Computer Vision
Enabling computers and devices to understand what they see.
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Tech Showcase: Project Kinect for Azure depth sensor technology
We present a prototype of time-of-flight depth-sensing technology, which will be adopted in Project Kinect for Azure as well as in the next-generation of HoloLens. This depth sensor outperforms the current state-of-the-art in terms of…
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Improving Yield of Energy Resources – AI Driven Approach
As we are building smart energy infrastructure that includes various forms of hybrid energy resources including electric vehicles, solar, battery storage etc., it firstly requires data to be collected from these disparate energy sources and…
Microsoft Research Blog
Three Microsoft fellowship programs support academics and the future of the computer science field
To help academics advance their research, Microsoft has supported hundreds of fellows through the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. This year we are expanding our funding support by creating two new fellowships: one designed to support…
Podcast
Research you can (really) use with Dr. Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
Episode 35, August 1, 2018 – Dr. Ravindranath Sivalingam tells us why he is so passionate about what he does, explains how internships can literally change your life, and shares the story of how a…
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Researcher in the Hall: Laura Haas
Laura Haas, Dean, College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst attended the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2018. We caught her in the hall and she discusses a new body of research around “computing for…
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Robust Fitting of Subdivision Surfaces for Smooth Shape Analysis
Most shape analysis methods use meshes to discretize the shape and functions on it by piecewise linear functions. Fine meshes are then necessary to represent smooth shapes and compute accurate curvatures or Laplace-Beltrami eigenfunctions at…
