Video Abstract: Project Malmo – Experimentation Platform for the Next Generation of AI Research
Project Malmo is an open source AI experimentation platform that supports fundamental AI research. With the platform, Microsoft provides an experimentation environment in which promising approaches can be systematically and easily compared, and that fosters…
Video Abstract: Microsoft Translator live
Microsoft Translator live enables users to hold translated conversations across two or more languages, with up to 100 participants participating at the same time using PowerPoint, iOS, Android, Windows and web endpoints. Businesses, retail stores,…
Video Abstract: InstaFact—Bringing Knowledge to Office Apps
This demo shows how InstaFact brings the information and intelligence of the Satori knowledge graph into Microsoft’s productivity software. InstaFact can automatically complete factual information in the text a user is writing or can verify…
Video Abstract: InfoBots: AI-Powered Conversational QnA Systems
As we move into the world of messaging apps, bots and botification of content, users are starting to move from keyword searches to relying on bots and assistants for their information seeking needs. Bing has…
Video Abstract: Human-Robot Collaboration
This demonstration uses Softbank’s Pepper robot as testbed hardware to show a set of human-collaboration activities based on Microsoft Cognitive Services and other Microsoft Research technologies. As both a research and prototype-engineering effort, this project…
Video Abstract: Deep Artistic Style Transfer: From Images to Videos
This demo demonstrates several applications of Microsoft’s recent work in artistic style transfer for images and videos. One technology, called StyleBank, provides an explicit representation for visual styles with a feedforward deep network that can…
Video Abstract: Customizing Speech Recognition for Higher Accuracy Transcriptions
Two of the most important components of speech recognition systems are the acoustic model and the language model. Those models behind Microsoft’s speech recognition engine have been optimized for certain usage scenarios, such as interacting…
Video Abstract: Custom Vision Service
This demo shows how Custom Vision Service can be applied to many AI vision applications. For example, if a client needs to build a custom image classifier, they can submit a few images of objects,…
Video Abstract: Bing Visual Search
Visual search, AKA search by image, is a new way of searching for information using an image or part of an image as the query. Similar to text search, which connects keyword queries to knowledge…
Policy Gradient Methods: Tutorial and New Frontiers
In this tutorial we discuss several recent advances in deep reinforcement learning involving policy gradient methods. These methods have shown significant success in a wide range of domains, including continuous-action domains such as manipulation, locomotion,…