Multimodal Interaction for Data Visualization
Advancing accessibility with Dr. Meredith Ringel Morris
Episode 25, May 23, 2018 – Dr. Morris gives us some fascinating insights into the world of “ability,” talks about how technology is augmenting not only sensory and motor abilities, but cognitive and social abilities…
Insights on the future of video calling in emergency situations
For most of us, a call to emergency services is a rare act, or one thankfully that we’ve never had to take. Anyone having had to make that call often will, in a calmer future…
Sounding the Future: Microsoft Research brings its best to ICASSP 2018 in Calgary
Introduction Speech technology has come a long way since Alexander Graham Bell’s famous Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you became the first speech to be heard over the telephone in…
Connecting Vision and Language via Interpretation, Grounding and Imagination
Understanding how to model vision and language jointly is a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence. Vision is one of the primary sensors we use to perceive the world, while language is our data structure to…
Found in Translation: Achieving Human Parity on Chinese to English News Translation
Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent years. In this talk we describe recent advances of Microsoft’s machine translation system using Neural Machine Translation that lead to achieving a new state-of-the-art, and achieving human…