Disney Research Studios

We present a technique for adding fine-scale details and expressiveness to low-resolution art-directed facial performances, such as those created manually using a rig, via marker-based capture, by fitting a morphable model to a video, or through Kinect reconstruction using recent faceshift technology.

We propose a complete process for augmenting physical avatars using projector-based illumination, significantly increasing their expressiveness.

We propose second-order Taylor expansion from cache points, which results in more accurate irradiance reconstruction.

We organize this complex and active research area in a structure tailored to academic researchers, graduate students, and industry professionals alike.

We present a novel stereo-to-multiview video conversion method for glasses-free multiview displays.

Developing control methods that allow legged robots to move with skill and agility remains one of the grand challenges in robotics.

In this paper, a view synthesis method based on Image-domain-Warping (IDW) is presented which synthesizes new views directly from S3D video and functions completely automatically.

We address this issue by introducing a simple, low-level, patch-consistency assumption that leverages the extra information present in video data to resolve this ambiguity.

Even though the human eye is one of the central features of individual appearance, its shape has so far been mostly approximated in our community with gross simplifications. In this paper we demonstrate that there is a lot of individuality to every eye, a fact that common practices for 3D eye generation do not consider.

Recent subjective studies showed that current tone mapping operators either produce disturbing temporal artifacts, or are limited in their local contrast reproduction capability. We address both of these issues and present an HDR video tone mapping operator that can greatly reduce the input dynamic range, while at the same time preserving scene details without causing significant visual artifacts.