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Mapping the World With Sound
Microsoft Soundscape encourages you to wander. Unlike step-by-step navigation tools, the app never tells you where to go or what to do. In the same way the smell of baking bread might help you discover a nearby café, it offers…
Using transfer learning to address label noise for large-scale image classification
| Lei Zhang and Kuang-Huei Lee
In this post, we introduce how to use transfer learning to address label noise for large-scale image classification tasks. We’ll avoid describing the approach using too much math. If you are interested in the deeper theory behind this approach, please…
Victor Bahl, distinguished scientist and director of mobile and networking research at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington, received the 2018 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for contributions to broadband wireless systems. His contributions include the development of Wi-Fi hotspots,…
Believing is seeing: Insightful research illuminates the newly possible in the realm of natural and synthetic images
A pair of groundbreaking papers in computer vision open new vistas on possibilities in the realms of creating very real-looking natural images and synthesizing realistic, identity-preserving facial images. In CVAE-GAN: Fine-Grained Image Generation through Asymmetric Training, presented this past October…
In the news | WIRED
This economist wants to abolish private property using blockchain
Some months ago, Glen Weyl – a principal researcher at Microsoft Research with a liking for nineteenth-century political economics – noticed that someone had been tweeting about him. A guy called Vitalik Buterin had posted something on Weyl’s proposal for…
Teaching computers to see with Dr. Gang Hua
Episode 28, June 13, 2018 - Dr. Hua talks about how the latest advances in AI and machine learning are making big improvements on image recognition, video understanding and even the arts. He also explains the distributed ensemble approach to…
In the news | Channel 9
Better Understanding and Addressing Your Players’ Negative Online Gaming Experiences
Melissa Boone, Tracey Fuller, Jerome Hagen of Xbox Research share their learnings about the psychological, situational, and structural reasons behind why bad experiences are underreported.
Microsoft Unveils FASTER – a key-value store for large state management
At SIGMOD 2018, a team from Microsoft Research will be presenting a new embedded key-value store called FASTER, described in their paper “FASTER: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates”. As its name suggests, FASTER makes a major leap forward…
In the news | Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock MP on InnerEye in the NHS
All around us, a new generation of technology is changing all of our lives. From the mundane but useful, like the ubiquity of satnavs that stop family arguments and warn us of traffic jams, to the profound and extraordinary, like…