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Path Guide: A New Approach to Indoor Navigation
By Yuanchao Shu, Associate Researcher, and Börje Karlsson, Sr. Research Dev Lead, Microsoft Research Mobile outdoor GPS navigation apps have proven to be lifesavers to countless people. With a smartphone in hand, it is easy to find your way to…
Background Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) is Microsoft’s fundamental research facility in the Asia Pacific region. By attracting the best talent from Asia and across the globe, it has grown into a world-class research laboratory with more than 220 researchers and…
Researchers develop new visual intelligence techniques to boost smart home security
By Kangping Liu, Senior Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Imagine when you leave your house or apartment that a smart home security system can automatically “look after” your home, giving you real-time notices about events happening at home, or…
At CNCC2016, the annual conference of China Computer Federation (CCF) in Taiyuan, the “Best Solution Award of 2016” was awarded to Microsoft Academic. We’re honored that the organizing committee and more than 5,000 attendees voted this solution the best of…
By Miran Lee, Senior Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Four researchers. Two institutions. One successful computer vision breakthrough. That’s the power of collaboration. The project, “Unified Depth Prediction and Intrinsic Image Decomposition from a Single Image via Joint…
The collaborative research program is a vital platform for research scientists and university professors to work together on advanced technologies with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) researchers. This year, the Microsoft Research Asia Outreach team is excited to welcome a total…
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Microsoft is teaching systems to read, answer and even ask questions
Microsoft researchers have already created technology that can do two difficult tasks about as well as a person: identify images and recognize words in a conversation. Now, the company’s leading AI experts are working on systems that can do something…
Partnership yields key breakthroughs in VR’s “grand challenge”
By Noboru Sean Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Asia The potential for virtual reality (VR) to upend industrial design, medicine, and other specialized fields has now vaulted the emerging field into the ranks of what the National Academy of…
Project PrivTree: Blurring your “where” for location privacy
By Winnie Cui, Senior Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia Data scientist, Anthony Tockar, used publicly available location data to show how celebrities can be tracked throughout New York City, while working on his Master’s Degree at Northwestern University. By cross-referencing…