Over the past two years, Microsoft and Webjet have collaborated to build a blockchain-based solution, Rezchain, to help travel companies reduce payment disputes. In this code story, we’ll share the lessons learned in creating the Rezchain consortium. In particular, we'll focus on how we solved the challenges involved with enabling Ethereum nodes t...
In this article, we introduce a technique to rapidly pre-label training data for image segmentation models such that annotators no longer have to painstakingly hand-annotate every pixel of interest in an image. The approach is implemented in Python and OpenCV and extensible to any image segmentation task that aims to identify a subset of visually d...
In early 2018, Microsoft partnered with a successful international online fashion retailer to develop an efficient system for logging newly arrived apparel items and quickly determining whether the item is already in stock
Extracting general concepts, rather than specific phrases, from documents and contracts is challenging. It's even more complicated when applied to scanned documents containing handwritten annotations. We describe using object detection and OCR with Azure ML Package for Computer Vision and Cognitive Services API.
We achieved zero-downtime reconfiguration and management of the Spark Streaming job used in Project Fortis with Azure Service Bus.
We worked with Aveva to build 3DToolkit, a toolkit for creating cloud-based 3D experiences that securely stream to low-powered devices using WebRTC.
We explored possible techniques to identify duplicate catalogue entries in fashion retail through image similarity with deep learning and computer vision.
We developed an Electron-based app using Microsoft Intune cloud service for management and distribution across a broad range of devices.
The ixo Foundation is building a decentralized impact evaluation protocol using blockchain and W3C decentralized identifier specification. We worked with them to develop a sample client in React Native, including a native Android plugin for app-to-app communication.
We developed a Voronoi selection feature to improve the node selection experience in a HoloLens app that enables physicians to visualize cancer drug networks in 3D.
