computer vision

Today Dwight Goins shares a great example on using one of the coolest features of the Kinect v2, heart rate detection... Link Removed When the latest Kinect sensor was unveiled more than a year ago at Build 2014, demos showed how it could determine a user’s heart rate without attaching...

Kinect MVP James Ashley is back with a great example of using OpenCV v3 (which we highlighted OpenCV turns 3 and seeing Intel(R) INDE OpenCV), Emgu and the Kinect v2 to implement computer vision/facial recognition. Some of our other posts where we highlight James; Kinect 2 Unity 5 "Kinect v2...

Today's series comes from Coding4Fun Friend, Bruno Capuano, where he shows off one of our favorite subjects, facial recognition, with a cloud twist. Bruno is showing off Microsoft's Project Oxford, Face API's and how you can get started using them. First, Project Oxford? Link Removed Welcome...

Today's series comes from Coding4Fun Friend, Bruno Capuano, where he shows off one of our favorite subjects, facial recognition, with a cloud twist. Bruno is showing off Microsoft's Project Oxford, Face API's and how you can get started using them. First, Project Oxford? Link Removed Welcome...

Today's library is one I've seen asked for a number of times on different forums and comments. Best of all, you can get it free and help them flesh it out... Link Removed We are excited to share our Finger Tracking library Aiolos for Kinect v2 with you. At this time, Aiolos is still in an...

One of cooler libraries we've highlighted over the years is OpenCV, Open Source Computer Vision. Link Removed OpenCV is; OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library. OpenCV was built to provide a common infrastructure...

I guess it's Peter Daukintis week. :) Today's project he's showing off the openFrameworks. Reminder about openFrameworks? openFrameworks is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries, including: OpenGL, GLEW, GLUT, libtess2 and cairo for...

I found today's project via Link Removed Link Removed and once I watched the video, there was no question about me highlighting it here as soon as possible... While Hololens might make this look like child's play, we don't have them yet and we DO have Kinect's... :) Real life Portal; a...

Peter Daukintis, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, who we recently highlighted, Kinect for Windows v2 Face Tracking Managed and Native, continues his Kinect for Windows v2 exploration and sharing, this time with two posts about the very cool Visual Gesture Builder. Link Removed When I created a...

Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser. Still, despite huge technological strides in the last decade or so, visual search has plenty...

Innovation is an overused buzzword these days. What does it mean, really? Well, Microsoft Research is in the business of scientific discovery which often leads to innovations that end up in the hands of computer users (or not in the hands of the computer users as the case may be). One area of...