Many computer vision applications require the points on an object in one image to be matched with their corresponding object points in another image, such as a car door handle matched to a different model of car’s door handle.
Awards | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award in 2017 to the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), an engineering experts' group led by co-chairs Gary J. Sullivan of Microsoft and Jens-Rainer Ohm of…
On August 15, the sixth annual Microsoft Beauty of Programming Challenge — a programming competition for college students in Asia — came to a close. This year's theme focused on artificial intelligence question and answer (Q&A) projects. The challenge asked…
In the news | VRScout
To build truly believable virtual environments, we need to believe our ears as much as our eyes.
| Peli de Halleux
A few years ago, my group in Microsoft’s research organization began to experiment with tools that make it possible for kids to learn how to code in the context of Minecraft, the wildly popular game where players build fantastical…
| Kenji Takeda
Alan Turing asked the question “can machines think?” in 1950 and it still intrigues us today. At The Alan Turing Institute, the United Kingdom’s national institute for data science in London, more than 150 researchers are pursuing this question by…
We are excited to launch a new feature today: Cite. You will notice the "Cite" link under each paper on the search results page, and on each paper detail page. Clicking it enables you to copy the citation using three…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Microsoft is delivering the world's first fully neural on device translations in the Microsoft Translator app for Android, customized for the Huawei Mate 10 series.
In the news | Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Today, with the launch of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft is taking a big step forward on our journey to make our products more accessible and empower people with disabilities. Our teams have been working tirelessly to build…