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Disney Research is a network of research labs that collaborate closely with academic institutions We're able to combine the best of academia and industry: we work on a broad range of commercially important challenges, we view publication as a principal mechanism for quality control, we encourage engagement with the global research community, and our research has applications that are experienced by millions of people. We're honoring Walt Disney's legacy of innovation by researching novel technologies and deploying them on a global scale.

Name Pronunciation Extraction and Reuse in Human-Agent Conversation

Personalization in human-robot interaction (HRI) has been shown to have powerful effects on both users' perception of robots and objective interaction outcomes. Calling a human user by their name, an important signal to communicate understanding the user and memorizing information about them, remai…

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Trajectory Augmentation for Robust Neural Locomotion Controllers

In this work, we show that this is due to training on unbalanced biased datasets with poor representation for many important gaits and transitions. To solve this poor data problem, we introduce Trajectory Augmentation (TrajAug), a fully automatic data augmentation technique that generates synthetic…

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Optimal Design of Robotic Character Kinematics Video

We propose a technique that simultaneously solves for optimal design and control parameters for a robotic character whose design is parameterized with configurable joints. At the technical core of our technique is an efficient solution strategy that uses dynamic programming to solve for optimal sta…

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