Growing a generation of computer scientists – Microsoft Research Asia at 20 and going beyond technical achievement
Microsoft Research Asia celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and the milestone provided an occasion for many in the industry to reflect on an amazing journey, one not only replete with excellence and technological achievement,…
Ambient Sound Propagation
Project PRISM
Early in 2016 our team began developing augmented reality (AR) headsets by adding stereo cameras to a virtual reality (VR) system. The user sees the real world through the video feed from the cameras. Synthetic…
Image Composite Editor (ICE)
Image Composite Editor (ICE) is an advanced panoramic image stitcher created by the Microsoft Research Computational Photography Group. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the app…
Computational Video: Methods for Video Segmentation and Video Stabilization, and their Applications.
In this talk, I will present two specific methods for Computational Video and their applications. First I will describe a method for Video Stabilization. I will describe a novel algorithm for video stabilization that generates…
Microsoft @ ACM Multimedia 2018
The ACM Multimedia Conference for 2018, the premier conference for multimedia experts and practitioners across academia and industry.
The poet in the machine: Auto-generation of poetry directly from images through multi-adversarial training – and a little inspiration
As the means of expressing thoughts and feelings too sublime and elusive to be conveyed in everyday language, poetry across all cultures occupies a most sophisticated and mysterious of realms, just beyond the outskirts of…