Disney Research is a network of research labs supporting
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16 ...
. 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
Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. ...
,
video processing,
computer vision
Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...
,
robotics
Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots.
Within mechanical engineering, robotics is the design and construction of the physical structures of robots, while in computer s ...
,
radio
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and
antennas,
wireless communications,
human-computer interaction,
displays,
data mining,
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...
, and
behavioral sciences
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. The lab in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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was closed in January 2016.
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.
Notable works
BB-8
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was a physical prop developed by Disney Research,
created by special effects artist
Neal Scanlan.
See also
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Walt Disney Imagineering
Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, Inc.—commonly referred to as Walt Disney Imagineering, Imagineering, or WDI—is the research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation, design, and construc ...
References
External links
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Carnegie Mellon University
Disney technology
Research organizations in the United States
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