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The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is regarded as the premier conference in computer vision and pattern recognition. CVPR 2022, held on June 19-23, received a record number of 8,161 full submissions that went into the review…
Since 2019, researchers at Microsoft Research Asia have been exploring Document AI and have completed a series of work on LayoutLM/LayoutLMv2/LayoutXLM, TrOCR, MarkupLM, etc., achieving breakthroughs in a range of typical tasks such as object detection, information extraction, and document…
In the past two years, there have been numerous papers written on Transformer, and researchers are designing Transformer models for all kinds of tasks. However, is attention, the core module of Transformer, really stronger than convolution? This paper may bring…
AI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery
| Christopher Bishop
Editor’s note, Oct. 20, 2023 – The post was updated to remove information related to the Amsterdam lab, as those details have since changed. Over the coming decade, deep learning looks set to have a transformational impact on the natural…
Introducing the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative
Addressing and mitigating the effects of climate change requires a collective effort, bringing our strengths to bear across industry, government, academia, and civil society.
WWW (Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference) is one of the most important international conferences in the field of Internet technology. WWW 2022 was held as an online conference in Lyon, France, on April 25-29. A total of 1,822 long…
Swin Transformer supports 3-billion-parameter vision models that can train with higher-resolution images for greater task applicability
| Han Hu and Baining Guo
Early last year, our research team from the Visual Computing Group introduced Swin Transformer, a Transformer-based general-purpose computer vision architecture that for the first time beat convolutional neural networks on the important vision benchmark of COCO object detection (opens in…
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Tech Minutes: Swin Transformer
Learn how Swin Transformer surpasses previously dominant CNN (convolutional neural network) architectures in computer vision. Presented by Han Hu, Principal Researcher and Research Manager from Microsoft Research Asia.
As a top international academic conference in the field of natural language processing, ACL attracts paper submissions and conference participation from a large number of scholars every year. This year’s ACL conference was held from May 22nd to May 27th.…