Computer Vision
Enabling computers and devices to understand what they see.
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A Panorama of the Skies
A Panorama of the Skies is a prototype of an immersive audiovisual installation created in collaboration between Maja Petrić, an artist, and Hrvoje Benko, a human-computer interaction researcher at Microsoft Research. Together they have been…
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The Seattle Gigapixel ArtZoom
Having created gigapixel-sized (multi-billion pixel) images of cities, we found them fascinating to explore, but also surprisingly devoid of the most exciting part of a city, its people. Matt Uyttendaele, Michael Cohen, Cindy Ball, and…
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Virus
Virus is a conceptual art installation, created by artists Neel Joshi and Asta Roseway, that explores the idea of creating an organism that is fed by the people and activity in the building. The organism…
Microsoft Research Blog
Will machines one day be as creative as humans?
Recent methods in artificial intelligence enable AI software to produce rich and creative digital artifacts such as text and images painted from scratch. One technique used in creating these artifacts are generative adversarial networks (GANs).…
Podcast
New Microsoft Research Podcast invites you to log on, tune in and geek out
Microsoft Research Podcast Subscribe and listen on iTunes, android or email I’ve spent the better part of the last decade investigating the impact of digital media and technology on culture from an academic perspective. I…
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Remnance of Form
Remnance of Form is an interactive installation, by the artist Sang-won Leigh, that explores the dynamic tension between an object and its shadow. By fusing light, projection, and motion technologies, the shadow can now detach…
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Instance
In 2013, the Microsoft Research Artist in Residence program hosted James George to foster collaborations and cross-fertilization of ideas between the academic research and artistic creative coding communities.