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We are excited to be a gold sponsor of Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2017, the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer…

Event

Microsoft Research @ SPLASH 2017

October 22, 2017 – October 27, 2017 | Vancouver, Canada

We are excited to be participating in SPLASH 2017, the ACM SIGPLAN conference that embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and…

Publication

Fast Lossless Depth Image Compression

Andrew D. Wilson

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS ’17) | October 2017

Project

On-device ML for Object and Activity Detection

To process data locally, we have accelerated ML computations via ASICs that incorporate efficient pipelining and parallelism techniques. We have also compressed ML models by scaling their bit-precision values.

Publication

Advances in deep learning approaches for image tagging

Jianlong Fu, Yong Rui

APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing | October 2017

Publication

Symmetry-Aware Façade Parsing with Occlusions

Andrea Cohen, Martin Ralf Oswald, Yanxi Liu, Marc Pollefeys

2017 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) | October 2017

Microsoft Research Blog

Primetime Engineering Emmy® Award goes to HEVC, a key technology behind ultra-high definition TV

September 29, 2017

A technology standard that helps deliver ultra-high definition video to everything from smartphones to stadium displays will receive an Emmy® Award on October 25. The 2017 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, from the Academy of Television…