Computer Vision
Enabling computers and devices to understand what they see.
Video
CLAW: A Multifunctional Handheld Haptic Controller for Grasping, Touching, and Triggering in VR
CLAW extends the concept of a VR controller to a multifunctional haptic tool, using a single motor. At first glance, it looks very similar to your standard VR controller. A closer look reveals a unique…
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Haptic Revolver: Touch, Shear, Texture, & Shape Rendering on a Reconfigurable VR Controller
The Haptic Revolver, also known as the Haptic Wheel, uses an actuated wheel that moves up and down to render touch contact with a virtual surface and spins to render shear forces and motion as the…
Video
Designing Gaze Visualizations for Remote Collaboration and Learning
Technological advances are improving our ability to work and learn together, even when separated by distance. However, distributed environments lack many of the rich interpersonal cues that we take for granted in co-located collaboration. For…
Event
Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2018
The 5th annual workshop of the Microsoft-Swiss Joint Research Center (with ETH Zurich/EPFL) took place February 19 -20, 2018 at EPFL in Lausanne. This was the last workshop for the Swiss JRC in 2018. The…
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Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research
Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish…
Video
Cardiolens. “Pulse and Vital Sign Measurement in Mixed Reality using a HoloLens”
Cardiography, quantitative measurement of the functioning of the heart, traditionally requires customized obtrusive contact sensors. Using new methods photoplethysmography and ballistocardiography signals can be captured using ubiquitous sensors, such as webcams and accelerometers. However, these…
Video
Recent Results on Learning Filters and Style Transfer
In the first part of this talk, I will present recent results on learning image filters for low-level vision. We formulate numerous low-level vision problems (e.g., edge-preserving filtering and denoising) as recursive image filtering via…
Project
Cardi♥lens
Imagine if you could look at someone and see their heart beat? Surgeons could see whether a transplanted organ/tissue has blood flowing to it.· Physical trainers would be able to see if athletes are in…