Computer Vision
Enabling computers and devices to understand what they see.
Microsoft Research Blog
ACAV100M: Scaling up self-supervised audio-visual learning with automatically curated internet videos
The natural association between visual observations and their corresponding sounds has exhibited powerful self-supervision signals for learning video representations, which makes the ever-growing amount of online video an attractive data source for self-supervised learning. However,…
Project
SmartKC: A Smartphone-based Corneal Topographer
Keratoconus is a severe eye disease affecting the cornea (the clear, dome-shaped outer surface of the eye), causing it to become thin and develop a conical bulge. If not treated in time, keratoconus can lead…
Microsoft Research Blog
Announcing the ORBIT dataset: Advancing real-world few-shot learning using teachable object recognition
Object recognition systems have made spectacular advances in recent years, but they rely on training datasets with thousands of high-quality, labelled examples per object category. Learning new objects from only a few examples could open…
Event
Microsoft Research Summit 2021
The inaugural Microsoft Research Summit brought together science and technology leaders from around the world, contributing over 190 presentations about research projects driving advances across the sciences and pushing the limits of technology toward achieving…
Publication
NICE: Neural Image Commenting with Empathy
Microsoft Research Blog
First ever Microsoft Research Summit explores science and technology aimed at big challenges
For 30 years, Microsoft Research has brought together great minds from around the world to take on the biggest research challenges facing society. As we enter our fourth decade, the need for collaborative research—and the…
