Real-time RGB-D 3D scanning has become widely used to progressively scan objects or scenes with a hand-held RGB-D camera, such as Microsoft Kinect. The depth stream from the camera is accumulated to a voxel grid that contains surface distance. The…
Awards | 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Kori Inkpen receives 2020 Lasting impact Award at CSCW
The Lasting Impact Award goes to a paper that is at least 10 years old and has had an impact on CSCW as a field. Nominations are taken from the community, and the decision is made by a committee of…
Novel object captioning surpasses human performance on benchmarks
| Kevin Lin, Xiaowei Hu, and Lijuan Wang
Consider for a moment what it takes to visually identify and describe something to another person. Now imagine that the other person can’t see the object or image, so every detail matters. How do you decide what information is important…
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Microsoft says its AI can describe images ‘as well as people do’
It’s a new milestone for AI that could genuinely help the visually impaired. Describing an image accurately, and not just like a clueless robot, has long been the goal of AI.
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Apps can now narrate what they see in the world as well as people do
How would you leverage technology capable of generating natural language image descriptions that are, in many cases, just as good or better than what a human could produce? What if that capability is just one cloud API call away? Would…
In the news | The AI Blog
What’s that? Microsoft’s latest breakthrough, now in Azure AI, describes images as well as people do
Microsoft researchers have built an artificial intelligence system that can generate captions for images that are, in many cases, more accurate than the descriptions people write. The breakthrough in a benchmark challenge is a milestone in Microsoft’s push to make…
In the news | The Verge
Microsoft’s new image-captioning AI will help accessibility in Word, Outlook, and beyond
Microsoft has developed a new image-captioning algorithm that exceeds human accuracy in certain limited tests. The AI system has been used to update the company’s assistant app for the visually impaired, Seeing AI, and will soon be incorporated into other…
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Microsoft explains how it improved automatic image captioning in Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft today launched a new computer vision service it claims can generate image captions that are, in some cases, more accurate than human-written descriptions. The company calls the service, which is available as part of Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision,…
When doing user research on security and compliance experiences in Microsoft Office, we’ve uncovered learnings about how to design better experiences in this space. Through focus groups, usability studies, and customer conversations, we have been hearing themes about the top…