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Ed Cutrell

Sr. Principal Research Manager

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A young boy wearing the PeopleLens sits on the floor of a playroom holding a blind tennis ball in his hands. His attention is directed toward a woman sitting on the floor in front of him holding her hands out. The PeopleLens looks like small goggles that sit on the forehead. The image is marked with visual annotations to indicate what the PeopleLens is seeing and what sounds are being heard.
Microsoft Research Blog

| Cecily Morrison, Katherine Jones, Martin Grayson, and Ed Cutrell

For children born blind, social interaction can be particularly challenging. A child may have difficulty aiming their voice at the person they’re talking to and put their head on their desk instead. Linguistically advanced young people may struggle with maintaining…

On left, text reads ORBIT benchmark dataset: 77 blind and low-vision collectors, 486 objects, 3822 videos, and 2687934 frames. On right, a graphic of a face mask with a line that connects to a picture of a cloth mask with a black and white zig-zag pattern. The line reads seven to eight videos per object. Below the face mask graphic, there are three yellow objects resembling a watering can, a key, and a comb. A line next to these reads two to ten objects per user. The objects are falling into a green bucket, with a line to the right of the bucket that reads user’s bucket.
Microsoft Research Blog

| Daniela Massiceti, Cecily Morrison, Katja Hofmann, and Ed Cutrell

Object recognition systems have made spectacular advances in recent years, but they rely on training datasets with thousands of high-quality, labelled examples per object category. Learning new objects from only a few examples could open the door to many new…

A collage graphic displays various research projects from the 2020 year
Microsoft Research Blog

Microsoft researchers pursue the big questions about what the world will be like in the future and the role technology will play. Not only do they take on the responsibility of exploring the long-term vision of their research, but they…

Microsoft Research Blog

| Simone Stumpf, Cecily Morrison, Daniela Massiceti, Ed Cutrell, and Lida Theodorou

Microsoft AI for Accessibility is funding the ORBIT research project, which is enlisting the help of people who are blind or low vision to build a new dataset. People who are blind or low vision can contribute to the project…

A. F. Siu (MSR & Stanford), M. Sinclair, R. Kovacs, C. Holz, E. Ofek, and E. Cutrell. Virtual Reality Without Vision: A Haptic and Auditory White Cane to Navigate Complex Virtual Worlds.  CHI 2020

Microsoft Research Blog

| Ed Cutrell and Eyal Ofek

Virtual reality (VR) is an incredibly exciting way to experience computing, providing users with intuitive and immersive means of interacting with information that attempts to mirror the way we naturally experience the world around us. In the past few years,…

Awards | Virtual reality without vision: A haptic and auditory white cane to navigate complex virtual worlds

Awards | ACM SIGIR

Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins received the 2015 ACM SIGIR Test of Time Paper Award for research that had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across…