Watch For

December 9, 2021

Learn how the Watch For platform leverages deep-learning, computer vision, and high efficiency AI infrastructure to identify interesting moments in video content. Presented by Weishung Liu, Senior Program Manager, from Microsoft Research, Redmond.

August 24, 2021

OctoML engineering collaborated with Microsoft Research on the “Watch For” project, an AI system for analyzing live video streams and identifying specified events within the streams. The collaboration sped up inference for the deep learning algorithms that analyze video streams,…

March 1, 2019

Watch For was inducted into The Garage Wall of Fame. Watch For is an AI system for analyzing live video stream content and surfacing the most interesting parts of a livestream in real-time.

February 13, 2019

It’s not enough to have brilliant researchers and a bunch of popular products. You’ve got to have a system–or several systems–for melding raw technology into experiences that make a difference for businesses and consumers.

February 2, 2019

On Monday, it will be five years since Satya Nadella was announced as Microsoft’s chief executive. Since taking charge he has turned the tech firm’s fortunes around, making it the most valuable company in the world for the first time…

February 2, 2019

Hypezone, which runs on Microsoft’s streaming site Mixer, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to examine streams coming into the site and pick the most interesting moments to show to people. It means fans of games like Fortnite can use the system…

August 23, 2017

Artificial intelligence eclipses cloud and mobile projects to win the day at Microsoft 2017 Hackathon. Watch For was the Grand Prize Winner at Microsoft’s One Week Hackathon 2017 among 18,000 participants. It also won the Garage Favorite Award at the Microsoft…