Ecology and environment

Publication

Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-shot Animal Species Recognition in Camera Trap Images

Zalan Fabian, Zhongqi Miao, Chunyuan Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Andrés Hernández, Andrés Montes-Rojas, Rafael Escucha, Laura Siabatto, Andrés Link, Pablo Arbeláez, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

November 2023

Project

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of October 23, 2023

October 25, 2023

In this issue: Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model; Can vine copulas explain complex relationships of weather variables; New system accelerates the adaptive training process; Structural inequalities and relational labor in the influencer industry.

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of October 9, 2023

October 11, 2023 | Lester Mackey

Research Focus: Principal researcher Lester Mackey recognized for pioneering statistical and ML techniques; Pareto frontiers in neural feature learning; structural inequality in the influencer industry; new research on cardinality estimation.

Publication

Climate mitigation potentials of teleworking are sensitive to changes in lifestyle and workplace rather than ICT usage

Yanqiu Tao, Longqi Yang, Sonia Jaffe, Fereshteh Amini, Peter Bergen, Brent Hecht, Fengqi You

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | September 2023, Vol 120

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Continental United States Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Dataset

We present a dataset of distributed energy resources (DERs) for the contiguous U.S. using only publicly available data. The primary focus of the dataset is on distribution-level utility-scale and distributed solar and storage, given their…

GitHub Publication

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