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Microsoft researchers develop assistive eye-tracking AI that works on any device
Gaze tracking has the potential to help people living with motor neuron diseases and disorders exert control over their environment and communicate with others. But estimating a person’s gaze isn’t a trivial task owing to variables including head pose, head…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft and partners aim to shrink the ‘data desert’ limiting accessible AI
AI-based tools like computer vision and voice interfaces have the potential to be life-changing for people with disabilities, but the truth is those AI models are usually built with very little data sourced from those people. Microsoft is working with…
In the news | The AI Blog
Shrinking the ‘data desert’: Inside efforts to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities
Saqib Shaikh says people who are blind, like himself, typically develop highly organized routines to keep track of their things — putting keys, wallets, canes and other essentials in the same places each time. But sometimes life gets messy: A…
In the news | PR Newswire
Team Gleason Partners With Microsoft on Eye Gaze Data Collection
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Team Gleason is excited to announce Project Insight, the creation of an open dataset of facial imagery of people living with ALS, to help advance innovation in computer vision and broaden the input…
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Expressive Pixels, la nueva app de Windows 10 de emojis animados
Parece que Microsoft sigue trabajando para ofrecer creatividad en diferentes ámbitos. Expressive Pixels es la última muestra de ello y nos encanta. Demuestra que los de Redmond están ofreciendo paulatinamente nuevas soluciones para cambiar la forma en la que trabajamos…
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Microsoft launches Expressive Pixels app to help you create animations
Microsoft has launched a new open source app for Windows 10 which has been designed to help users create and share animated content. The company says that the primary target for these animations is small, third-party LED panels but Microsoft…
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Microsoft Expressive Pixels 1.55
It is hard to find anything to compare Microsoft Expressive Pixels to – it really is quite a unique piece of software. The app is pleasingly easy to use, and the fact that there is such an active online community…
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Microsoft Research launches new Expressive Pixels platform
Microsoft Research has just announced a new Expressive Pixels platform dedicated to users who want to create and display animations on LED displays and other digital devices, including PCs. This Windows 10 project is the result of years of hard…
In the news | The Register
Here’s a sprite idea: PC pokers push pixels to LED displays with Microsoft’s new platform for non-verbal comms
Microsoft has dropped a beta of Expressive Pixels, a delightfully retro editor aimed at flinging animated visuals at LED displays. Designed for nonverbal communication, the software has both the worthy goal of improving accessibility as well as being an amusing toy.