The Domino Logic of the darkest moment: The fall of Singapore, the Atlantic Echo Chamber, and 'Chinese Penetration' in US Cold War Policy toward Southeast Asia

This essay won the 2014 Frank Gibney Prize for best article in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations. The prize came with a US$1,000 award.</p

Weakly-supervised Caricature Face Parsing through Domain Adaptation

A caricature is an artistic form of a person's picture in which certain striking characteristics are abstracted or exaggerated in order to create a humor or sarcasm effect. For numerous caricature related applications such as attribute recognition and caricature editing, face parsing is an essential pre-processing step that provides a complete facial structure understanding. However, current state-of-the-art face parsing methods require large amounts of labeled data on the pixel-level and such process for caricature is tedious and labor-intensive. For real photos, there are numerous labeled datasets for face parsing. Thus, we formulate caricature face parsing as a domain adaptation problem, where real photos play the role of the source domain, adapting to the target caricatures. Specifically, we first leverage a spatial transformer based network to enable shape domain shifts. A feed-forward style transfer network is then utilized to capture texture-level domain gaps. With these two steps, we synthesize face caricatures from real photos, and thus we can use parsing ground truths of the original photos to learn the parsing model. Experimental results on the synthetic and real caricatures demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed domain adaptation algorithm. Code is available at: https://github.com/ZJULearning/CariFaceParsing .Comment: Accepted in ICIP 2019, code and model are available at https://github.com/ZJULearning/CariFaceParsin

Numerical simulation analysis of valve spool double-nozzle with abrasive flow

In order to study the numerical simulation of abrasive flow polishing small hole parts, the servo valve spool double nozzle parts were used as the research object, and the solid-liquid two-phase abrasive flow were used for numerical simulation, getting the dynamic pressure, velocity cloud and turbulent kinetic energy of the abrasive flow are obtained at different inlet velocities. Through the comparative analysis, the effect of the process parameters on the effect of the abrasive flow polishing small hole parts was obtained, which can provide a theoretical basis for the continuous improvement of the ultra-precision machining technology to promote the abrasive flow, so that the fatigue strength of the workpiece is improved, the reliability of the workpiece is enhanced and its service life is prolonged