Opening the world of advanced software technology
By Judith Bishop, Director of Computer Science, Microsoft Research In the world of information technology, the word “open” can mean many different things. For me, it refers to how software is both written and used,…
Room2Room: Enabling Life-Size Telepresence in a Projected Augmented Reality Environment
Room2Room is a life-size telepresence system that leverages projected augmented reality to enable co-present interaction between two remote participants. Our solution recreates the experience of a face-to-face conversation by performing 3D capture of the local…
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Yong Rui wins IEEE Computer Society 2016 Technical Achievement Award
By Allison Linn, Senior Writer at Microsoft When Yong Rui first began doing computer vision research in 1995, the Internet was still in its infancy and the idea of using technology to automatically search for images seemed…
Microsoft Research Asia Symposium on Collaborative Research presents exciting innovations
By Xin Ma, Regional University Relations Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The 2015 Microsoft Research Asia Symposium on Collaborative Research was held on November 27 in Beijing, China. Professors from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore gathered…