Computer vision
Teaching machines to interpret and reason about the visual world, from object recognition to medical imaging.
Video
Controllable High-Fidelity Facial Performance Transfer
Recent technological advances in facial capture have made it possible to acquire high-fidelity 3D facial performance data with stunningly high spatial-temporal resolution. This paper introduces a novel facial expression transfer and editing technique for high-fidelity…
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Project Adam demo from Faculty Summit 2014
Watch Project Adam identify different breeds of dogs in this demo from the Faculty Summit 2014 keynote address.
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Harry Shum: Faculty Summit 2014 Keynote
Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Technology and Research group, opens the Faculty Summit by highlighting major efforts at Microsoft Research. Two of significance are the integration of Microsoft Academic Search into Bing with…
Publication
Learning Fast Hand Pose Recognition
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Microsoft Research Design Expo 2014
During Microsoft’s annual Faculty Summit, universities from around the world send teams of students to present projects with potential real-world impact. See what these students did to answer the question, “What would you do with…
Project
Learning to be a depth camera for close-range human capture and interaction
We present a machine learning technique for estimating absolute, per-pixel depth using any conventional monocular 2D camera, with minor hardware modifications. Our approach targets close-range human capture and interaction where dense 3D estimation of hands…
Event
Faculty Summit 2014
Leading academic researchers and educators joined Microsoft researchers and engineers to explore future technology trends that will define the twenty-first century at the fifteenth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. Topics included computing devices and the…