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Walt Disney (Switzerland)

In research, Walt Disney (Switzerland) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,863 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Science and Physical Sciences (Computer Science is 7.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, all time
#25,165
of 34,923
Rank in Switzerland
#302
of 378
Research works
180
▲ 58% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.1k
33.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.25×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
24%
world 40%
International
39%
world 18%
Walt Disney (Switzerland)

What is Walt Disney (Switzerland) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #5,863 of 17,446 22.3%168

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Walt Disney (Switzerland) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Walt Disney (Switzerland) work in?

In 2022-now, 93% of research at Walt Disney (Switzerland) is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (62%), Engineering (29%), Psychology (3%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 36 fractional works · 93.2% of its workComputer Science: 24 fractional works · 61.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 18 fractional works · 46.4% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 4 fractional works · 9.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEngineering: 11 fractional works · 29.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 5 fractional works · 13.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 4 fractional works · 11.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKWalt Disney(Switzerland)39fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences93%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences4%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science2461.7%
    2. Engineering1129.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy11.6%
    4. Mathematics00.4%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.3%
    6. Environmental Science00.1%
    1. Psychology13.0%
    2. Social Sciences00.6%
    1. Neuroscience11.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.6%
    1. Medicine01.2%
    2. Dentistry00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Walt Disney (Switzerland) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Science takes 7.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer ScienceField · 24.0 works7.9×
  2. Physical SciencesDomain · 36.2 works2.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.84× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 7.94× its world share, 24 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.93× its world share, 11 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksDentistryMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMedicinePsychology: 1.00× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 7.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science7.94×24 works
  2. Engineering1.93×11 works
  3. Psychology1.00×1 works
  4. Neuroscience0.84×0 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy0.73×1 works
  6. Mathematics0.36×0 works
  7. Dentistry0.22×0 works
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.16×0 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.11×0 works
  10. Medicine0.06×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.05×0 works
  12. Environmental Science0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Walt Disney (Switzerland)?

Ranked on the quality score, Manuel Lang, Moritz Bächer and Abdelaziz Djelouah lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Walt Disney (Switzerland).

  1. 1 Manuel Lang Switzerland · #355,211 worldwide 1.5k citations · 24 works
  2. 2 Moritz Bächer Switzerland · #369,324 worldwide 2.2k citations · 72 works
  3. 3 Abdelaziz Djelouah Switzerland · #866,115 worldwide 1.3k citations · 47 works
  4. 4 Giorgio Corbellini Switzerland · #1,992,257 worldwide 491 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Espen Knoop Switzerland · #2,018,186 worldwide 700 citations · 47 works
  6. 6 Agon Serifi Switzerland · #2,168,299 worldwide 114 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 Paul Kanyuk Switzerland · #3,202,058 worldwide 47 citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Jakob Buhmann Switzerland · #4,288,452 worldwide 91 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Adriano Galati Switzerland · #4,462,689 worldwide 133 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Walt Disney (Switzerland)

What are the most cited papers from Walt Disney (Switzerland)?

The most cited paper from Walt Disney (Switzerland) is "Saliency filters: Contrast based filtering for salient region detection" (Federico Perazzi, Philipp Krähenbühl, Yael Pritch et al., 2012), with 2,144 citations. Next come "Scene reconstruction from high spatio-angular resolution light fields" (443) and "Microstructures to control elasticity in 3D printing" (422).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Saliency filters: Contrast based filtering for salient region detection Federico Perazzi, Philipp Krähenbühl, Yael Pritch et al. Conference paper Jun 2012 2,144
2 Scene reconstruction from high spatio-angular resolution light fields Chang-Il Kim, Henning Zimmer, Yael Pritch et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics 16 Jul 2013 443
3 Microstructures to control elasticity in 3D printing Christian Schumacher, Bernd Bickel, Jan Ryś et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics Open access 27 Jul 2015 422
4 Normalized Cut Loss for Weakly-Supervised CNN Segmentation Meng Tang, Abdelaziz Djelouah, Federico Perazzi et al. Conference paper Jun 2018 357
5 Nonlinear disparity mapping for stereoscopic 3D Manuel Lang, Andreas Hornung, Oliver Wang et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics 15 Jul 2010 337
All 55 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Walt Disney (Switzerland)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Networks, Unsupervised Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks, Simulation, Pose Estimation and Image Inpainting.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 37 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 37 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning22▲ 16×17 topics
  2. Neural Networks8▲ 14×7 topics
  3. Convolutional Networks7▲ 138×3 topics
  4. Unsupervised Learning7▲ 114×2 topics
  5. Generative Adversarial Networks6▲ 185×2 topics
  6. Simulation4▲ 40×3 topics
  7. Pose Estimation4▲ 88×2 topics
  8. Image Inpainting4▲ 204×1 topic
  9. Image Synthesis4▲ 204×1 topic
  10. Computer Graphics4▲ 375×1 topic
  11. Visualization4▲ 172×1 topic
  12. 3D Reconstruction4▲ 101×1 topic
  13. Point Clouds4▲ 101×1 topic
  14. Virtual Reality3▲ 17×3 topics
  15. Convolutional Neural Networks3▲ 11×3 topics
  16. Character Animation3▲ 493×1 topic
  17. Motion Synthesis3▲ 493×1 topic
  18. Depth Estimation3▲ 92×1 topic
  19. Sparse Representation3▲ 38×3 topics
  20. Stereo Vision3▲ 152×1 topic
  21. Image2▲ 161×1 topic
  22. Super-Resolution2▲ 161×1 topic
  23. Face Recognition2▲ 49×2 topics
  24. Action Recognition2▲ 105×1 topic
  25. Age Estimation2▲ 75×1 topic
  26. Facial Landmark Detection2▲ 117×1 topic
  27. Spatiotemporal Features2▲ 105×1 topic
  28. Image Processing1▲ 8.2×2 topics
  29. Content-Based Retrieval1▲ 129×1 topic
  30. Contrast Enhancement1▲ 79×1 topic
  31. Dehazing1▲ 79×1 topic
  32. Dynamic Modeling1▲ 72×2 topics
  33. Hyperspectral Imaging1▲ 12×2 topics
  34. Video Summarization1▲ 129×1 topic
  35. Wavelet Transform1▲ 13×2 topics
  36. Image Denoising1▲ 62×1 topic
  37. Sparse Representations1▲ 62×1 topic

Which research topics does Walt Disney (Switzerland) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis and Human Motion and Animation.

Generative Adversarial N…4Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 4 fractional worksComputer Graphics and Vi…4Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques: 4 fractional works3D Shape Modeling and An…43D Shape Modeling and Analysis: 4 fractional worksHuman Motion and Animation3Human Motion and Animation: 3 fractional worksAdvanced Vision and Imaging: 3 fractional worksAdvanced Image Processing Techniques: 2 fractional worksFace recognition and ana…2Face recognition and analysis: 2 fractional worksHuman Pose and Action Recognition: 2 fractional worksVideo Analysis and Summarization: 1 fractional worksImage Enhancement Techniques: 1 fractional works
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignComputational MechanicsControl and Systems Engineering

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4 works
  2. 2 Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design 4 works
  3. 3 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis Computational Mechanics 4 works
  4. 4 Human Motion and Animation Control and Systems Engineering 3 works
  5. 5 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 3 works
  6. 6 Advanced Image Processing Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  7. 7 Face recognition and analysis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  8. 8 Human Pose and Action Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  9. 9 Video Analysis and Summarization Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  10. 10 Image Enhancement Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available23.6%not open76.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors38.6%domestic only61.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Walt Disney (Switzerland)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 58% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Walt Disney (Switzerland) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00021% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Walt Disney (Switzerland)0.00013% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Walt Disney (Switzerland) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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