Bandits with Switching Costs: T 2/3 Regret
Enabling Cross-Lingual Conversations in Real Time
Sometimes, a dream needs but a nudge to propel it toward reality. That is exactly what Eric Rudder and Peter Lee delivered to Microsoft’s Machine Translation team about a year ago. Rudder, then Microsoft’s chief…
Real-Time RGB-D Camera Relocalization
We introduce an efficient camera relocalization approach which can be easily integrated into real-time 3D reconstruction methods, such as KinectFusion. Our approach makes use of compact encoding of whole image frames which enables both online…
Skype Translator: Breaking down language barriers
Peter Lee, Microsoft Research VP, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speech recognition, automatic translation, and machine learning technologies. The Skype Translator is now being…
Benchmark for Robotic Indoor Navigation
An experimental protocol for evaluating autonomous navigation systems in indoor environments. Introduction Robot navigation is one of the most studied problems in robotics and the key capability for robot autonomy. Navigation techniques have become more…