From blank canvas unfolds a scene: GAN-based model generates and modifies images based on continual linguistic instruction
| Shikhar Sharma
When people create, it’s not very often they achieve what they’re looking for on the first try. Creating—whether it be a painting, a paper, or a machine learning model—is a process that has a starting point from which new elements…
Machine teaching, LUIS and the democratization of custom AI with Dr. Riham Mansour
Machine learning is a powerful tool that enables conversational agents to provide general question-answer services. But in domains with more specific taxonomies – or simply for requests that are longer and more complicated than “Play Baby Shark” – custom conversational…
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ada by jenny sabin is an installation that translates people’s expressions into light and color
In collaboration with Microsoft Research, artist-in-residence Jenny Sabin has designed the "ada" installation - an architectural pavilion that incorporates AI to create a wholly immersive experience that transforms personal data into light and colors.
Awards | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Gary J. Sullivan, Rapporteur of the ITU-T Visual Coding Experts Group (VCEG), Congratulates JPEG Committee for Primetime Emmy Engineering Award®
The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), a longstanding partnership of the ITU-T and ISO/IEC standardization organizations, currently coordinated by the ITU-T Study Group 16 Visual Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Working Group 1, was recognized with…
Getting a better visual: RepPoints detect objects with greater accuracy through flexible and adaptive object modeling
| Han Hu and Steve Lin
Visual understanding tasks are typically centered on objects, such as human pose tracking in Microsoft Kinect and obstacle avoidance in autonomous driving. In the deep learning era, these tasks follow a paradigm where bounding boxes are localized in an image,…
In the news | Engadget
Microsoft’s latest VR experiment is a literal walk in the park
The VR system can adapt to changes to the route made by the walker, 'making it possible to transform a walk to the grocery store or to a bus stop, say, into a walk through Times Square in VR.'
In the news | Architect Magazine
Jenny Sabin Studio’s “Ada” Embeds AI in Architecture at Microsoft
To get a sense of the mood in Microsoft’s Research Building 99, just take a look at "Ada." Named for the polymath and programming visionary Ada Lovelace, the two-story tall architectural pavilion suspended in the atrium, at the tech company's campus…
In the news | Architect
Jenny Sabin Studio’s Ada Embeds AI in Architecture at Microsoft
Named for the polymath Ada Lovelace, the two-story pavilion at the tech company's headquarters is driven by human sentiment data.
In the news | Architect
Jenny Sabin Studio’s “Ada” Embeds AI in Architecture at Microsoft
To get a sense of the mood in Microsoft’s Research Building 99, just take a look at “Ada.” Named for the polymath and programming visionary Ada Lovelace, the two-story tall architectural pavilion suspended in the atrium, at the tech company’s…