Computer Vision
Enabling computers and devices to understand what they see.
Video
Designing Gaze Visualizations for Remote Collaboration and Learning
Technological advances are improving our ability to work and learn together, even when separated by distance. However, distributed environments lack many of the rich interpersonal cues that we take for granted in co-located collaboration. For…
Event
Swiss Joint Research Center Workshop 2018
The 5th annual workshop of the Microsoft-Swiss Joint Research Center (with ETH Zurich/EPFL) took place February 19 -20, 2018 at EPFL in Lausanne. This was the last workshop for the Swiss JRC in 2018. The…
Microsoft Research Blog
Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research
Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish…
Video
Cardiolens. “Pulse and Vital Sign Measurement in Mixed Reality using a HoloLens”
Cardiography, quantitative measurement of the functioning of the heart, traditionally requires customized obtrusive contact sensors. Using new methods photoplethysmography and ballistocardiography signals can be captured using ubiquitous sensors, such as webcams and accelerometers. However, these…
Video
Recent Results on Learning Filters and Style Transfer
In the first part of this talk, I will present recent results on learning image filters for low-level vision. We formulate numerous low-level vision problems (e.g., edge-preserving filtering and denoising) as recursive image filtering via…
Project
Cardi♥lens
Imagine if you could look at someone and see their heart beat? Surgeons could see whether a transplanted organ/tissue has blood flowing to it.· Physical trainers would be able to see if athletes are in…
Video
AirSim Camera Noise and Interference Simulation
The new feature in AirSim allows to simulate camera noise and interference patterns! You can set this up for any camera and any image type using settings.json.
Microsoft Research Blog
Typing in the Virtual Office Environment: Examining the Effects of Keyboard and Hand Representation in VR
Much of the hype around Virtual Reality, or VR, has focused on immersive gaming and entertainment, but the technology also has profound implications for enhancing the way we work. Imagine the perfect office environment: multiple…
