Personalized Convolution for Face Recognition

International Journal of Computer Vision - Face recognition has been significantly advanced by deep learning based methods. In all face recognition methods based on convolutional neural network...     

Speech synthesis with face embeddings

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.

     

Face aging with pixel-level alignment GAN

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...     

Simulation analysis and experimental verification of coal suction characteristics of the new railway tunnel fallen coal dust collection device北大核心CSCD

Due to air turbulence, large areas of coal will fall when the special coal-transportation trains pass the tunnel exits and entrances. Aiming at the problems of low efficiency and high cost of manual cleaning for long distance coal cleaning in the tunnel, a new railway tunnel fallen coal dust collection device which was composed of a main conveying coal feeding pipe and multiple branch pipes of coal suction was designed. It was used to clean the small particles and lightweight railway tunnel fallen coal. Firstly, the gas-solid two-phase flow model based on the Euler-Lagrange approach for the design of the main conveying coal feeding pipe was established in the coal conveying pipelines. Secondly, the effect of the coal particles' incident angle and multiple branch pipe spacing on the main coal conveying pipe flow field, which was based on Fluent finite element simulation software, was studied. What was more, the optimal angle of incidence and the optimal value of the number of branch coal suction pipe, which was installed on the main conveying pipe, were analyzed. Finally, the finite element simulation was verified by field test. Simulation and experimental results showed that it was more conducive to the railway tunnel fallen coal transportation when coal particles' incident angle was less than 45° and the branch pipe spacing was in the vicinity of 750 mm. For that when incident angle was less than 45°, the main conveying coal pipe pressure-drop became weaker and particle flow could obtain large horizontal transport velocity. And when the branch pipe spacing was in the vicinity of 750 mm, the horizontal transport velocity had a smaller fluctuation range and the transportation of coal was larger than that of the other groups. The research results are of great significance to improve the structure of the main conveying coal pipe, increase the efficiency of tunnel coal conveying and optimize the railway tunnel coal dust collection device.     

关于建立健全交通基础设施长寿命安全保障体系的战略思考

本文主要针对我国交通基础设施存在的结构病害严重、"短寿命"突出、"老龄化"日益凸显、长寿命安全服役面临严峻挑战等问题,借鉴发达国家的先进经验,提出了我国交通基础设施长寿命安全保障体系建设的总体目标、战略任务及相关建议,并开展了交通基础设施长寿命安全保障体系的系统研究和建设工作,对确保其长寿命安全服役和交通大动脉的安全畅通、支撑国民经济可持续发展、保障人民生活安稳有序、助力国家安全和社会稳定具有十分重要的战略意义。     

电感耦合等离子体质谱测定血铅的不确定度评定

依据CNAS-GL06《化学分析中不确定度的评估指南》和JJF 1059.1-2012《测量不确定度评定与表示》,对电感耦合等离子体质谱测定全血中铅元素含量进行不确定度评估。样品采用湿法消解,电感耦合等离子体质谱仪测量,通过建立数学模型,分析样品中铅元素含量测定结果的不确定度来源,并给出各不确定度的分量。在置信水平为95%,取包含因子k=2,当全血中铅的含量为54.48 ng/m L时,其扩展不确定度为7.20 ng/m L,结果表示为X=(54.48±7.20)ng/m L,k=2。试样溶液中铅元素的质量浓度是产生不确定度的最主要来源。工作曲线配制时采用天平产生的不确定度很小,对测定结果的影响几乎可以忽略。     

Experimental modelling of free-surface dry granular flows under a centrifugal acceleration field

We investigate the dynamics of granular flows under the action of a centrifugal acceleration field. The granular flows consist of a monodisperse set of glass beads flowing down an inclined plane. The experiments are performed at variable slope angles \(\zeta \) and equivalent centrifugal accelerations \(a_\text {cf}\equiv Ng\). We study the effect of this parameters on the superficial flow velocity u and flow height h. Two trends are observed, by increasing \(\zeta \) and \(a_\text {cf}\), u increases proportionally, and h decreases asymptotically until a constant height. This relation is analysed in terms of the system potential and kinetic energy, leading to the estimation of equivalent impact forces one order of magnitude larger than those observed in small scale 1g laboratory experiments, with the possibility to reach higher forces by increasing N. Finally, considering the trend of u and h, our results suggest a scaling principle of inertial velocity proportional to \(\sqrt{N}\).     

Three-dimensional elasticity solution of layered plates with viscoelastic interlayers

An analytical solution for simply supported layered plates with viscoelastic interlayers under a transverse load is proposed. The deformation of each plate layer is described by the exact three-dimensional elasticity equations. The viscoelastic property of interlayer is simulated by the generalized Maxwell model. The constitutive relation of the interlayer is simplified by the quasi-elastic approximation, which significantly simplifies the analytical process. The solution of stress and displacement fields with undetermined coefficients is derived by solving a group of ordinary differential equations. The undetermined coefficients can be efficiently deduced by using the recursive matrix technique for the plate with any number of layers. The practical convergence is observed during numerical tests. The comparison analysis indicates that the present solution has a close agreement with the finite element solution. However, the solution based on the Mindlin–Reissner hypothesis is significantly different from the present solution for thick plates. Finally, the effect of interlayer thickness on stress and displacement distributions of a five-layer plate is discussed in detail.