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Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024
Holistic motion-capture calibration technique without calibration, manual intervention or custom hardware; Research on AI agents for autonomous clouds; Automating proof-oriented program construction; One-to-many testing for natural language code generation.
Microsoft at CVPR 2024: Innovations in computer vision and AI research
Microsoft is proud to sponsor the 41st annual Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024), held from June 17 to June 21. This premier conference covers a broad spectrum of topics in the field, including 3D reconstruction and…
Research Focus: Week of February 19, 2024
In this issue: CaaSPER: vertical autoscaling algorithm dynamically maintains optimal CPU utilization; Improved scene landmark detection for camera localization runs faster, uses less storage; ESUS simplifies usability questionnaires for technical products and services.
HoloAssist: A multimodal dataset for next-gen AI copilots for the physical world
| Xin Wang and Neel Joshi
HoloAssist is a new multimodal dataset consisting of 166 hours of interactive task executions with 222 participants. Discover how it offers invaluable data to advance the capabilities of next-gen AI copilots for real-world tasks.
Awards | Association for Computing Machinery
Four Microsoft employees named 2022 ACM Fellow for their outstanding contributions that propel technology today
Ranveer Chandra, Marc Pollefeys, Gary Sullivan and Jaime Teevan, were named as one of the 57 ACM Fellows for 2022. Ranveer for contributions to software-defined wireless networking and applications to agriculture and rural broadband; Marc for contributions to geometric computer…
ECCV 2022 highlights: Advancing the foundations of mixed reality
Computer vision is one of the most remarkable developments to emerge from the field of computer science. It’s among the most rapidly growing areas in the technology landscape and has the potential to significantly impact the way people live and…
In the news | Inside It
Mixed-Reality-Brillen werden die Smartphones verdrängen
Mixed Reality kombiniert die physische Welt mit digitalen Objekten und wird im Geschäftsumfeld für Wartungsarbeiten und Bildung eingesetzt. Marktforscher sagen der Technologie eine grosse Karriere vorher. “In etwa 10 Jahren werden Mixed-Reality-Brillen die handelsüblichen Smartphones ersetzen”, erklärt auch ETH-Professor Marc…
Enabling interaction between mixed reality and robots via cloud-based localization
| Jeffrey Delmerico, Helen Oleynikova, Juan Nieto, and Marc Pollefeys
You are here. We see some representation of this every day—a red pin, a pulsating blue dot, a small graphic of an airplane. Without a point of reference on which to anchor it, though, here doesn’t help us make our…
In the news | MSPoweruser
Microsoft Research finds a way to enable natural interaction between humans and robots