Research Tools: code, datasets, & models
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.
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Microsoft Research Face SDK Beta for Windows Phone
The Microsoft Research Face SDK Beta for Windows Phone integrates the latest face technologies from Microsoft research teams. It provides state-of-the-art algorithms to process facial images such as face detection, alignment, tracking, and cartoon generation.
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Question-Generation Corpus
This corpus contains 2,250 candidate fill-in-the-blank questions and answers generated from sentences taken from 105 articles on Wikipedia’s listing of vital articles and popular pages, along with ratings of the question quality from multiple judges,…
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Microsoft Research Volume Rendering SDK
COM components which provides scalable implementation of real-time volume rendering intended for server-based GPUs. It could also be accessed from .Net clients using the provided Runtime Callable Wrapper (RCW)
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Microsoft Research Spelling-Correction Data
Strings including before-and-after spelling-correction pairs in English and Japanese, derived automatically by processing keystroke logs collected through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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Kinect Gesture Data Set
The Microsoft Research Cambridge-12 Kinect gesture data set consists of sequences of human movements, represented as body-part locations, and the associated gesture to be recognized by the system. The data set includes 594 sequences and…