ChatPainter: Improving text-to-image generation by using dialogue
Generating realistic images from a text description is a challenging task for a bot. A solution to this task has potential applications in the video game and image editing industries, among many others. Recently, researchers at Microsoft and elsewhere have…
Manipulating Space and Time in Mixed Reality
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality each has distinct advantages when it comes to bringing digital capabilities into our everyday lives. Everything users see, including the environment and every object can be controlled and changed. This also means that what users…
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AI and cargo shipping: Full speed ahead for global maritime trade
As the old saying goes: Time is money. And, that’s never been truer than in the competitive world of international shipping, where unforeseen delays or miscalculations can cost millions of dollars.
WWW Conference Analytics
The data in the Microsoft Academic Graph makes it possible to gain analytic insights about any of the entities in our knowledge graph: fields of study, authors, author affiliations, journals, and conferences. In this series, we present analytic insights about…
Awards | OPTiC: Opportunistic Graph Processing in Multi-Tenant Clusters
IC2E 2018 Best Paper Award
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Uncanny Valley and the Sense of Touch
The notion of an “uncanny valley” is well known in robotics[1]. This is when increasing the realism of a robot’s human-like appearance can lead to feelings of unease—or even revulsion—as a robot becomes more and more (but never quite fully)…
Getting good VIBEs from your computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski
Episode 20, April 18, 2018 - In a world where humans are increasingly interacting with AI systems, Dr. Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research, believes emotions may be fundamental to our interactions with machines. And through…
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Getting good VIBEs from your computer with Dr. Mary Czerwinski
Emotions are fundamental to human interaction, but in a world where humans are increasingly interacting with AI systems, Dr. Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager of the Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment group at Microsoft Research, believes…
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Why touch can be such a creepy sensation in VR
There may be such a thing as 'too realistic' when it comes to virtual touch.