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Announcing Microsoft Research Open Data – Datasets by Microsoft Research now available in the cloud
Introducing Microsoft Research Open Data—a new data repository in the cloud dedicated to facilitating collaboration across the global research community.
Microsoft Research Dissertation Grants: Broadening the PhD pipeline to increase innovation
| Meredith Ringel Morris
Research shows that diverse teams are more productive teams. Diversity, particularly in the area of computing research, means including unique perspectives that otherwise might not have a voice, fueling innovation. These are some of the key reasons that Microsoft is…
Microsoft HoloLens facilitates computer vision research by providing access to raw image sensor streams with Research Mode
| Marc Pollefeys
Microsoft HoloLens is the world’s first self-contained holographic computer. Remarkably, in Research Mode, available in the newest release of Windows 10 for HoloLens, it’s also a potent computer vision research device. Application code can not only access video and audio…
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Microsoft Soundscape: Lighting up the world with sound
A few years ago, when my daughter was only 5, we walked down the street after going to see a play at the Angel Theatre in London, looking for a place to get a bite. Dad and Kiddo, a normal…
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Mapping the World With Sound
Microsoft Soundscape encourages you to wander. Unlike step-by-step navigation tools, the app never tells you where to go or what to do. In the same way the smell of baking bread might help you discover a nearby café, it offers…
Using transfer learning to address label noise for large-scale image classification
| Lei Zhang and Kuang-Huei Lee
In this post, we introduce how to use transfer learning to address label noise for large-scale image classification tasks. We’ll avoid describing the approach using too much math. If you are interested in the deeper theory behind this approach, please…
Victor Bahl, distinguished scientist and director of mobile and networking research at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington, received the 2018 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (opens in new tab) for contributions to broadband wireless systems. His contributions include the…
Believing is seeing: Insightful research illuminates the newly possible in the realm of natural and synthetic images
A pair of groundbreaking papers in computer vision open new vistas on possibilities in the realms of creating very real-looking natural images and synthesizing realistic, identity-preserving facial images. In CVAE-GAN: Fine-Grained Image Generation through Asymmetric Training, presented this past October…
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This economist wants to abolish private property using blockchain
Some months ago, Glen Weyl – a principal researcher at Microsoft Research with a liking for nineteenth-century political economics – noticed that someone had been tweeting about him. A guy called Vitalik Buterin had posted something on Weyl’s proposal for…