Theo, right, a 12-year-old boy who is blind, interacts with Microsoft senior research software development engineers Tim Regan, middle, and Martin Grayson, left, during user testing of the Project Tokyo system.

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AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage for further progress in 2024.

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New evaluation methods and a commitment to continual improvement are musts if we’re to build multimodal AI systems that advance human goals. Learn about cutting-edge research into the responsible development and use of multimodal AI at Microsoft.

新闻报道 | Ahmedabad Mirror

Tech giant Microsoft has developed a novel Artificial Intelligence-based technology that helps blind children and young people better understand their immediate social environment, interact with peers and gain confidence more easily.

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.
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| Cecily Morrison, Katherine Jones, Martin Grayson, 和 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…

新闻报道 | TechCrunch

Among the challenges of growing up with a visual impairment is learning and participating in the social and conversational body language used by sighted people. PeopleLens is a research project at Microsoft that helps the user stay aware of the…

新闻报道 | WinBuzzer

Microsoft Research has published a blog discussing a new project known as PeopleLens. This is a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that helps young people who are blind and those around them communicate more efficiently.

A close-up of a man wearing casual clothing, he has his smartphone in his hand and he is using an assistive mobile app for people with vision disabilities to assist him.
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Accessibility and inclusion represent a growing space in the technology landscape, and how research and development are being used to empower people across abilities is expanding in exciting ways. Instead of treating disabilities as conditions in need of solutions—as has…

新闻报道 | The AI Blog

Saqib Shaikh says people who are blind, like himself, typically develop highly organized routines to keep track of their things — putting keys, wallets, canes and other essentials in the same places each time. But sometimes life gets messy: A…

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奖项 | Microsoft reporter

Cecily Morrison, a principal researcher at Microsoft’s Research Lab in Cambridge, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.  The 39-year-old, who is currently working on a project that uses technology to help people with low vision understand who’s around them, has been recognised…