Spatial AI Lab – Zurich

This image contains two panels. The panel on the left is titled “3D face reconstruction” and depicts two faces of real people and corresponding face models developed using the dense landmarks method with 703 facial landmarks. The panel on the right is titled “Benchmarking localization and mapping for AR” and shows the interior of a building with paths—or sequences—where people had captured the environment using Microsoft HoloLens.

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The Microsoft Spatial AI Lab Zurich mission is to enhance Microsoft Copilot with spatial perception and reasoning capabilities – enabling interactive conversation about physical spaces and their content – and to facilitate deployment of autonomous agents.

The lab is currently recruiting world-class, diverse expertise across computer vision, graphics, machine learning, robotics, interaction, and software engineering.

Marc Pollefeys, who leads the Spatial AI Lab, is also a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, the top technical school in continental Europe. Through this connection, Microsoft and ETH collaborate closely on cutting-edge spatial AI research.

“We are developing Spatial AI that better understands the physical world. Our goal is to develop spatially aware Copilots helping people solve problems in the real world and enabling robots to carry out physical tasks.”
Marc Pollefeys, Lab Director, Spatial AI Lab – Zurich