Over the past few years, our Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX) group at Microsoft Research has worked closely with the Bing team to address challenging data cleaning and approximate matching problems. In this article we describe some of the key Big Data challenges in the context of these Bing services primarily focusing on two key services: Bing Maps and Bing Shopping. We describe i...

We are motivated by the need for a generic object proposal generation algorithm which achieves good balance between object detection recall, proposal localization quality and computational efficiency. We propose a novel object proposal algorithm, BING++, which inherits the virtue of good computational efficiency of BING [1] but significantly improves its proposal localization quality. At high l...

We give a new geometric obstruction to the iterated Bing double of a knot being a slice link: for n > 1 the (n + 1)st iterated Bing double of a knot is rationally slice if and only if the nth iterated Bing double of the knot is rationally slice. The main technique of the proof is a covering link construction simplifying a given link. We prove certain similar geometric obstructions for n ≤ 1 as ...

ABSTRACT: Recently, much more high-resolution satellite images became available. We can detect vehicles in such high-resolution images, and estimation of earnings by counting vehicles in commercial facilities is becoming popular. For this purpose, we need to detect and count vehicles in satellite images accurately. In applications for detecting vehicles, deep neural network has achieved state-o...

The Bing-Neel syndrome is a rare neurological complication of Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia which results from a direct involvement of central nervous system by malignant lymphoplasmacytic cells. The clinical suspicion of Bing-Neel syndrome may be overlooked because neurologic symptoms are heterogeneous, nonspecific and sometimes underhand. A definitive diagnosis of Bing-Neel syndrome can be ...

Background: Qin Bing eye drop is prepared with cortex fraxini and borneol. It has been commonly used to relieve the symptoms of photokeratoconjunctivitis (PKC), chronic conjunctivitis and keratitis for more than forty years. However, the origins of cortex fraxini are various, which may result in the unstable quality. Methods: The animal model of PKC was established using rabbit’s eyes exposure ...

The use of complementary and alternative medicines-including a variety of herbal therapies-by patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy has been well documented. Despite such widespread use, however, the benefits and potential mechanisms of such herbal medicines remain largely anecdotal. In this study we examined the effects of a Chinese herbal formula, Bing De Ling, when administered as an adjun...