Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
Over the past 30 years, Microsoft Research has undergone a shift in how it approaches innovation, broadening its mission to include not only advancing the state of computing but also using technology to tackle some…
Azure AI milestone: New foundation model Florence v1.0 advances state of the art, topping popular computer vision leaderboards
The Project Florence Team Florence v1.0—along with recent milestones in Neural Text-to-Speech and question answering—is part of a larger Azure AI (opens in new tab)mission to provide relevant, meaningful AI solutions and services that work…
Developer Tech Minutes: Watch For
The Watch For team at Microsoft has developed an AI system that can identify interesting events in videos in near real-time. Learn how this platform pushes the boundaries of efficient, programmable, and scalable AI to…
CoNeRF: Controllable Neural Radiance Fields
Landcover Orinoquia
AI for Earth project, in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society Colombia (WCS Colombia (opens in new tab)) to create up-to-date land cover maps of the Orinoquía (opens in new tab) region in Colombia. We used…
Leprosy Skin Lesion AI Analysis
This project aims to predict the probability of leprosy using skin lesion images and clinical data (as compared to the diagnosis of dermatologists). This model is provided for research and development use only. The model…