Computer Vision
Enabling computers and devices to understand what they see.
Video
Tight Learning Bounds for Multi-Class Classification
Extreme classification is a rapidly growing research area focusing on multi-class and multi-label problems involving an extremely large number of labels. Many applications have been found in diverse areas ranging from language modeling to document…
Project
A Panorama of the Skies
A Panorama of the Skies is a prototype of an immersive audiovisual installation created in collaboration between Maja Petrić, an artist, and Hrvoje Benko, a human-computer interaction researcher at Microsoft Research. Together they have been…
Project
The Seattle Gigapixel ArtZoom
Having created gigapixel-sized (multi-billion pixel) images of cities, we found them fascinating to explore, but also surprisingly devoid of the most exciting part of a city, its people. Matt Uyttendaele, Michael Cohen, Cindy Ball, and…
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Virus
Virus is a conceptual art installation, created by artists Neel Joshi and Asta Roseway, that explores the idea of creating an organism that is fed by the people and activity in the building. The organism…
Microsoft Research Blog
Will machines one day be as creative as humans?
Recent methods in artificial intelligence enable AI software to produce rich and creative digital artifacts such as text and images painted from scratch. One technique used in creating these artifacts are generative adversarial networks (GANs).…
Podcast
New Microsoft Research Podcast invites you to log on, tune in and geek out
Microsoft Research Podcast Subscribe and listen on iTunes, android or email I’ve spent the better part of the last decade investigating the impact of digital media and technology on culture from an academic perspective. I…
Project
Remnance of Form
Remnance of Form is an interactive installation, by the artist Sang-won Leigh, that explores the dynamic tension between an object and its shadow. By fusing light, projection, and motion technologies, the shadow can now detach…