Mobile Networks and Applications - Although federated learning has been widely used in collaborative training of machine learning models, its practical uses are still challenged by heterogeneous... 相似文献
Human beings are capable of imagining a person’s voice according to his or her appearance because different people have different voice characteristics. Although researchers have made great progress in single-view speech synthesis, there are few studies on multi-view speech synthesis, especially the speech synthesis using face images. On the basis of implicit relationship between the speaker’s face image and his or her voice, we propose a multi-view speech synthesis method called SSFE (Speech Synthesis with Face Embeddings). The proposed SSFE consists of three parts: a voice encoder, a face encoder and an improved multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS) engine. On the one hand, the proposed voice encoder generates the voice embeddings from the speaker’s speech and the proposed face encoder extracts the voice features from the speaker’s face as f-voice embeddings. On the other hand, the multi-speaker TTS engine would synthesize the speech with voice embeddings and f-voice embeddings. We have conducted extensive experiments to evaluate the proposed SSFE on the synthesized speech quality and face-voice matching degree, in which the Mean Opinion Score of the SSFE is more than 3.7 and the matching degree is about 1.7. The experimental results prove that the proposed SSFE method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the synthesized speech in terms of speech quality and face-voice matching degree.
Applied Intelligence - Face aging is of great significance in cross-time identity verification problem. However, there is still a huge gap between the synthesized face image and the real face in... 相似文献
Tetragonal BiFeO3 (BFO), which has a giant spontaneous polarization, has attracted a great deal of attention recently. In this paper, we systematically study the structural, magnetic, electronic and optic properties of BFO, BiFe0.75Mn0.25O3 (BFMM), and BiFe0.75Ti0.125Mn0.125O3 (BFMT). Results show that doping Ti and Mn into the Fe sites increases the c/a ratio and enhances the magnetization of BiFeO3 from 0 to 5 μB. The crystal symmetry changes from orthogonality to tetragonality with half of the Mn atoms being replaced by Ti in BiFe0.75Mn0.25O3, which suppresses the energy splitting of the Mn 3d orbitals and thus enlarge the band gap to 1.21 eV for BiFe0.75Ti0.125Mn0.125O3. Our calculated Bader charge and charge density difference show that the smallest volume of BiFe0.75Mn0.25O3 arises from the strong Mn–O bonds in BiFe0.75Mn0.25O3. Further investigations indicate similar optical behaviors for BiFeO3 and BiFe0.75Ti0.125Mn0.125O3. However, BiFe0.75Mn0.25O3 exhibits strong absorption in the infrared region for the transition from O 2p to Mn \({e_{g}^{2}}\) and \(t_{2g}^{3}\). 相似文献
Malignant melanoma is a highly aggressive tumor resistant to chemotherapy. Therefore, the development of new highly effective therapeutic agents for the treatment of malignant melanoma is highly desirable. In this study, a new class of polymeric photothermal agents based on poly(N‐phenylglycine) (PNPG) suitable for use in near‐infrared (NIR) phototherapy of malignant melanoma is designed and developed. PNPG is obtained via polymerization of N‐phenylglycine (NPG). Carboxylate functionality of NPG allows building multifunctional systems using covalent bonding. This approach avoids complicated issues typically associated with preparation of polymeric photothermal agents. Moreover, PNPG skeleton exhibits pH‐responsive NIR absorption and an ability to generate reactive oxygen species, which makes its derivatives attractive photothermal therapy (PTT)/photodynamic therapy (PDT) dual‐modal agents with pH‐responsive features. PNPG is modified using hyaluronic acid (HA) and polyethylene glycol diamine (PEG‐diamine) acting as the coupling agent. The resultant HA‐modified PNPG (PNPG‐PEG‐HA) shows negligible cytotoxicity and effectively targets CD44‐overexpressing cancer cells. Furthermore, the results of in vitro and in vivo experiments reveal that PNPG‐PEG‐HA selectively kills B16 cells and suppresses malignant melanoma tumor growth upon exposure to NIR light (808 nm), indicating that PNPG‐PEG‐HA can serve as a very promising nanoplatform for targeted dual‐modality PTT/PDT of melanoma. 相似文献
The anisotropic two-dimensional (2D) layered material rhenium disulfide (ReSe2) has attracted considerable attention because of its unusual properties and promising applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices.However,because of its low lattice symmetry and interlayer decoupling,anisotropic growth and out-of-plane growth occur easily,yielding thick flakes,dendritic structure,or flower-like structure.In this study,we demonstrated a bottom-up method for the controlled and scalable synthesis of ReSe2 by van der Waals epitaxy.To achieve controllable growth,a micro-reactor with a confined reaction space was constructed by stacking two mica substrates in the chemical vapor deposition system.Within the confined reaction space,the nucleation density and growth rate of ReSe2 were significantly reduced,favoring the large-area synthesis of ReSe2 with a uniform monolayer thickness.The morphological evolution of ReSe2 with growth temperature indicated that the anisotropic growth was suppressed at a low growth temperature (<600 ℃).Field-effect transistors employing the grown ReSe2 exhibited p-type conduction with a current ON/OFF ratio up to 10s and a hole carrier mobility of 0.98 cm2/(V.s).Furthermore,the ReSe2 device exhibited an outstanding photoresponse to near-infrared light,with responsivity up to 8.4 and 5.1 A/W for 850-and 940-nm light,respectively.This work not only promotes the large-scale application of ReSe2 in high-performance electronic devices but also clarifies the growth mechanism of low-lattice symmetry 2D materials. 相似文献