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Directional Sources and Listeners in Interactive Sound Propagation using Reciprocal Wave Field Coding

Chakravarty R. Alla Chaitanya, Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Keith Godin, Zechen Zhang, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, John Snyder

ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020) | July 2020, Vol 39(4)

(Equal contribution from first and second listed authors)

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A high fidelity synthetic face framework for computer vision

Tadas Baltrusaitis, Erroll Wood, Virginia Estellers, Charlie Hewitt, Sebastian Dziadzio, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tom Cashman, Matthew Johnson, Jamie Shotton

MSR-TR-2020-24 | July 2020

Published by Microsoft

Podcast

Accessible systems for sign language computation with Dr. Danielle Bragg

June 17, 2020

Many computer science researchers set their sights on building general AI technologies that could impact hundreds of millions – or even billions – of people. But Dr. Danielle Bragg, a senior researcher at MSR’s New…

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Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on the Joint Call for Proposals on Video Compression With Capability Beyond HEVC

Jill M. Boyce, Jianle Chen, Jens-Rainer Ohm, Gary J. Sullivan, Thomas Wiegand, Yan Ye

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology | May 2020, Vol 30(5): pp. 1203-1207

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Multimodal Active Speaker Detection and Virtual Cinematography for Video Conferencing

Ross Cutler, Ramin Mehran, Sam Johnson, Cha Zhang, Adam Kirk, Oliver Whyte, Adarsh Kowdle

2020 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | May 2020

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The Joint Exploration Model (JEM) for Video Compression With Capability Beyond HEVC

Jianle Chen, Marta Karczewicz, Yu-Wen Huang, Kiho Choi, Jens-Rainer Ohm, Gary J. Sullivan

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology | April 2020, Vol 30(5): pp. 1208-1225

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General Video Coding Technology in Responses to the Joint Call for Proposals on Video Compression With Capability Beyond HEVC

Benjamin Bross, Kenneth Andersson, Max Blaser, Virginie Drugeon, Seung-Hwan Kim, Jani Lainema, Jingya Li, Shan Liu, Jens-Rainer Ohm, Gary J. Sullivan, Ruoyang Yu

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology | April 2020, Vol 30(5): pp. 1226-1240

Microsoft Research Blog

Microsoft Rocketbox avatar library now available for research and academic use

March 30, 2020 | Mar Gonzalez Franco, Eyal Ofek

Virtual reality technology has become popular in recent years thanks to the availability of more affordable systems. Today, we can put on a head-mounted display and find ourselves in a completely different world, a virtual…

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Microsoft Rocketbox avatar library

March 27, 2020 | Mar Gonzalez Franco

The Microsoft Rocketbox Avatar library consists of 115 characters and avatars fully rigged and with high definition that was developed over the course of 10 years. The diversity of the characters and the quality of…

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Designing Computer Vision Algorithms to Describe the Visual World to People Who Are Blind or Low Vision

March 26, 2020 | Danna Gurari, Ed Cutrell

A common goal in computer vision research is to build machines that can replicate the human vision system (for example, detect an object or scene category, describe an object or scene, or locate an object).…

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