Computer Vision
Enabling computers and devices to understand what they see.
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Fostering collaboration: the Swiss Joint Research Center
Through our Joint Research Center program, Microsoft Research works closely with major research institutions to invest in the future of computer science. One of our newest additions to this program is the Swiss Joint Research…
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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…
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Real-time 3D Reconstruction at Scale using Voxel Hashing
Online 3D reconstruction is gaining newfound interest due to the availability of real-time consumer depth cameras. The basic problem takes live overlapping depth maps as input and incrementally fuses these into a single 3D model.…
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Kinectrack: Agile 6-DoF Tracking Using a Projected Dot Pattern
We present Kinectrack, a new six degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) tracker which allows real-time and low-cost pose estimation using only commodity hardware. We decouple the dot pattern emitter and IR camera of the Kinect. Keeping the camera…
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MonoFusion
MonoFusion allows a user to build dense 3D reconstructions of their environment in real-time, utilizing only a single, off-the-shelf web camera as the input sensor. The camera could be one already available in a tablet,…
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Micro-Baseline Stereo
Tradeoffs exist between the baseline or distance between cameras and the difficulty of matching corresponding points in stereo and structure from motion. Smaller baselines result in reduced disparities reducing the accuracy of depth estimation. Larger…
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Micro-Baseline Stereo
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Leading Edge of the Cloud
Leading Edge of the Cloud Moderator: Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research Data Center Design Issues David Gauthier, Microsoft Cloudlets Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Thoughts on Cloud Networking Albert Greenberg, Microsoft The Leading Edge for eScience Jonathan…
