Overview
The Interactive Visual Media group conducts state-of-the-art research in a variety of topics related to computer vision, computer graphics and computational photography. Our goal is to develop new applications for manipulation, reasoning and communication with visual media. Core areas of research include:
- 3D reconstruction and image segmentation
- object recognition
- image and video enhancement
Each year we hire exceptional PhD students for summer internships. Offers are generally made in December through March for the following summer. For more information please visit our intern webpage.
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- Blink – burst photography for Windows Phone
- Image Composite Editor (ICE) – panorama stitcher for Windows desktop
- Cliplets – cinemagraph creator for Windows 8 and Windows desktop
- HD View – panorama viewer for web browsers running on Windows
- HD View Utilities – command-line panorama generation tools for Windows
- Photosynth Export Plug-in for Photoshop – panorama export plug-in for Photoshop
- JPEG XR Export Plug-in for Photoshop (Windows) (mac) – image file format plug-in for Photoshop
- Microsoft COCO (Common Objects in Context) – image recognition and segmentation dataset
- 3D Video Data – images, depth maps, and calibration parameters
- Easy Camera Calibration Tool – flexible calibration tool for Windows
Other groups at Microsoft Research also conducting research in computer vision and computer graphics include:
- Computer Graphics Group (MSR Redmond)
- Multimedia, Interaction, and Communication (MSR Redmond)
- Machine Learning and Perception Group (MSR Cambridge)
- Visual Computing Group (MSR Asia)
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- Anandan (MSR India)
- Kentaro Toyama (MSR India)
- Zhengyou Zhang (MSR Redmond)
- Harry Shum (Live Search)
- Antonio Criminisi (MSR Cambridge)
- Sumit Basu (MSR Redmond)
- Nebojsa Jojic (MSR Redmond)
- Chuck Jacobs (MSR Redmond)
- David Salesin (University of Washington and Adobe)
- Steve Seitz (University of Washington)
- Shai Avidan (Adobe)
- Phil Torr (Oxford Brookes University)
- Ying Shan (Microsoft)
- Yaron Caspi (Weizmann)
- Chris Pal (University of Rochester)
- Matthew Brown (University of British Columbia)
- Simon Baker (NVIDIA)
- Piotr Dollar (Facebook)
- Wolf Kienzle (MSR Redmond)
People
People
Neel Joshi
Senior Principal Research Manager
Sudipta Sinha
Principal Researcher