Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
Project
CityNoise
CityNoise is a project led by Dr. Yu Zheng in Microsoft Research. The project aims to diagnose a city’s noise pollution with crowdsensing and ubiquitous data. It reveals the fine-grained noise situation throughout a city…
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Harry Shum: Faculty Summit 2014 Keynote
Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Technology and Research group, opens the Faculty Summit by highlighting major efforts at Microsoft Research. Two of significance are the integration of Microsoft Academic Search into Bing with…
Publication
Learning Fast Hand Pose Recognition
Project
Learning to be a depth camera for close-range human capture and interaction
We present a machine learning technique for estimating absolute, per-pixel depth using any conventional monocular 2D camera, with minor hardware modifications. Our approach targets close-range human capture and interaction where dense 3D estimation of hands…
Microsoft Research Blog
On Welsh Corgis, Computer Vision, and the Power of Deep Learning
Can you tell the difference between the two breeds of corgis? If you’re like many, you probably are barely even aware that such dogs exist, let alone the fact that there are two—and only two—kinds…
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Opening Keynote: Faculty Summit 2014
Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Technology and Research group, opens the Faculty Summit by highlighting major efforts at Microsoft Research. Two of significance are the integration of Microsoft Academic Search into Bing with…
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Introducing Project Adam: a new deep-learning system
Project Adam is a new deep-learning system modeled after the human brain that has greater image classification accuracy and is 50 times faster than other systems in the industry.
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Deep learning enables large-scale computer image recognition
Trishul Chilimbi, Partner Research Manager for Microsoft Research, discusses Project Adam, and how deep neural networks have enabled large-scale computer image recognition with astounding accuracy.
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CodaLab Demo
Watch a demonstration of CodaLab by Evelyne Viegas, director, Microsoft Research, and Isabella Guyon, president, Chalearn.
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Nikolai Tillmann Demonstrates the Code Hunt Game
Nikolai Tillmann, Development Lead, Tools for Software Engineers group, Microsoft, demonstrates Code Hunt, an educational coding game. http://codehunt.com http://www.microsoftfacultysummit.com
