Project Adam demo from Faculty Summit 2014
Watch Project Adam identify different breeds of dogs in this demo from the Faculty Summit 2014 keynote address.
CityNoise
CityNoise is a project led by Dr. Yu Zheng in Microsoft Research. The project aims to diagnose a city’s noise pollution with crowdsensing and ubiquitous data. It reveals the fine-grained noise situation throughout a city…
Harry Shum: Faculty Summit 2014 Keynote
Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Technology and Research group, opens the Faculty Summit by highlighting major efforts at Microsoft Research. Two of significance are the integration of Microsoft Academic Search into Bing with…
Learning to be a depth camera for close-range human capture and interaction
We present a machine learning technique for estimating absolute, per-pixel depth using any conventional monocular 2D camera, with minor hardware modifications. Our approach targets close-range human capture and interaction where dense 3D estimation of hands…
On Welsh Corgis, Computer Vision, and the Power of Deep Learning
Can you tell the difference between the two breeds of corgis? If you’re like many, you probably are barely even aware that such dogs exist, let alone the fact that there are two—and only two—kinds…
CodaLab Demo
Watch a demonstration of CodaLab by Evelyne Viegas, director, Microsoft Research, and Isabella Guyon, president, Chalearn.