Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
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The Kinect’s Body Part Recognition Algorithm on an FPGA
The Microsoft Kinect has received little to no attention by the hardware community, specifically those interested in reconfigurable hardware via field-programmable gate-arrays (FGPAs). This is likely due to both the lack of interfaces and to…
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Audio and Acoustics Research Group
The Audio and Acoustics group conducts research in audio processing and speech enhancement, 3D audio perception and technologies, devices for audio capture and rendering, array processing, information extraction from audio signals.
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Coding at the Speed of Touch
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Cryptography Resilient to Physical Attacks
Yael Kalai, researcher at Microsoft Research New England discusses how, with all the progress made in the field of cryptography, security continues to be breached. Complicating matters are hackers, who are becoming increasingly sophisticated, almost…
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Changing World of Modern Science
Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research Connections, presents the emergence of a Fourth Paradigm of research. The evolution of research has progressed though experimental science, theoretical science, and computational science to present-day data-intensive…
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Old World, NUI World: The Future of Digital Interaction
Shahram Izadi, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Jamie Shotton and Tom Rodden discuss and demonstrate Natural User Interfaces during the 20th Anniversary event in Cambridge, UK.
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Researchers Highlight Collaborations with Kinect for Xbox 360
Microsoft researchers around the globe highlight research contributions to Kinect for Xbox 360 and collaborations with the team that developed the product.
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Kinect Identity: Player recognition in Xbox
Introducing how Kinect performs player identity recognition in Xbox, what we call “Kinect Identity.” A primary challenge in developing a natural user interface for the Kinect is how to seamlessly recognize a player’s identity to…
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Mobile Indoor Navigation
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily find a particular store in a crowded shopping mall, or locate an office in an unfamiliar building, using just your cell phone? Feng Zhao, assistant managing director…
