July 21, 2021
To assist AI practitioners in building human-centered AI, we are introducing the Human-AI eXperience (HAX) Toolkit. This suite of tools spans the end-to-end product development lifecycle, providing support where AI practitioners have requested it. In this webinar, join Saleema Amershi, Senior Principal Research Manager, and…
June 24, 2021
In this webinar, Microsoft Research Asia Senior Researcher Quanlu Zhang and Principal Program Manager Scarlett Li will analyze the challenges associated with retrofitting exploratory-training into the training process of a single DNN model within the context of Neural Architecture Search (NAS). The first part of…
May 20, 2021
In this webinar, Senior Researcher Xu Tan will address the challenges with advancing neural TTS, specifically the high computational cost and slow inference speed in online serving; word skipping and repeating issues, poor voice quality, and lack of voice controllability; the large amounts of training…
May 13, 2021
Join Microsoft researchers Su Lin Blodgett and Alexandra Olteanu, from the FATE Group at Microsoft Research Montréal, to examine pitfalls in some state-of-the-art approaches to measuring computational harms in language technologies. For such measurements of harms to be effective, it is important to clearly articulate…
March 18, 2021
The webinar will present examples of how these learnings are shaping our research on developing principles and tools for bringing the AI principle of reliability and safety to reality. In particular, it will showcase an ecosystem of open-source tools that are intended to accelerate the…
March 11, 2021
AI has transformed modern life via previously unthinkable feats, from machines that can master the ancient board game Go and self-driving cars to developments we experience more routinely, such as virtual agents and personalized product recommendations. Simultaneously, these new opportunities have raised new challenges—most notably,…
February 18, 2021
In this webinar, learn how the latest AI techniques can be applied to multiplayer games in the challenging and diverse 3D environment of Minecraft. Join the researchers as they demonstrate how Project Malmo—a platform for AI experimentation built on Minecraft—provides an ideal environment for designing…
February 11, 2021
This webinar will focus on some of the recent vision-language pretraining (VLP) approaches for image captioning. We will cover our latest approaches, including object-semantics aligned pretraining (OSCAR) and visual-vocabulary pretraining (VIVO). We will also discuss their key principles and how we address the core challenges…
January 28, 2021
In this webinar, Dr. Ozan Oktay and Dr. Anton Schwaighofer will analyze these challenges within the context of image-guided radiotherapy procedures and will present the latest research outputs of Project InnerEye in tackling these challenges. The first part of the webinar will focus on a…
January 21, 2021
In this webinar, join Jeff Delmerico and Helen Oleynikova, Senior Scientists at the Mixed Reality and AI Zurich Lab, in exploring how mixed reality (MR)—which blends the digital world with the physical one—can be used to provide an easier and safer way to interact with…
December 15, 2020
In this webinar, Microsoft Researcher Eyal Ofek presents a summary of research investigating opportunities and challenges for realizing a mobile VR office environment. In particular, you’ll learn how VR can be mixed with standard off-the-shelf equipment (such as tablets, laptops, or desktops) to enable effective,…
December 3, 2020
In this webinar, join Microsoft researchers Amit Sharma and Emre Kıcıman to learn about the fundamentals of causal inference. You will learn how a target question of cause and effect can be captured in a formal graphical model and answered systematically using available data. The…
