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Science Podcast: Accurate Automatic Face Recognition; Complete Synthesis of a Genome; Unde...
facial recognition to 100% by using what they call an "averaged" face. In the future, it could mean a new kind of photo for your passport. I spoke to Jenkins from his office at the University of Glasgow. Interviewee - Rob Jenkins As you know, there&rsqu...
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facial recognition to 100% by using what they call an "averaged" face. In the future, it could mean a new kind of photo for your passport. I spoke to Jenkins from his office at the University of Glasgow. Interviewee - Rob Jenkins As you know, there’s increasing interest in security applications and security infrastructure and biometrics in general. The problem is, a lot of the face recognition systems that are out there simply don’t work at anything like the level that people think they do. So for some
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/319/5862/499b/DC1/1#page=7
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/319/5862/499b/DC1/1#page=7
facial <span class="highlight">recognition</span> to 100% by <span class="highlight">using</span> what they call an "averaged" <span class="highlight">face</span>. In the future, it could mean a new kind <span class="highlight">of</span> photo for your passport. I spoke to Jenkins from his office at the University <span class="highlight">of</span> Glasgow. Interviewee - Rob Jenkins As you know, there’s increasing interest in security applications and security infrastructure and biometrics in general. The problem is, a lot <span class="highlight">of</span> the <span class="highlight">face</span> <span class="highlight">recognition</span> systems that are out there simply don’t work at anything like the level that people think they do. So for some
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/319/5862/499b/DC1/1#page=8
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/319/5862/499b/DC1/1#page=8
adding functionality to it, and they’ve got this very nice celebrity look-alike service. So they’re hosting a huge database <span class="highlight">of</span> famous <span class="highlight">face</span> images, they have about 30,000 images on their database. And the idea is that you as a user can upload a photograph <span class="highlight">of</span> your own <span class="highlight">face</span>, and it will compare the uploaded image <span class="highlight">of</span> you to all the images in its database and show you which celebrity you most closely resemble. Now this process is driven by <span class="highlight">one</span> <span class="highlight">of</span> the industry standard <span class="highlight">face</span> <span class="highlight">recognition</span> systems called FaceVACS. And
 ReadWriteThink: Writing A Riddle Poem
antithesis, and the starting each line with the adjective are all good. It’s pretty stylish as it is but there’s one more thing we can do. Why end each line with a period? Why not emphasize the pairs of opposites by making them couplets? Still, I am like a mirror, Fast, I a...
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antithesis, and the starting each line with the adjective are all good. It’s pretty stylish as it is but there’s one more thing we can do. Why end each line with a period? Why not emphasize the pairs of opposites by making them couplets? Still, I am like a mirror, Fast, I am stronger than stone. Wet, I can burn you, Cold, I can keep you warm. Life, I can be in the desert, Death, I can be on the riverbank. What am I? Note: When using rhetorical devices and poetic techniques such as alliteration
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http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson169/WriteARiddle.pdf#page=2
www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson169/WriteARiddle.pdf#page=2
Describe <span class="highlight">using</span> figurative language -<span class="highlight">Using</span> what you’ve come up with so far, think <span class="highlight">of</span> ways to use figurative language to describe your answer and to give clues. -Imagery: The river cut through the canyon before ambling along the plain. -Metaphor: Streams are fish roads. -Metonymy: The wetness splashed upon us. -Onomatopoeia: Water laps the shore. -Personification: The water cooked my egg. -Simile: Pools <span class="highlight">of</span> water reflect like mirrors. -Synecdoche: The ship sank in the drink. Choose elements
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http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson169/WriteARiddle.pdf#page=3
www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson169/WriteARiddle.pdf#page=3
antithesis, and the starting each line with the adjective are all good. It’s pretty stylish as it is but there’s <span class="highlight">one</span> more thing we can do. Why end each line with a period? Why not emphasize the pairs <span class="highlight">of</span> opposites by making them couplets? Still, I am like a mirror, Fast, I am stronger than stone. Wet, I can burn you, Cold, I can keep you warm. Life, I can be in the desert, Death, I can be on the riverbank. What am I? Note: When <span class="highlight">using</span> rhetorical devices and poetic techniques such as alliteration
Word-Form Recognition Accuracy, Word Sorts
Class Length: 10 minutes Materials: A deck of cards that contains each word recognition word learned so far for each pair of players (ideally, about 20 cards in a deck) Goal: goal = Given a written regular word, the student can say the word with automaticity ( abc -> "ab...
Communities of Practice Part 1
great distance from one another—it was felt that having a community like this would require some face-to-face meetings, but that that could not be done without some kind of sponsorship...
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great distance from one another—it was felt that having a community like this would require some face-to-face meetings, but that that could not be done without some kind of sponsorship
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http://www.calstat.org/podcasts/pdfs/community_practice_transcript.pdf#page=1
www.calstat.org/podcasts/pdfs/community_practice_transcript.pdf#page=1
great distance from <span class="highlight">one</span> another—it was felt that having a community like this would require some <span class="highlight">face</span>-to-<span class="highlight">face</span> meetings, but that that could not be done without some kind <span class="highlight">of</span> sponsorship
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http://www.calstat.org/podcasts/pdfs/community_practice_transcript.pdf#page=4
www.calstat.org/podcasts/pdfs/community_practice_transcript.pdf#page=4
me why he thought it was a good bottle. And what followed was this sort <span class="highlight">of</span> amazing symphony <span class="highlight">of</span> tastes, you know? So, he started to tell me that it was strawberry here, and there was chocolate there, and there was a strong entrance and long lingering; and it was this amazing perspective on a glass <span class="highlight">of</span> wine that simply did not exist to me. And the <span class="highlight">one</span> that really floored me is when he kind <span class="highlight">of</span> puts his nose in the glass and goes into this kind <span class="highlight">of</span> trance state and then tells me, “<span class="highlight">Hmm</span>, and this <span class="highlight">one</span> is a
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http://www.calstat.org/podcasts/pdfs/community_practice_transcript.pdf#page=5
www.calstat.org/podcasts/pdfs/community_practice_transcript.pdf#page=5
“Oh no, that’s not me.” I’m not <span class="highlight">one</span> <span class="highlight">of</span> those people. And I still, today, cannot tell you really what “purple in the nose” really means. Even though I’ve used this story a lot, so I know two things that I didn't discover that evening. I know that even white wine can have “purple in the nose”—at least that evening it was red wine, so it had this purple color—but even white wine can have purple in the nose. And I have also learned that the nose that he is talking about is not the nose on your <span class="highlight">face</span>; it’s
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http://www.calstat.org/podcasts/pdfs/community_practice_transcript.pdf#page=7
www.calstat.org/podcasts/pdfs/community_practice_transcript.pdf#page=7
But also what has surprised me is how the concept has been adopted in all sorts <span class="highlight">of</span> different sectors as a way to start re-thinking the institutions <span class="highlight">of</span> learning. And when you go ask people who belong to communities <span class="highlight">of</span> practice, what that means to them—now moving to the next slide called “Practitioners Need a Community” here are a list <span class="highlight">of</span> some <span class="highlight">of</span> the answers that you get—people will tell you, “Well, <span class="highlight">hmm</span>, I get help to solve a problem,” in the same way these teachers were getting help addressing issues
Sheep Are Highly Adept at Recognizing Faces, Study Shows
This? SHARE Digg StumbleUpon Reddit "If sheep have such sophisticated facial recognition skills, they must have much greater social requirements than we thought," said Keith Kendrick, of the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England, and an author of the recent re...
Word form recognition accuracy, Read and Rhyme
pull out one card, sound out the word on your card silently, and then read the word aloud quickly while holding up your card so that everyone can see it. Model this using a word in the sack. Once you have read your word, the rest of us will indicate if you’ve read...
Human Identification at a Distance
Jitendra Viswanadhan Goals We are developing ways to identify humans at a distance. One primary focus of our work is on gait recognition. We propose a technique that recovers static body and stride parameters of subjects as they walk. This approach is an example of...
ESL Cafe: Conversational Language #6
> Back to Grammar Lessons Page Conversational Language (#6), by Dennis Oliver Conversational Language (#6): Short Reactions Written language and conversational language are often quite different. In fact, what's normal, common, and acceptable in spoken language is often considered to be...
NCTM: Polygon Capture: A Geometry Game
The purpose of this game is to motivate students to examine relationships among geometric properties. From the perspective of the Van Hiele model of geometry, the students move from recognition or description to analysis (Fuys 1988). Often, when asked to describe g...
Polygon Capture: A Geometry Game
The purpose of this game is to motivate students to examine relationships among geometric properties. From the perspective of the Van Hiele model of geometry, the students move from recognition or description to analysis (Fuys 1988). Often, when asked to describe g...
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