Computer Vision
Enabling computers and devices to understand what they see.
Publication
Learning to Navigate the Energy Landscape
Video
Characterizing Street-level Accessibility at Scale
Poorly maintained sidewalks pose considerable accessibility challenges for people with mobility impairments. Despite comprehensive civil rights legislation for Americans with disabilities, many city streets and sidewalks in the U.S. remain inaccessible. The problem is not…
Publication
Multi-Timescale Collaborative Tracking
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Enabling a Future of Perceptive Assistance: System Support for Efficiency and Privacy in Continuous Mobile Vision
In my vision for the future, wearable computing devices will interpret rich visual real-world environments in real-time, providing services to assist in our daily lives with “Continuous Mobile Vision”. For example, by remembering faces and…
Microsoft Research Blog
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,…
Video
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…
