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Development of a Personalized Quantitative Faculty Annual Evaluation System
Faculty annual evaluation is critical for faculty career
development and department success. Our department
developed a quantitative faculty evaluation metrics system
that is more objective, consistent, flexible, personalized,
transparent, and dynamic scoring system. We have
implemented the system for 2 years and the outcomes are
very encouraging in promoting faculty and department
success.Cockrell School of Engineerin
BaFe2Se2O as an Iron-Based Mott Insulator with Antiferromagnetic Order
A new compound with a quasi-two-dimensional array of FeSe3O tetrahedra and an
orthorombic structure, namely BaFe2Se2O, has been successfully fabricated.
Experimental results show that this compound is an insulator and has an
antiferromagnetic (AF) transition at 240 K. Band structure calculation reveals
the narrowing of Fe 3d bands near the Fermi energy, which leads to the
localization of magnetism and the Mott insulating behavior. The large distances
between the Fe atoms perhaps are responsible for the characters. Linear
response calculation further indicates a strong in-plane AF exchange , this
can account for the enhanced magnetic susceptibility (which has a maximum at
about 450 K) above the Neel temperature.Comment: submitted to PRL on 2 May 2012, resubmitted to PRB on 31 May 2012,
and accepted by PRB on 5 July 201
Automatic skin segmentation for gesture recognition combining region and support vector machine active learning
Skin segmentation is the cornerstone of many applications such as gesture recognition, face detection, and objectionable image filtering. In this paper, we attempt to address the skin segmentation problem for gesture recognition. Initially, given a gesture video sequence, a generic skin model is applied to the first couple of frames to automatically collect the training data. Then, an SVM classifier based on active learning is used to identify the skin pixels. Finally, the results are improved by incorporating region segmentation. The proposed algorithm is fully automatic and adaptive to different signers. We have tested our approach on the ECHO database. Comparing with other existing algorithms, our method could achieve better performance
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