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Hello there!!!

Microsoft researchers are showing there latest research wares at the TechFest 2007. 3D is the keyword in the UI, Graphics and Media disciplines.

The TechFest 2007 contents are:

• Emerging Markets and Research Partners
• Hardware, Devices, and Mobile Computing
• Search, Interaction, and Collaboration
• Software, Theory, and Security
• Systems, Networking, and Databases
• UI, Graphics, and Media

About UI, Graphics and Media, Microsoft will develop and use 3D tech. Two of that technologies are the following:

HDView: IE Plug-in for Viewing Very Large Images

New imaging modalities range from photo collections arranged in 3-D to super-high-resolution (gigapixel) images to 360-degree panoramic video. This is revolutionizing the way that people view and interact with their photos. We will demonstrate a new viewer that can be embedded in any application or Web page. It merges traditional slide shows, super-high-resolution panoramas, high-dynamic-range imagery, and 360-degree animations to create an incredibly rich photo-viewing and -browsing experience. During TechFest, we will demonstrate these features. A version with a subset of these features will be made available both internally and externally. We also will demonstrate a prototype authoring tool that generates HDView content.

Digital Effects for Internet Video Clips

We will present a set of offline video-editing tools that make videos more fun. Existing video-editing tools provide filters such as de-noising and adjustment of color and contrast or transitions such as fade in and out. These tools are useful, but they provide only slight improvement to videos. We will show fun video-editing tools that can improve a user’s video experiences significantly. Our tools achieve three operations to a video:

• Add—adding objects such as 3-D synthetic objects and video hyperlinks into a video.
• Separate—separating a video’s foreground from its background, to achieve cut and paste of video objects.
• Browse—browsing video in the form of montage, summarizing the video in a space-time manner.

We will demonstrate our technologies as applied to Internet video clips rendered even more enjoyable.

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Brgds,

CP