{"id":605931,"date":"2019-09-13T13:06:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=605931"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:56:09","slug":"mixed-reality-and-ai-zurich-lab-launch","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/mixed-reality-and-ai-zurich-lab-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Reality and AI Zurich Lab Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

This was an invite-only event at the Mixed Reality & AI Zurich Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contact us:<\/strong> For further information regarding this event please contact us via\u00a0swissjrc@microsoft.com<\/a>.Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft scientists as well as collaborators from ETH Zurich, EPFL, and Inria presented talks and demos at the scientific launch of the Mixed Reality & AI Zurich Lab (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. Watch the video of special guest speaker, Alex Kipman, Inventor & Technical Fellow at Microsoft, who discusses the science and technology behind the HoloLens in his talk \u201cHoloLens 2: Unpacked (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Computer vision is a key enabling technology for Mixed Reality and a core part of Artificial Intelligence. Computer Vision allows robots and devices like the HoloLens to localise themselves and map their surroundings. These capabilities are critical to provide useful contextual information and facilitate effective collaboration between humans and machines.<\/p>\n

With his team of scientists from all around the world, Prof. Marc Pollefeys, Head of the Institute for Visual Computing of the Dept. of Computer Science of ETH Zurich, brings together research and practical development. With this lab and the close collaboration with ETH Zurich, Microsoft Switzerland helps ensure that the innovations that are created in Switzerland are carried out into the world and applied in products and services that empower individuals and organizations around the world to achieve more.Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thursday, 3 October 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time (CEST) <\/strong><\/td>\n Session <\/strong><\/td>\n Speaker <\/strong><\/td>\n Location <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00 \u2013 11:00<\/td>\nETH Global Lecture: HoloLens 2 – Unpacked (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/td>\nAlex Kipman, Microsoft<\/td>\nETH Hauptgeb\u00e4ude (Audimax)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00 \u2013 11:45<\/td>\nRefreshments and networking<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45 \u2013 12:00<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/td>\nTransition to Zunfthaus zur Schmiden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 \u2013 13:00<\/td>\nArrival, lunch and registration<\/td>\n<\/td>\nZunfthaus zur Schmiden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:00 \u2013 13:10<\/td>\nWelcome<\/td>\nAlex Kipman, Microsoft<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:10 \u2013 13:30<\/td>\nKickoff and Lab Vision<\/td>\nMarc Pollefeys<\/a>, Microsoft\/ETH Zurich<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:30 \u2013 13:50<\/td>\nCrowd-Sourced Image-Based 3D Reconstruction<\/a><\/td>\nJohannes Sch\u00f6nberger<\/a>, Microsoft<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:50 \u2013 14:10<\/td>\nLifelong Mapping<\/td>\nLukas Schmid, ETH Zurich<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:10 \u2013 14:30<\/td>\nLearning Feature Representations for Localization and Mapping<\/a><\/td>\nMihai Dusmanu, ETH Zurich<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:30 \u2013 14:50<\/td>\nEvent Cameras<\/a><\/td>\nDavide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:50 \u2013 15:10<\/td>\nEye Tracking \u2013 the Key to Computational Understanding of Human Behavior and Cognition<\/a><\/td>\nMirko Meboldt, ETH Zurich<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:10 \u2013 15:40<\/td>\nAfternoon break<\/td>\nGroup picture<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:40 \u2013 16:00<\/td>\nMedical Augmented Reality: State of the Art, Requirements and Challenges<\/a><\/td>\nNassir Navab, TU Munich, JHU and Balgrist Hospital<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:00 \u2013 16:20<\/td>\nPrivacy Preserving Mixed Reality Cloud<\/td>\nPablo Speciale<\/a>, Microsoft<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:20 \u2013 16:40<\/td>\nAdaptive Mesh Texture for Multi-View Appearance Modeling<\/a><\/td>\nEdmond Boyer, Inria<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:40 \u2013 17:00<\/td>\nSemantic 3D Reconstruction<\/a><\/td>\nMartin Oswald, ETH Zurich<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:00 \u2013 18:00<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/td>\nTransition to Talstrasse 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18:00 \u2013 21:00<\/td>\nAp\u00e9ro Riche and Demos at the new MR&AI Zurich Lab<\/td>\n<\/td>\nTalstrasse 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Friday, 4 October 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time (CEST) <\/strong><\/td>\n Session <\/strong><\/td>\n Speaker <\/strong><\/td>\n Location <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
08:30 \u2013 09:00<\/td>\nArrival and coffee<\/td>\n<\/td>\nZunfthaus zur Schmiden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:00 \u2013 09:30<\/td>\nAt the Heart of the AI Revolution<\/td>\nChristopher Bishop<\/a>, Microsoft<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:30 \u2013 09:50<\/td>\nLearning to See and Generate people<\/a><\/td>\nSiyu Tang, MPI<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:50 \u2013 10:10<\/td>\nLearning Joint Reconstruction of Hands and Manipulated Objects<\/a><\/td>\nYana Hasson, INRIA\/Microsoft<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:10 \u2013 10:30<\/td>\nHands Segmentation with Recurrent U-Net<\/a><\/td>\nWei Wang, EPFL<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 \u2013 10:50<\/td>\nH+O: Unified Egocentric Recognition of 3D Hand-Object Poses and Interactions<\/a><\/td>\nBu\u011fra Tekin<\/a>, Microsoft<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:50 \u2013 11:20<\/td>\nMorning break<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:20 \u2013 11:40<\/td>\nMaking Synthetic Training Data with Digital Humans<\/a><\/td>\nErroll Wood, Microsoft<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:40 \u2013 12:00<\/td>\nImmersive Teleoperation and Task Autocompletion<\/a><\/td>\nRoi Poranne, ETH Zurich<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 \u2013 12:20<\/td>\nStepping Outside the Comfort Zone towards World-Scale Virtual Reality<\/a><\/td>\nChristian Holz, ETH Zurich<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:20 \u2013 12:40<\/td>\nMixed Reality Trompe L\u2019oiel for Fun and Profit<\/a><\/td>\nAndy Wilson<\/a>, Microsoft<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:40 \u2013 13:00<\/td>\nLunch and depart<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:00 \u2013 14:00<\/td>\nWrap-up \/ Conclusions<\/td>\nMarc Pollefeys<\/a>, Microsoft\/ETH Zurich<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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