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…
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…
Faculty Fellowship Awards 2014
Peter Lee, corporate vice president and head of Microsoft Research, recognizes 2014 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows during Faculty Summit 2014. These seven early-career academics are pursuing some of the most exciting, high-impact areas of computer…
Climatology
Climatology was an app developed to give you seasonal climate information for absolutely anywhere on Earth including temperature, rain, sunniness and humidity. Whether finding where are the warm, dry places to go on holiday in…
New Hope for People Living with Paralysis
Learn how Nilanjan Banerjee from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, uses the Lab of Things as the platform to interconnect wearable sensors like gloves, headbands, and capacitive sensors built into clothing, bedsheets, and wheelchair…