Graphics and multimedia
From Drug Wars to 3-D Silhouettes
When violence related to Mexico’s drug war erupted in 2006, Andrés Monroy-Hernández kept in close touch with friends and relatives in the north of the country, where he is from and where much of the…
Interactively Stylizing Camera Motion
Movie directors and cinematographers impart style onto video using techniques that are learned through years of experience: camera movement, framing, color, lighting, etc. Without this experience and expensive equipment, it is very difficult to control…
Interactively Stylizing Camera Motion
Eye-Gaze Tracking for Improved Natural User Interaction
We develop novel eye-gaze tracking technologies in order to make eye-gaze tracking technology ubiquitously available for improved natural user interaction (NUI). In particular, we investigate two approaches: Active IR lighting: We investigate the possibility…
MSR Image Recognition Challenge (IRC)
Microsoft Research is happy to continue hosting this series of Image Recognition (Retrieval) Grand Challenges. Do you have what it takes to build the best image recognition system? Enter these MSR Image Recognition Challenges to…
Office Lens Is a Snap
The moment mobile-phone manufacturers added cameras to their devices, they stopped being just mobile phones. Not only have lightweight phone cameras made casual photography easy and spontaneous, they also have changed the way we record…