Microsoft Research Blog
Uncanny Valley and the Sense of Touch
The notion of an “uncanny valley” is well known in robotics[1]. This is when increasing the realism of a robot’s human-like appearance can lead to feelings of unease—or even revulsion—as a robot becomes more and…
Publication
Semantic Visual Localization
Video
Towards reconstructing the visual world
I will be talking about some of my recent work on reconstructing faces, materials and 360 environments from images and videos. The projects I will talk about are published at IEEE VR 2018, and others…
Microsoft Research Blog
Helping women thrive in graduate school! It’s time for CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop
At the workshop, 400 female graduate students in their first, second, or third years will listen to speakers, attend mentoring lunches, meet other graduate students in their research areas, get one-on-one career mentoring and have…