Microsoft Research

We compress storage and accelerate performance of precomputed radiance transfer (PRT), which captures the way an object shadows, scatters, and reflects light.

We describe a fully automatic method, called iso-charts, to create texture atlases on arbitrary meshes.

We present a novel technique for large deformations on 3D meshes using the volumetric graph Laplacian. We first construct a graph representing the volume inside the input mesh.

Precomputed radiance transfer (PRT) captures realistic lighting effects from distant, low-frequency environmental lighting but has been limited to static models or precomputed sequences.

Bidirectional texture functions, or BTFs, accurately model reflectance variation at a fine (meso-) scale as a function of lighting and viewing direction.

Previous methods for soft shadows numerically integrate over many light directions at each receiver point, testing blocker visibility in each direction.

We present a new, real-time method for rendering soft shadows from large light sources or lighting environments on dynamic height fields.

We present a new technique for the visual modeling of spatiallyvarying anisotropic reflectance using data captured from a single view.

We present a simple, fast solution for reflectance acquisition using tools that fit into a pocket.

We describe a technique for real-time rendering of dynamic, spatially-varying BRDFs in static scenes with all-frequency shadows from environmental and point lights.

We present a real-time method for rendering global illumination effects from large area and environmental lights on dynamic height fields.

Recent work defines vector graphics using diffusion between colored curves. We explore higher-order fairing to enable more natural interpolation and greater expressive control.

We introduce a new method to synthesize mechanical toys solely from the motion of their features.

Introductions 0:00:00 – Henry Honig – MSR Media Producer 00:14:02 - Jessie Hooper and Budi Mulyo - Welcome and Introductions Speakers 17:35 – Jerry Carleton – Immix Law Group 38:11 - Matt Hooper –

The proliferation of datacenters, smartphones, personal sensing and tracking devices, and home automation products is fundamentally changing the applications we interact with daily.

My research focuses on applying differential privacy to problems in economics, statistical hypothesis testing, and adaptive data analysis in machine learning.

Bugs in programs remain a pernicious problem.

Prism Skylabs is using Microsoft Cognitive Services to help businesses search, analyze and categorize their videos automatically with artificial intelligence.

Human Interact is using Microsoft Cognitive Services for Starship Commander, an interactive virtual reality science fiction game that gives players control over the narrative using real conversation.

99% of computer users do not know programming and struggle with repetitive tasks.

LIQUi|> provides a modular software architecture for the simulation of quantum algorithms. It provides a high level interface and is independent of a specific quantum architecture.

In this lecture we will discuss how to tolerate Byzantine faults in achieving consensus. We illustrate through refining Paxos step by step.

How much heat is dissipated in a quantum computer? Just how small can thermal engines be? When can we model a device’s environment as a heat bath?

Fault-tolerant quantum computation techniques rely on weakly correlated noise. Here I show that it is enough to assume weak spatial correlations: time correlations can take any form.

"This paper presents a polynomial time quantum algorithms for computing the ideal class group and solving the principal ideal problem (PIP) in arbitrary classes of number fields under the

1. Simulated quantum annealing can be exponentially faster than classical simulated annealing 2. Adiabatic optimization versus diffusion Monte Carlo "1.

A natural operational paradigm for distributed quantum and classical information processing involves local operations coordinated by multiple rounds of public communication.

A critical question for the field of quantum computing in the near future is whether quantum devices without error correction can perform a well-defined computational task beyond the capabilities of

In this talk, I will report two routes towards experimental BosonSampling with many photons.

"This submission merges two related papers, which develop new tools to obtain fresh insight into the notion of quantum information complexity (QIC), and its link to quantum communication complexity.