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SUMMARY:Blue skies to ground truth: Machine learning for Kinect human moti
 on capture - Andrew Fitzgibbon\, Microsoft
DTSTART:20110630T083000Z
DTEND:20110630T093000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:Kinect for XBox 360 is not just a new way of controlling compu
 ter games\, it represents a fundamental change in the way humans can inter
 act with machines. I will talk about how Kinect solves the human body trac
 king problem\, which involved a significant advance over the academic stat
 e of the art. The key was a clever repurposing of existing machine learnin
 g approaches to general object recognition\, combined a database of traini
 ng data much larger than had previously been used. The talk also illustrat
 es how “blue skies” research can have practical benefits both short-te
 rm and long.
LOCATION:Large lecture theatre\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomson Av
 enue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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