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Alt text that informs: Meeting the needs of people who are blind or low vision
Image descriptions are vital to making digital content fully accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. However, as past research has shown, content authors often leave out these descriptions—also known as “alternative…
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Extending the reach of care: Tending to patients using chat app technology
According to a report released by World Bank and the World Health Organization in 2017, there are nearly 4 billion people worldwide, that’s half of the world population, who lack access to essential healthcare. Although…
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Microsoft Rocketbox avatar library now available for research and academic use
Virtual reality technology has become popular in recent years thanks to the availability of more affordable systems. Today, we can put on a head-mounted display and find ourselves in a completely different world, a virtual…
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Office of Applied Research
The Office of Applied Research is helping to ensure that Microsoft is doing cutting edge research towards our core product interests, supporting the applied research community within Microsoft, and building bridges between product groups and…
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Microsoft Rocketbox avatar library
The Microsoft Rocketbox Avatar library consists of 115 characters and avatars fully rigged and with high definition that was developed over the course of 10 years. The diversity of the characters and the quality of…
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Designing Computer Vision Algorithms to Describe the Visual World to People Who Are Blind or Low Vision
A common goal in computer vision research is to build machines that can replicate the human vision system (for example, detect an object or scene category, describe an object or scene, or locate an object).…
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Designing computer vision algorithms to describe the visual world to people who are blind or low vision webinar
In this webinar with Dr. Danna Gurari, Assistant Professor in the School of Information at University of Texas at Austin, and Dr. Ed Cutrell, Senior Principal Researcher in the Microsoft Research Ability Group, learn how…
