In the news | Data & Policy Blog
Forecasting Food Insecurity Levels in Near Real-Time Using a Machine Learning Framework
In this blog, Shahrzad Gholami and colleagues introduce their research recently published in Data & Policy: which demonstrated, in a case study in Malawi, the feasibility and accuracy of an early warning system for food insecurity.
Research Focus: Week of October 24, 2022
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Microsoft is thrilled to announce the 2022 Microsoft Research Global PhD Fellows…
文档基础模型引领文档智能走向多模态大一统
编者按：自2019年以来，微软亚洲研究院在文档智能领域进行了诸多探索，开发出一系列多模态任务的文档基础模型 (Document Foundation Model)，包括 LayoutLM (v1、v2、v3) 、LayoutXLM、MarkupLM 等。这些模型在诸如表单、收据、发票、报告等视觉富文本文档数据集上都取得了优异的表现，获得了学术界和产业界的广泛认可，并已应用在包括 Azure For...
PACT paper (opens in new tab) | Video (opens in new tab)| Github code (opens in new tab) Recent advances in machine learning architectures have induced a paradigm shift from task-specific models towards large general-purpose networks. For instance, in the…
ECCV 2022 highlights: Advancing the foundations of mixed reality
Computer vision is one of the most remarkable developments to emerge from the field of computer science. It’s among the most rapidly growing areas in the technology landscape and has the potential to significantly impact the way people live and…
In the news | National Institute of Standards and Technology
U.S. Department of Commerce appoints Ranveer Chandra to the new Internet of Things Advisory Board
The U.S. Department of Commerce has appointed 16 experts, including Dr. Ranveer Chandra, for the new Internet of Things Advisory Board (IoTAB), to advise the Internet of Things Federal Working Group. The board represents a broad range of disciplines from…
After fierce competition, 12 outstanding PhD students from the Asia-Pacific region were finally awarded the "Microsoft Research Asia Fellow" in 2022, and another 21 PhD students were nominated. The 2022 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship program attracted nearly two hundreds outstanding…
In the news | DeepLearning.AI
Smarts for Farms
The next green revolution may be happening in the server room. What’s new: Microsoft open-sourced AI tools designed to help farmers cut costs and improve yields. How it works: FarmVibes-AI includes systems that analyze overhead imagery and sensor data to…
In the news | Pitchfork
The Global Music Vault Wants to Safeguard the World’s Songs—But Who Decides What’s Preserved?
Halfway between Norway and the North Pole lies Svalbard, a demilitarized archipelago sheathed in glacial ice. The remote territory is home to less than 3,000 people, some reindeer and polar bears, and the Arctic World Archive—a collection of digitized historical documents,…