Detecting and Recognizing Text in Natural Images
Text in natural images possesses rich information for image understanding. Detecting and recognizing text facilitates many important applications. From a computer vision perspective, text is a structured object made of characters arranged in a line…
Exploring the Dynamics of Search Advertiser
Microsoft @ LISA 2017
Microsoft is a silver sponsor of LISA17, the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The program will address the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, curated…
Microsoft Research @ HCOMP 2017
We are excited to be a gold sponsor of Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2017, the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer…
Microsoft Research @ SPLASH 2017
We are excited to be participating in SPLASH 2017, the ACM SIGPLAN conference that embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and…
Video Understanding: From Tags to Language
The increasing ubiquity of devices capable of capturing videos has led to an explosion in the amount of recorded video content. Instead of “eyeballing” the videos for potentially useful information, it has therefore been a…