Continuous Synchronization for LED-to-LED Visible Light Communication Networks

September 17, 2014 International Workshop on Optical Wireless (IWOW) 2014 Stefan Schmid (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

Using Consumer LED Light Bulbs for Low-Cost Visible Light Communication Systems

September 7, 2014 Workshop on Visible Light Communication Systems (VLCS) 2014 Stefan Schmid (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Josef Ziegler (Disney Research/ETH Joint Semester Thesis) Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

System Architecture for Delay Tolerant Media Distribution for Rural South Africa

September 7, 2014 ACM WiNTECH Workshop 2014 Adriano Galati (Disney Research) Theodoros Bourchas (Disney Research) Sandra Siby (Disney Research/ETH Joint Semester Thesis) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Contiki80211: An IEEE 802.11 Radio Link Layer for the Contiki OS

August 20, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS) 2014 Ioannis Glaropoulos (Disney Research) Vladimir Vukadinovic (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Hierarchical Motion Brushes for Animation Instancing

August 8, 2014 Non-photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR) 2014 Antoine Milliez (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Chino Noris (Disney Research) Ilya Baran (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Marie-Paule Cani (Inria Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) Maurizio Nitti (Disney Research) Alessia Marra (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Alternating attention in continuous stereoscopic depth

August 8, 2014 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (ACM APGV) 2014 Steven Poulakos (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Gerhard Röthlin (Disney Research) Adrian Schwaninger (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Perceptual Evaluation of Cardboarding in 3D Content Visualization

August 8, 2014 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (ACM APGV) 2014 Alexandre Chapiro (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Olga Diamanti (ETH Zurich) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Theory and Analysis of Transient Rendering

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Adrian Jarabo (Universidad de Zaragoza) Julio Marco (Universidad de Zaragoza) Adolfo Munoz (Universidad de Zaragoza) Raul Buisan (Universidad de Zaragoza) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Diego Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Boxelization: Folding 3D Objects Into Boxes

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Yahan Zhou (Disney Research) Shinjiro Sueda (Disney Research) Wojciech Matusik (MIT CSAIL) Arik Shamir (Disney Research/The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya)

VideoSnapping: Interactive Synchronization of Multiple Videos

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Christopher Schroers (Disney Research) Henning Zimmer (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Rigid Stabilization of Facial Expressions

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Derek Bradley (Disney Research)

Subspace Clothing Simulation Using Adaptive Bases

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Fabian Hahn (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Forrester Cole (Pixar Animation Studios) Mark Meyer (Pixar Animation Studios) Tony DeRose (Pixar Animation Studios) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Unifying Points, Beams, and Paths in Volumetric Light Transport Simulation

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Jaroslav Křivánek (Charles University, Prague) Iliyan Georgiev (Light Transportation Ltd.) Toshiya Hachisuka (Aarhus University) Petr Vévoda (Charles University, Prague) Martin Šik (Charles University, Prague) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Université de Montréal) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

Capturing and Stylizing Hair for 3D Fabrication

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Jose Ignacio Echevarria (Universidad de Zaragoza) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Diego Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia for Spinnable Objects

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Moritz Bächer (Disney Research) Emily Whiting (ETH Zurich) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research)

Designing Inflatable Structures

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Melina Skouras (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Peter Kaufmann(Disney Research) Akash Garg (Columbia University) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Eitan Grinspun (Columbia University) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Adaptive Nonlinearity for Collisions in Complex Rod Assemblies

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Danny M. Kaufman (Adobe/Columbia University) Rasmus Tamstorf (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Breannan Smith (Columbia University) Jean-Marie Aubry (Weta Digital) Eitan Grinspun (Columbia University)

Automatic Editing of Footage from Multiple Social Cameras

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Ido Arev (Disney Research/The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) Hyun Soo Park (Carnegie Mellon University) Yaser Sheikh (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Arik Shamir (Disney Research/The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya)

(In)visible Light Communication: Combining Illumination and Communication

July 27, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies 2014 Stefan Schmid (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Josef Ziegler (Disney Research/ETH Joint Semester Thesis) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich) Manuela Hitz (Disney Research) Afroditi Psarra (Disney Research) Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

ChaCra: An Interactive Design System for Rapid Character Crafting

July 21, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2014 Vittorio Megaro (ETH Zurich) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Damien Gauge (ETH Zurich) Eitan Grinspun (Columbia University) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Interactive Design of Modular Tensegrity Characters

July 21, 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2014 Damien Gauge (ETH Zurich) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Sandro Mani (ETH Zurich) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research)

Concurrent Optimization of Mechanical Design and Locomotion Control of a Legged Robot

July 20, 2014 CLAWAR (Climbing and Walking Robots) 2014 Krishnamanaswi Digumarti (Disney Research) Christian Gehring (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Je Min Hwangbo (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)

Enhanced Power Saving Mode for Low-Latency Communication in Multi-Hop 802.11 Networks

July 1, 2014 Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (2014) Vladimir Vukadinovic (Disney Research) Ioannis Glaropoulos (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Error analysis of estimators that use combinations of stochastic sampling strategies for direct illumination

June 25, 2014 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2014 Kartic Subr (Disney Research) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Jan Kautz (University City College London) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

Jointly Summarizing Large-Scale Web Images and Videos for the Storyline Reconstruction

June 23, 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2014 Gunhee Kim (Disney Research) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University)

An Approximate Computing Technique for Reducing the Complexity of a Direct-Solver for Sparse Linear Systems in Real-Time Video Processing

June 1, 2014 Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2014 Michael Schaffner (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Frank K. Gürkaynak (ETH Zurich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Hubert Kaesliny (ETH Zurich) Luca Beniniy (ETH Zurich)

Towards Automatic Discovery of Agile Gaits for Quadrupedal Robots

May 31, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2014 Christian Gehring (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Marco Hutter (ETH Zurich) Michael Bloesch (ETH Zurich) Peter Fankhauser (ETH Zurich) Markus Hoepflinger (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)

Perceptual Evaluation of Motion Editing for Realistic Throwing Animations

May 31, 2014 ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (ACM TAP) Michele Vicovara (University of Padua) Ludovic Hoyet (Trinity College Dublin) Luigi Burigana (University of Padua) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research/Trinity College Dublin)

Scalable Methods to Integrate Task Knowledge with the Three-Weight Algorithm for Hybrid Cognitive Processing via Optimization

April 30, 2014 Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Journal 2014 Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Jose Bento Ayres Pereira (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)

Rapid Hologram Generation Utilising Layer-Based Approach and Graphic Rendering for Realistic 3D Image Reconstruction by Angular Tiling

April 8, 2014 Journal of Electronic Imaging 2014 Jhen-Si Chen (University of Cambridge) Daping Chu (University of Cambridge) Quinn Smithwick (Disney Research)

Optimizing Stereo-to-Multiview Conversion for Autostereoscopic Displays

April 7, 2014 Eurographics 2014 Alexandre Chapiro (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Tunç Aydın (Disney Research) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Matthias Zwicker (University of Bern) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

State of the Art in Artistic Editing of Appearance, Lighting, and Material

April 7, 2014 Eurographics 2014  Thorsten-Walther Schmidt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Fabio Pellacini (Sapienza University of Rome) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Carsten Dachsbacher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Wireless LAN in Paired Radio Spectrum with Downlink-Uplink Separation

April 6, 2014 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014 Stefan Schmid (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

Acoustic Data Transmission to Collaborating Smartphones – An Experimental Study

April 4, 2014 IEEE/IFIP Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS) 2014 Roman Frigg (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

Facial Performance Enhancement Using Dynamic Shape Space Analysis

March 1, 2014 ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2014 Amit Bermano (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Fabio Zund (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Ilya Baran (Disney Research) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich) Hanspeter Pfister (Disney Research/Harvard University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Survey of Texture Mapping Techniques for Representing and Rendering Volumetric Mesostructure

February 27, 2014 Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT) 2014 Charalampos Koniaris (University of Bath) Darren Cosker (University of Bath) Xiaosong Yang (University of Bournemouth) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research)

LCD Masks for Spatial Augmented Reality

February 3, 2014 SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) 2014 Quinn Smithwick (Disney Research) Daniel Reetz (Disney Research) Lanny Smoot (Disney Research)

Spatially-Varying Image Warping: Evaluations and VLSI Implementations

December 31, 2013 Springer VLSI-SoC Book Chapter 2013 Pierre Greisen (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Michael Schaffner (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Danny Luu (ETH Zurich) Val Mikos (ETH Zurich) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Frank Gürkaynak (ETH Zurich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

RFID Shakables: Pairing Radio-Frequency Identification Tags with the Help of Gesture Recognition

December 9, 2013 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2013 Lito Kriara (Disney Research) Matthew Alsup (Disney Research) Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research) Matthew Trotter(Disney Research) Joshua Griffin (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

A Message-Passing Algorithm for Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning

December 5, 2013 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2013 Jose Bento Ayres Pereira (Disney Research) Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Javier Alonso-Mora (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)

Local Signal Equalization for Correspondence Matching

December 2, 2013 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2013 Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research)

The Shading Probe: Fast Appearance Acquisition for Mobile AR

November 19, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Dan Andrei Calian (Disney Research) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Jan Kautz (University College London)

Methods for Integrating Knowledge with the Three-Weight Optimization Algorithm for Hybrid Cognitive Processing

November 15, 2013 AAAI Fall Symposium on Integrated Cognition 2013 Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Jose Bento (Disney Research) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)

Analyzing Temporal Metrics of Public Transportation for Designing Scalable Delay-Tolerant Networks

November 8, 2013 ACM Workshop on Performance (ACM PM2HW2N) 2013 Adriano Galati (Disney Research) Vladimir Vukadinovic (Disney Research) Maria Olivares (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Simulated motion blur does not improve player experience in racing game

November 6, 2013 Motion in Games 2013 Lavanya Sharan (MIT) Neo Zhe Han (Disney Research/ABC Television Group) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research/CMU)

Modeling and Estimation of Internal Friction in Cloth

November 1, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Eder Miguel (URJC Madrid) Rasmus Tamstorf (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Sara Schvartzman (URJC Madrid)Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research)Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Wojciech Matusik (Disney Research)Steve Marschner (Cornell University) Miguel Otaduy (URJC Madrid)

Joint Importance Sampling of Low-Order Volumetric Scattering

November 1, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Iliyan Georgiev (Disney Research)Jaroslav Křivánek (Charles University, Prague) Toshiya Hachisuka (Aarhus University) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

Evaluating the Distinctiveness and Attractiveness of Human Motions on Realistic Virtual Bodies

November 1, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Ludovic Hoyet (Trinity College Dublin) Kenneth Ryall (Disney Research/Trinity College Dublin) Katja Zibrek (Trinity College Dublin) Hwangpil Park (Seoul National University) Jehee Lee (Seoul National University) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Carol O’Sullivan (Disney Research/Trinity College Dublin/Seoul National University)

Augmenting Physical Avatars Using Projector Based Illumination

November 1, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Amit Bermano (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Phillipp Bruschweiler (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research) Daisuke Iwai (Osaka University) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

A Real-Time 720p Feature Extraction Core Based on Semantic Kernels Binarized

October 7, 2013 IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC) 2013 Michael Schaffner (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Pascal Hager (ETH Zurich) Lukas Cavigelli (ETH Zurich) Pierre Greisen (Disney Research) Frank Gürkaynak (ETH Zurich) Hubert Kaeslin (ETH Zurich)

Depth Estimation and Depth Enhancement by Diffusion of Depth Features

September 18, 2013 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2013 Nikolce Stefanoski (Disney Research) Can Bal (Disney Research) Manuel Lang (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Content-Aware Compression using Saliency-Driven Image Retargeting for Wireless Video

September 18, 2013 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2013 Fabio Zund (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Yael Pritch (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

MADmax: A 1080p Stereo-to-Multiview Rendering ASIC in 65nm CMOS based on Image Domain Warping

September 16, 2013 European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) 2013 Michael Schaffner (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Pierre Greisen (Disney Research) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Frank Gürkaynak (ETH Zurich) Hubert Kaeslin (ETH Zurich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Transfusive Weights for Content-Aware Image Manipulation

September 11, 2013 International Workshop on Vision Modeling and Visualization (VMV) 2013 Kaan Yücer (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Alec Jacobson (ETH Zurich) Alexander Hornung (Disney Research) Olga Sorkine (ETH Zurich)

Multi-Spectral Material Classification in Landscape Scenes Using Commodity Hardware

August 23, 2013 International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP) 2013 Gwyneth Bradbury (University College London) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Tim Weyrich (University College London)

Enhanced IEEE 802.11 Power Saving for Multi-Hop Toy-to-Toy Communication

August 22, 2013 IEEE iThings 2013 Ioannis Glaropoulos (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Vladimir Vukadinovic (Disney Research)

Evaluation and FPGA Implementation of Sparse Linear Solvers for Video Processing Applications

August 1, 2013 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) 2013 Pierre Greisen (Disney Research) Marian Runo (ETH Zurich)Patrice Guillet (ETH Zurich) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Hubert Kaeslin (ETH Zurich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

LED-to-LED Visible Light Communication Networks

August 1, 2013 ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc) 2013 Stefan Schmid (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

Joint Scalable Coding and Routing for 60 GHz Real-Time Live HD Video Streaming Applications

July 30, 2013 IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 2013 Joongheon Kim (University of Southern California) Yafei Tian (Beihang University) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Andreas F. Molisch (University of Southern California)

D-Tech Me: Fabricating 3D Figurines With Personalised

July 21, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Talks J. Rafael Tena (Disney Research) Moshe Mahler(Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Hengehin Yeh (Disney Research) Max Grosse (Disney Research) Iain Matthews (Disney Research)

Scene Reconstruction from High Spatio-Angular Resolution Light Fields

July 21, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Changil Kim (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Henning Zimmer (Disney Research) Yael Pritch (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Content-Adaptive Lenticular Prints

July 21, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 James Tompkin (University City College London) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Jan Kautz (University City College London) Wojciech Matusik (Disney Research)

Computational Design of Actuated Deformable Characters

July 21, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Melina Skouras (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Computational Design of Mechanical Characters

July 21, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Chino Noris (Disney Research) Shinjiro Sueda (Disney Research) Moira Forberg (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Wojciech Matusik (MIT CSAIL) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research)

Image-Based Reconstruction and Synthesis of Dense Foliage

July 21, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research/Université de Montréal) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Style and Abstraction in Portrait Sketching

July 21, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Itamar Berger (Disney Research/The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) Ariel Shamir (Disney Research/The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) Moshe Mahler (Disney Research) Elizabeth Carter (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University) Jessica Hodgins (Disney Research/Carnegie Mellon University)

Sketch-Based Generation and Editing of Quad Meshes

July 21, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Kenshi Takayama (ETH Zurich) Daniele Panozzo (ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)

Efficient Simulation of Secondary Motion in Rig-Space

July 19, 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2013 Fabian Hahn (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Discrete Bending Forces and Their Jacobians

July 18, 2013 Graphical Models 2013 Rasmus Tamstorf (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Eitan Grinspun (Columbia University)

Computational Sports Broadcasting: Automated Director Assistance for Live Sports

July 15, 2013 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2013 Christine Chen (ETH Zurich) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Peter Carr (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Practical Non-linear Photometric Projector Compensation

June 28, 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD/PROCAMS) 2013 Anselm Grundhöfer (Disney Research)

Megastereo: Constructing High-Resolution Stereo Panoramas

June 25, 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2013 Christian Richardt (Disney Research/Inria Sophia Antipolis)Yael Pritch (Disney Research) Henning Zimmer (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Poselet Key-framing: A Model for Human Activity Recognition

June 23, 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2013 Michalis Raptis (Disney Research) Leonid Sigal (Disney Research)

Photon Beam Diffusion: A Hybrid Monte Carlo Method for Subsurface Scattering

June 19, 2013 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2013 Ralf Habel (Disney Research) Per Christensen (Pixar Animation Studios) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

Comparing Foot Placement Strategies for Planar Bipedal Walking

June 10, 2013 Dynamic Walking 2013 Rick Cory (Disney Research)

Quality-Aware Coding and Relaying for 60 GHz Real-Time Wireless Video Broadcasting

June 9, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013 Joongheon Kim (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) Yafei Tian (Beihang University) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Andy Molisch (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

Efficient Image Resampling for Multiview Displays

May 27, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2013 Michael Schaffner (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Pierre Greisen (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Automatic View Synthesis by Image-Domain-Warping

May 23, 2013 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2013 Nikolce Stefanoski (Disney Research) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Manuel Lang (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Pierre Greisen (ETH Zurich) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

An Improved Three-Weight Message-Passing Algorithm

May 8, 2013 Arxiv.org 2013 Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research) Jose Bento (Disney Research) Veit Elser (Cornell University) Jonathan Yedidia (Disney Research)

DuctTake: Seam-Based Video Compositing

May 6, 2013 Eurographics 2013 Jan Rüegg (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Scalable Music: Automatic Music Retargeting and Synthesis

May 6, 2013 Eurographics 2013 Simon Wenner (ETH Zurich) Jean-Charles Bazin (ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Changil Kim (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Finite Element Image Warping

May 6, 2013 Eurographics 2013 Peter Kaufmann (Disney Research) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Collision Avoidance for Multiple Agents with Joint Utility Maximization

May 6, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2013 Javier Alonso-Mora (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Martin Rufli (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Control of Dynamic Gaits for a Quadrupedal Robot

May 6, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2013 Christian Gehring (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Marco Hutter (ETH Zurich) Michael Bloesch (ETH Zurich) Markus Hoepflinger (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)

Switching Dual Layer Display with Dynamic LCD Mask

April 1, 2013 SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) 2013 Quinn Smithwick (Disney Research) Mark Reichow (Walt Disney Imagineering)

Distinguishing Texture Edges from Object Boundaries in Video

January 12, 2013 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2013 Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Martina Dumcke (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

An LED-to-LED Visible Light Communication System with Software-Based Synchronization

December 3, 2012 IEEE Globecom 2012 Stefan Schmid (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Giorgio Corbellini (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research) Thomas Gross (ETH Zurich)

CAESAR: Carrier Sense-based Ranging in Off-the-Shelf 802.11 Wireless LAN

December 1, 2012 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2012 Domenico Giustiniano (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Efficient Rasterization for Edge-Based 3D Object Tracking on Mobile Devices

November 28, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Etan Kissling (ETH Zurich) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Thomas Oskam (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Practical Hessian-Based Error Control for Irradiance Caching

November 1, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Jorge Schwarzhaupt (University of California, San Diego) Henrik Wann Jensen (University of California, San Diego) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

The Magic Lens: Refractive Steganography

November 1, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Marios Papas (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Thomas Houit (ETH Zurich) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research/Université de Montréal) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

Speculative Parallel Asynchronous Contact Mechanics

November 1, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Samantha Ainsley (Columbia University) Etienne Vouga (Columbia University) Eitan Grinspun (Columbia University) Rasmus Tamstorf (Walt Disney Animation Studios)

Transfusive Image Manipulation

November 1, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Kaan Yucer (Disney Research/ETH Zurich Joint PhD) Alec Jacobson (ETH Zurich) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Olga Sorkine-Hornung (ETH Zurich)

Depth Image Based Compositing for Stereo 3D

October 15, 2012 3D Television Conference (3DTV-CON) 2012 Lars Schnyder (Disney Research) Manuel Lang (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Fast and Stable Color Balancing for Images and Augmented Reality

October 13, 2012 3D International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2012 Thomas Oskam (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Object and Animation Display with Multiple Aerial Vehicles

October 7, 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2012 Javier Alonso-Mora (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Marcel Schoch (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Andreas Breitenmoser (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Improved Reconstruction of Deforming Surfaces by Cancelling Ambient Occlusion

October 7, 2012 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2012 Thabo Beeler (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Henning Zimmer (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Image Quality vs Rate Optimized Coding of Warps for View Synthesis in 3D Video Applications

September 30, 2012 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2012 Nikolce Stefanoski (Disney Research) Manuel Lang (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Multi-Layered Automultiscopic Displays

September 12, 2012 Pacific Graphics 2012 Nicola Ranieri (ETH Zurich) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Quinn Smithwick (Disney Research) Daniel Reetz (Disney Research) Lanny Smoot (Disney Research) Wojciech Matusik (MIT CSAIL) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Coupled 3D Reconstruction of Sparse Facial Hair and Skin

August 5, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Thabo Beeler (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Chino Noris (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research) Steve Marschner (Disney Research/Cornell University) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Theory, Analysis and Applications of 2D Global Illumination

August 6, 2012 ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2012 Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research/University of California, San Diego) Volker Schönefeld (RWTH Aachen University) Leif Kobbelt (RWTH Aachen University) Henrik Wann Jensen (University of California, San Diego)

Physical Face Cloning

August 5, 2012 SIGGRAPH 2012 Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Peter Kaufmann (Disney Research) Melina Skouras (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Phil Jackson (Walt Disney Imagineering) Steve Marschner (Cornell University) Wojciech Matusik (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Virtual Ray Lights for Rendering Scenes with Participating Media

August 5, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Jan Novák (Disney Research/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research/Université de Montréal) Carsten Dachsbacher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

Rig-Space Physics

August 5, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Fabian Hahn (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Sebastian Martin (Disney Research) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Practical Temporal Consistency for Image-Based Graphics Applications

August 5, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Manuel Lang (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Deformable Objects Alive

August 5, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Sebastian Martin (Disney Research) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Christian Schumacher (ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Efficient Simulation of Example-Based Materials

July 29, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH – Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2012 Christian Schumacher (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Sebastian Martin (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Multi-Robot Formation Control via a Real-Time Drawing Interface

July 16, 2012 Field and Service Robots (FSR) 2012 Sandro Hauri (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Javier Alonso-Mora (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Andreas Breitenmoser (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Smart Scribbles for Sketch Segmentation

July 5, 2012 EU Computer Graphics Forum (EU CGF) 2012 Chino Noris (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Daniel Sykora (Czech Technical University in Prague) Ariel Shamir (The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia, Israel)Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Brian Whited (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Maryann Simmons (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research)

Progressive Virtual Beam Lights

July 4, 2012 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) 2012 Jan Novák (Disney Research/Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research/Université de Montréal) Carsten Dachsbacher (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

Algorithm and VLSI Architecture for Real-Time 1080p60 Video Retargeting

June 27, 2012 High Performance Graphics 2012 Pierre Greisen (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Manuel Lang (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Structure and Motion from Scene Registration

June 18, 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012 Tali Basha (Tel Aviv University) Shai Avidan (Tel Aviv University) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Wojciech Matusik (MIT CSAIL)

Cache-Efficient Graph Cuts on Structured Grids

June 18, 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012 Ondrej Jamriska (Czech Technical University, Prague) Daniel Sykora (Czech Technical University, Prague) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Saliency Filters: Contrast Based Filtering for Salient Region Detection

June 18, 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012 Federico Perazzi (Disney Research) Philip Krähenbühl (Stanford University) Yael Pritch (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research)

Impact of Human Mobility on Wireless Ad Hoc Networking in Entertainment Parks

June 6, 2012 Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks 2012 Vladimir Vukadinovic (Disney Research) Fabian Dreier (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Analysis and VLSI Implementation of EWA Rendering for Real-Time HD Video Applications

May 30, 2012 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) Pierre Greisen (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Michael Schaffner (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD)Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Marian Runo (ETH Zurich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Andreas Burg (EPF Lausanne) Hubert Kaeslin (ETH Zurich) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Performance of Collaborative GPS Localization in Pedestrian Ad Hoc Networks

March 15, 2012 ACM International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks (ACM MobiOpp) 2012 Vladimir Vukadinovic (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Reciprocal Collision Avoidance for Multiple Car-like Robots

May 14, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2012 Javier Alonso-Mora (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Andreas Breitenmoser (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich)

Iterative Image Warping

May 13, 2012 Eurographics 2012 Huw Bowles (Disney Interactive Studios) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Jeremy Moore (Disney Interactive Studios) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

NoRM: No-Reference Image Quality Metric for Realistic Image Synthesis

May 13, 2012 Eurographics 2012 Robert Herzog (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken) Martin Cadik (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken) Tunc Aydin (Disney Research/Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken) Kwawng In Kim (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken) Karol Myszkowski (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken) Hans-Peter Seidel (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken)

Manufacturing Layered Attenuators for Multiple Prescribed Shadow Images

May 13, 2012 Eurographics 2012 Ilya Baran (Disney Research) Philipp Keller (ETH Zurich) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Stelian Coros (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Computational Design of Rubber Balloons

May 13, 2012 Eurographics 2012 Melina Skouras (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

SHADOWPIX: Multiple Images from Self Shadowing

May 13, 2012 Eurographics 2012 Amit Bermano (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Ilya Baran (Disney Research) Marc Alexa (Disney Research/TU Berlin) Wojciech Matusik (Disney Research/MIT CSAIL)

Data-Driven Estimation of Cloth Simulation Models

May 13, 2012 Eurographics 2012 Eder Miguel (Disney Research/URJC Madrid) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Bernhard Thomaszewski (Disney Research)Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Wojciech Matusik (Disney Research/MIT CSAIL) Miguel Otaduy (URJC Madrid) Steve Marschner (Cornell University)

Image and Animation Display with Multiple Mobile Robots

May 9, 2012 International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) 2012 Javier Alonso-Mora (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Andreas Breitenmoser (ETH Zurich) Martin Rufli (ETH Zurich) Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research)

Delta Radiance Transfer

March 9, 2012 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (i3D) 2012 Bradford J. Loos (Disney Interactive Studios/University of Utah) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Peter-Pike Sloan (Disney Interactive Studios)

Physically-based Simulation of Rainbows

January 1, 2012 ACM Transactions On Graphics Iman Sadeghi (University of California, San Diego) Adolfo Muñoz (Universidad de Zaragoza) Philip Laven (Horley, UK) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Francisco Seron (Universidad de Zaragoza) Diego Gutierrez (Universidad de Zaragoza) Henrik Wann Jensen (University of California, San Diego)

OSCAM – Optimized Stereoscopic Camera Control for Interactive 3D

December 12, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Thomas Oskam (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Huw Bowles (Black Rock Studio/Disney Interactive Studios) Kenny Mitchell (Black Rock Studio/Disney Interactive Studios) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Computing and Fabricating Multilayer Models

December 12, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Michael Holroyd (Disney Research/University of Virginia) Ilya Baran (Disney Research) Jason Lawrence (University of Virginia) Wojciech Matusik (Disney Research/MIT CSAIL)

Multi-Perspective Stereoscopy from Light Fields

December 12, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Changil Kim (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Wojciech Matusik (Disney Research/MIT CSAIL) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Modular Radiance Transfer

December 12, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Bradford J. Loos (Disney Interactive Studios/University of Utah) Lakulish Antani (Disney Interactive Studios/UNC Chapel Hill) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Interactive Studios) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Peter-Pike Sloan (Disney Interactive Studios)

Progressive Photon Beams

December 12, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Robert Thomas (Disney Research) Peter-Pike Sloan (Disney Interactive Studios) Matthias Zwicker (University of Bern)

A Simple Framework to Simulate the Mobility and Activity of Theme Park Visitors

December 11, 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2011 Vladimir Vukadinovic (Disney Research) Fabian Dreier (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

An FPGA-Based Processing Pipeline for High Definition Stereo Video

November 4, 2011 EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (EURASIP JIVP) 2011 Pierre Greisen (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Andreas Burg (EPF Lausanne)

Light Factorization for Mixed-Frequency Shadows in Augmented Reality

October 26, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2011 Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Stefan Geiger (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Research) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Performance of Dual Wi-Fi Radios in Infrastructure-Supported Multi-Hop Networks

October 17, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2011 Fabian Dreier (Disney Research/ETH Joint M.Sc.) Vladimir Vukadinovic (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Opportunistic Wireless Communication in Theme Parks: A Study of Visitors Mobility

September 23, 2011 ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (ACM CHANTS) 2011 Vladimir Vukadinovic (Disney Research) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

Joint Optimization of HD Video Coding Rates and Unicast Flow Control for IEEE 802.11ad Relaying

September 11, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2011 Joongheon Kim (UCSD) Yafei Tian (UCSD) Andy Molisch (UCSD) Stefan Mangold (Disney Research)

2D to 3D Conversion of Sports Content Using Panoramas

September 11, 2011 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2011 Lars Schnyder (Disney Research) Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Extending SVC by Content-Adaptive Spatial Scalability

September 11, 2011 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2011 Yongzhe Wang (Disney Research) Nikolce Stefanoski (Disney Research) Manuel Lang (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

3D Video and Free Viewpoint Video – from Capture to Display

September 1, 2011 Pattern Recognition 2011 Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research)

Computational Stereo Camera System with Programmable Control Loop

August 7, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Simon Heinzle (Disney Research) Pierre Greisen (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) David Gallup (University of North Carolina) Christine Chen (ETH Zurich) Daniel Saner (ETH Zurich) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Andreas Burg (ETH Zurich) Wojciech Matusik (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

A Programmable System for Artistic Volumetric Lighting

August 7, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Jared Johnson (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Andrew Selle (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Dylan Lacewell (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Michael Kaschalk (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research)

High-Quality Passive Facial Performance Capture using Anchor Frames

August 7, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Thabo Beeler (Disney Research) Fabian Hahn (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Derek Bradley (Disney Research) Bernd Bickel (Disney Research) Paul Beardsley (Disney Research) Craig Gotsman (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Efficient Elasticity for Character Skinning with Contact and Collisions

August 7, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Aleka McAdams (Walt Disney Animation Studios/University of California, Los Angeles) Yongning Zhu (PDI/DreamWorks) Andrew Selle (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Mark Empey (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Rasmus Tamstorf (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Joseph Teran (University of California, Los Angeles/Walt Disney Animation Studios) Eftychios Sifakis (University of Wisconsin, Madison/Walt Disney Animation Studios)

StereoBrush: Interactive 2D to 3D Conversion Using Discontinuous Warps

August 5, 2011 Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM) 2011 Oliver Wang (Disney Research) Manuel Lang (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Matthias Frei (Disney Research) Alexander Sorkine-Hornung (Disney Research) Aljoscha Smolic (Disney Research) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

Runtime Implementation of Modular Radiance Transfer

August 1, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH Sketches/Talks 2011 Bradford J. Loos (University of Utah) Lakulish Antani (UNC Chapel Hill) Kenny Mitchell (Disney Interactive Studios) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Peter-Pike Sloan (Disney Interactive Studios)

Perceptually-Based Compensation of Light Pollution in Display Systems

August 1, 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (ACM APGV) 2011 Jeroen van Baar (Disney Research) Steven Poulakos (Disney Research) Wojciech Jarosz (Disney Research) Derek Nowrouzezahrai (Disney Research) Rasmus Tamstorf (Disney Research/Walt Disney Animation Studios) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich)

OverCoat: An Implicit Canvas for 3D Painting

August 7, 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Johannes Schmid (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Martin Sebastian Senn (Disney Research/ETH Joint PhD) Markus Gross (Disney Research/ETH Zurich) Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research)

Progressive Expectation-Maximization for Hierarchical Rendering of Participating Media

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Ever since the arrival of streaming platforms, society has become more focused on understanding how to take the next step forward in terms of innovation. Streaming is now a new reality that is growing by the second, and businesses have begun to spend more money on streaming services in order to adapt and improve their products for this new era. This is also the case of Disney+, released at the end of 2019, which had an immediate unexpected growth upon its launch. In comparison to other streaming platforms, Disney+ had an easier debut because of its wide range of unique material available to watch. This study explores Disney+ as a brand, a streaming platform, its features and how they compare to others, as well as the company’s business model and revenue, all of which contributed to Disney+ ‘s current position among other streaming platforms. Regarding Disney+, a survey with 84 responses was conducted, and the results were analysed using descriptive and inferential (chi-square independence test) statistics. As the value of the calculated test statistic (11.24) (chi-square test) is higher than the value in the chi-square table, we conclude that there is a statistically significant association between age and being influenced by advertising.

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We present a computational tool for designing compliant mechanisms.

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We present a computational tool for designing compliant mechanisms. Our method takes as input a conventional, rigidly-articulated mechanism defining the topology of the compliant design. This input can be both planar or spatial, and we support a number of common joint types which, whenever possible, are automatically replaced with parameterized flexures. As the technical core of our approach, we describe a number of objectives that shape the design space in a meaningful way, including trajectory matching, collision avoidance, lateral stability, resilience to failure, and minimizing motor torque. Optimal designs in this space are obtained as solutions to an equilibrium-constrained minimization problem that we solve using a variant of sensitivity analysis. We demonstrate our method on a set of examples that range from simple four-bar linkages to full-fledged animatronics, and verify the feasibility of our designs by manufacturing physical prototypes.

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Why the massive investment? At a time when Disney faces revenue challenges due to cord cutting, streaming wars and a slower film box office, its theme parks are a bright — and reliable — spot for its business. Moreover, they play a major part in the company’s strategy — using well-loved movies to inspire rides and vice versa (think “Pirates of the Caribbean”), feeding an ongoing virtuous cycle.

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With the parks closed, Disney reported an operating loss of $81 million in 2020 . Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure, in particular, were shut for 15 months, due to tight restrictions in the Golden State. Since then, pent-up demand from visitors has propelled theme park revenue in a way that hasn’t been replicated in movie theaters.

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“Disney sets the bar for our entire global theme park industry,” Speigel said. “The guests, the visitors, they love the way Disney immerses you in their storytelling.”

The Disneyland Resort expansion plan, known as DisneylandForward, will help the 490-acre park stay fresh for visitors. The plan calls for changes to the park’s zoning, allowing the company more freedom to mix attractions, theme parks, shopping, dining and parking. While the plan doesn’t specify exactly which attractions will be added to the resort, company officials have floated ideas including immersive Frozen, Tron and Avatar experiences.

Over the years, Disneyland has cycled out many rides and exhibits to make way for new ones — for example, of the original 33 attractions that debuted with the park , only about a dozen still exist. (One that didn’t make it? The Monsanto Hall of Chemistry).

Though Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure have recently seen additions such as Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge , Avengers Campus and the renovated Pixar Place Hotel , giving guests new reasons to come back again and again are the key to increased growth. This summer, the Magic Kingdom will open Tiana’s Bayou Adventure , replacing the controversial “Song of the South”-inspired Splash Mountain attraction.

“In the theme parks business, you tend to make more money the more you invest,” said Lewison of Farmingdale State College. “People love riding Haunted Mansion 50 times, but the truth is that even that gets old. So new rides, new lands, new parks — these things draw in attendance, they create pricing power and they add capacity.”

And Disney’s rivals in the theme parks business show no signs of slowing down, meaning Disney can’t just rely on its existing hits. Universal Studios Hollywood recently added Super Nintendo World to its park, SeaWorld is touting new attractions and shows for its 60th anniversary this year, and even immersive art installation company Meow Wolf is expanding throughout the U.S.

The competition is becoming so fierce that Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger faced a pointed question during last month’s shareholder meeting about Walt Disney World’s readiness to vie with a new Universal park set to open in Orlando in 2025. He pushed back on the query, saying the idea that Disney World didn’t prepare enough attractions to compete for guests that year “just couldn’t be further from the truth.”

“We’ve been aware of Universal’s plans for a new park for more than a decade,” he said. “We have a sophisticated approach to analyzing the needs of all of our businesses and strategically deploying capital.”

The importance of the parks to Disney’s bottom line is also showing up in the entertainment giant’s search for Iger’s successor . (Iger is expected to retire in 2026.) Josh D’Amaro, the chair of Disney Experiences, which includes the parks, is considered one of four front-runners for the job. Notably, it was Bob Chapek, formerly of the parks division, who initially succeeded Iger, though he was later ousted from the role.

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