刷新神经网络新深度：ImageNet计算机视觉挑战赛微软中国研究员夺冠
世界上最好计算机视觉系统有多精确？就在美国东部时间12月10日上午9时，ImageNet计算机视觉识别挑战赛结果揭晓 (opens in new tab)——微软亚洲研究院视觉计算组的研究员们凭借深层神经网络技术的最新突破，以绝对优势获得图像分类、图像定位以及图像检测全部三个主要项目的冠军。同一时刻，他们在另一项图像识别挑战赛MS COCO（Microsoft Common Objects in...
Convex optimization highlights ICCV program session
By John Kaiser, Research News Convex optimization, prized for its efficiency and utility in solving small and medium-size problems across multiple disciplines, could soon be extended to handle much larger problems and tasks, such as those found in image and…
IEEE Fellow Sengupta transformed cloud computing, data storage, network routing
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft For Sudipta Sengupta, Microsoft Research is a magical place. "At Microsoft and the places I was at previously, my work has often been in collaboration with researchers and engineers, so I have benefitted a…
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Sudipta Sengupta named an IEEE Fellow
Sudipta Sengupta named IEEE Fellow for contributions to network design, routing and applications to Internet backbone, data centers, and peer-to-peer systems.
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Microsoft researchers win ImageNet computer vision challenge
Microsoft researchers on Thursday announced a major advance in technology designed to identify the objects in a photograph or video, showcasing a system whose accuracy meets and sometimes exceeds human-level performance. Microsoft’s new approach to recognizing images also took first…
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Microsoft, IBM Eye Big Business Opportunity in China’s Air Pollution
Advances in cognitive computing—machines programmed to improve modeling on their own—allow more sophisticated forecasting software to provide predictions for the air quality index.
ACM names five Microsoft researchers as Fellows, Distinguished Scientists
By George Thomas Jr., Writer, Microsoft Cynthia Dwork, Mary Czerwinski and Sriram Rajamani Three Microsoft researchers have been honored as Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery for their significant contributions to the development and application of computing across multiple…
Sriram Rajamani has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for significant contributions to software analysis and defect detection. Read more >
Cynthia Dwork has been honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her significant contributions to the science of database privacy, cryptography, and distributed computing. Read more >