Interactive Visual Media

Established: March 6, 2012

What Are Cliplets?      Microsoft Research Cliplets is an interactive app that uses semi-automated methods to give users the power to create "Cliplets" - a type of imagery that sits between stills and video from handheld videos. The app provides a creative lens one can use to focus on important aspects of a moment by mixing static and dynamic elements from a video clip. Please see the BLINK and BLINK Cliplets page for more information about the…

Established: April 28, 2009

We aim to enable people with mobile devices to receive continuously updated information about their surroundings by pointing a camera. The system is able to use image recognition to augment what a person sees on the screen with 2D or 3D graphics that track their environment in real time. We demonstrate this using a treasure hunt game which guides the user along a previously authored path indoors or…

Established: December 3, 2008

What is Image Composite Editor? Image Composite Editor (ICE) is an advanced panoramic image stitcher created by the Microsoft Research Interactive Visual Media Group. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the app creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. ICE can also create a panorama from a panning video, including stop-motion action overlaid on the background. Finished panoramas can be shared with friends…

Established: December 2, 1999

We propose a flexible new technique to easily calibrate a camera. It is well suited for use without specialized knowledge of 3D geometry or computer vision. The technique only requires the camera to observe a planar pattern shown at a few (at least two) different orientations. Either the camera or the planar pattern can be freely moved. The motion need not be known. Radial lens distortion is modeled. The proposed procedure consists of a closed-form…