Discover an index of datasets, SDKs, APIs and open-source tools developed by Microsoft researchers and shared with the global academic community below. These experimental technologies—available through Azure AI Foundry Labs (opens in new tab)—offer a glimpse into the future of AI innovation.
Microsoft Hands-Free Sound Jam
Microsoft Hands-Free Sound Jam, or “MSHFSJ”, is an eye-controlled music environment for electronic loop-based performance and composition. It is designed using familiar design paradigms found in commercial music production software, which have been adapted to…
Image Composite Editor (ICE)
Image Composite Editor (ICE) is an advanced panoramic image stitcher created by the Microsoft Research Computational Photography Group. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the app…
Soundscape
The Soundscape code is now available as open-source software, so that anyone can continue to build on, and find new ways to leverage, this novel feature set for the growing navigation opportunities in today’s world.…
Checked C Specification
This is a detailed specification for the Checked C extension that explains the design in-depth.
Checked C clang compiler
The Checked C extension to C is being implemented in a fork of the clang compiler. You can download the latest version of the Checked C compiler for Windows from this GitHub link.…
Longitudinal, daily, per-county activity periods of aggregated Twitter users
This data set consists of timelines of geo-located Twitter activity per U.S. county over ~4 years, from Jan 1, 2011 through April 30, 2014. Each county-timeline represents the amount of Twitter activity seen coming from…
Common Runtime for Applications (CRA)
Common Runtime for Applications (CRA) is a software layer (library) that makes it easy to create and deploy distributed dataflow-style applications on top of resource managers such as Kubernetes, YARN, and stand-alone cluster execution.