Computer vision
Teaching machines to interpret and reason about the visual world, from object recognition to medical imaging.
Tool
Image Cropping Dataset
The Image Cropping Dataset contains the cropping parameters for 1000 images that were manually cropped by an experienced photographer. The cropping parameters indicate the coordinates of the upper-left and bottom-right corners of the crop box.…
Video
Common Sense in Semantic Scene Understanding
Common sense is knowledge that we all have, knowledge that we assume other people know about the world. Computer-science researchers have common sense, but our computers don’t. This limits the research goals that computer scientists…
Publication
StoryFlow: Tracking the Evolution of Stories
Video
BodyAvatar: Creating Freeform 3D Avatars Person Body Gestures [Video]
BodyAvatar is a Kinect-based interactive system that allows users without professional skills to create freeform 3D avatars using body gestures. Unlike existing gesture-based 3D modeling tools, BodyAvatar centers around a first-person “you’re the avatar” metaphor,…
Microsoft Research Blog
Collaboration, Expertise Produce Enhanced Sensing in Xbox One
Cyrus Bamji had encountered a challenge. Luckily for him, Microsoft Research had just the solution. Bamji, Microsoft partner hardware architect for Microsoft’s Silicon Valley-based Architecture and Silicon Management group, and members of his team were…