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CoModGAN: AI-Powered Image Completion
CoModGAN is an image completion tool that uses AI to complete an image that is missing significant amounts of visual information. Two neural networks—a generator tasked with filing in missing information and a discriminator that analyzes the realism of the…
Transformer is well acknowledged to be the most powerful neural network in modelling sequential data, such as in natural language and speech. Model variants built upon Transformer have also shown great performance in computer vision and programming language. However, Transformer…
Microsoft appointed Dr. Lidong Zhou, Distinguished Scientist of Microsoft as Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. He is responsible for the lab’s overall research and development activities in both Beijing and Shanghai and will also oversee the lab’s collaborations with academic…
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Pearson empowers language students to learn faster in a natural way with Azure AI capabilities
Pearson helps people around the globe learn foreign languages so that they can advance in academics and careers. When primary school students learn English, they often need more practice and feedback from teachers and parents than they can get. Pearson…
As one of the world’s top AI conference, CVPR has been leading the academic and industrial trend in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition technology. Here, 12 papers from Microsoft Research Asia accepted by CVPR 2021 have been…
Recently, the industry has witnessed the growth of highly advanced and powerful AI language models. When the industry marvels at its variety of skills, like drawing, writing, and game-playing, it also worries for its IQ. For example, if you try…
By Xu Tan , Senior Researcher Neural network based text to speech (TTS) has made rapid progress in recent years. Previous neural TTS models (e.g., Tacotron 2) first generate mel-spectrograms autoregressively from text and then synthesize speech from the generated mel-spectrograms using a…
The science behind semantic search: How AI from Bing is powering Azure Cognitive Search
| Rangan Majumder, Alec Berntson, Daxin Jiang (姜大昕), Jianfeng Gao, Furu Wei, and Nan Duan
Azure Cognitive Search (opens in new tab) is a cloud search service that gives developers APIs and tools to build rich search experiences over private, heterogeneous content in web, mobile, and enterprise applications. It has multiple components, including an API for indexing and querying, seamless integration through Azure data ingestion, deep…
AAAI 2021: Accelerating the impact of artificial intelligence
The purpose of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, according to its bylaws, is twofold. The first is to promote research in the area of AI, and the second is to promote the responsible use of these types of technology. The result was a 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) (opens…