Computer graphics, video processing, computer vision, robotics
Location
Los Angeles, United States Zurich, Switzerland
Affiliations
ETH Zurich
Website
disneyresearch.com
Disney Research is a network of research labs supporting The Walt Disney Company. Its purpose is to pursue scientific and technological innovation to advance the company's broad media and entertainment efforts.
It has facilities in Los Angeles, Zurich and Edinburgh. Research topics include computer graphics, video processing, computer vision, robotics,[1] radio and antennas, wireless communications, human-computer interaction, displays, data mining, machine learning, and behavioral sciences. The lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts was closed in January 2016.[2]
Disney Research is managed by an internal Disney Research Council co-chaired by Disney-Pixar's Ed Catmull and including the directors of the individual labs.
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^"Disney is closing its research lab in Cambridge". Boston Globe. February 11, 2016.
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