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Friday, April 8, 2016
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MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY: Venkata Dinesh Manukonda
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: Free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN POSES FROM IMAGES USING SPACE COMPLETION ANIMATION OF PEOPLE
LOCATION: College of Engineering Conference Room, Textile's Building - Room 101E
ABSTRACT:
Identifying human poses from images is one of the important techniques that can be used in many applications. The technique can automatically detect and estimate the 2D poses of humans in images under uncontrolled imaging conditions. The identification of human poses from images is used in some important applications such as rescuing people using robots under natural disasters and estimating fitness conditions of people by taking the images of their sport activities. The goal of this project is to detect human poses in standing positions. In the project, some image transformation techniques are applied in obtaining the format of poses from images. An existing Space Completion Animation of People (SCAPE) algorithm was implemented to perform the detection and estimation of poses from images and video. SCAPE algorithm is a data-driven method for building a human shape model that spans variation in both subject shape and poses. This algorithm is based on a representation that incorporates both articulated and non-rigid deformations. The implementation of the identification of people poses was tested and validated on multiple image sets.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang
Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing and Dr. Lance N. Fiondella, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
TOPIC: IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN POSES FROM IMAGES USING SPACE COMPLETION ANIMATION OF PEOPLE
LOCATION: College of Engineering Conference Room, Textile's Building - Room 101E
ABSTRACT:
Identifying human poses from images is one of the important techniques that can be used in many applications. The technique can automatically detect and estimate the 2D poses of humans in images under uncontrolled imaging conditions. The identification of human poses from images is used in some important applications such as rescuing people using robots under natural disasters and estimating fitness conditions of people by taking the images of their sport activities. The goal of this project is to detect human poses in standing positions. In the project, some image transformation techniques are applied in obtaining the format of poses from images. An existing Space Completion Animation of People (SCAPE) algorithm was implemented to perform the detection and estimation of poses from images and video. SCAPE algorithm is a data-driven method for building a human shape model that spans variation in both subject shape and poses. This algorithm is based on a representation that incorporates both articulated and non-rigid deformations. The implementation of the identification of people poses was tested and validated on multiple image sets.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang
Committee Members: Dr. Liudong Xing and Dr. Lance N. Fiondella, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
*For further information, please contact Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8469, or via email at hwang1@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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UMass Law Review Symposium 2016: The Law's Solutions to the Opioid Crisis
- Location: Law School
, 333 Faunce Corner Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The UMass Law Review brings together top law officials, including legislators, law enforcement officers, and judges, to discuss how the law has affected the Opioid Crisis, and how the Opioid Crisis has affected laws in the Commonwealth. Join the UMass Law Review as we all learn of the law's involvement during this trying time for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To attend, please RSVP to Samantha Seserman, Executive/Symposium Editor - Law Review, at sseserman@umassd.edu
Breakfast
9:30-10:00 AM
Opening Remarks
10:00-10:30 AM
Samantha Seserman and Alex Rovzar
A Special Message from Tom Quinn: How the Opioid Crisis is Prevalent in Lawyering and the DA's Office
10:30-11:00 AM
Tom Quinn, District Attorney for Bristol County
Rehab or Jail?: Police Chiefs Speak Out on Those in Possession of Opiates
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Chief Edward J. Walsh of Taunton PD, Chief George McNeil of Somerset PD,
Chief Ken Berkowitz of Canton PD
Lunch
12:00-12:30 PM
A View from the Bench: How Judges See the Crisis in the Courtroom
12:30-1:30 PM
Hon. Bernadette L. Sabra, Hon. Daniel J. O'Shea, Hon. Kevan Cunningham
The Medical World: How Doctors See the Opioid Crisis Every Day
1:30-2:30 PM
Commissioner Monica Bharel, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Dr. Jonathan Schwartz, MD
Closing Remarks
2:30-3:00 PM
Samantha Seserman/Dee Dequattro
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Nursing, Health Services, Counseling Center, Lectures and Seminars
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2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: April 2-May 14, 2016
2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm
Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm
The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space.
The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm.
Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm.
Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
umassd.edu/universityartgallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
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Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense
- Location: DION Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: College of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Description: Michael Ferrick, RN, DNP(c)
Nursing DNP Candidate
Piloting: The "Dating Matters" Program to Increase Junior High and High Schools Knowledge of Teen Dating Violence
Date: April 8, 2016
Time: 4pm-5pm
Location: Dion, Room 203
DNP Capstone Committee:
Elizabeth Chin, PhD (Capstone Advisor)
Kathleen Downey, PhD, RN
Janet Sobczak, PhD, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC
RSVP to Vicki Vital: vvital@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Nursing, Lectures and Seminars
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CORSAIR Jobs Training for Staff
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This session will provide training in the use of the new CORSAIR Jobs system. This will be especially helpful for individuals who will be hiring students for the summer and the fall, but also for anyone who is new to using the system and would like training.
Please contact Verena Lisinski (vlisinski) x8609 with any questions.
- Topical Areas: Training, audience: Everyone
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When the United States Spoke French
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: free
- Contact: Boivin Center for French Language & Culture
- Description: The Boivin Center for French Language and Culture proudly presents 18th and 19th Century American historian, Francois Furstenberg who will present a lecture on his latest book When the United States Spoke French: Five refugees Who Shaped a Nation. The lecture will take place on Friday, April 8th in the Grand Reading Room of the Claire T. Carney Library at 4 PM. A Q&A, book signing and light reception will follow the lecture.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students, Foreign Literature and Languages
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SMART Plan (475) Rep - On Campus
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: To arrange a one-on-one appointment please contact Vito DeSimone on 877-457-1900 or vito.desimone@empower-retirement.com Location: CCB Room 306
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
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7:30 PM
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Stephanie Leombruno Senior Clarinet Recital
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Senior Clarinet Recital
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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3:00 PM
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Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Defense
- Location: DION Building
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: College of Nursing
- Description: Christine Costa, RN, DNP(c)
Nursing DNP Candidate
Reducing Perceived Barriers to Healthy Eating in the Client with Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders
Date: April 8, 2016
Time: 3pm-4pm
Location: Dion, Room 203
DNP Capstone Committee:
Christine Gadbois, DNP, APHN-BC (Capstone Advisor)
Amanda Wright, LMHC
Janet Sobczak, PhD, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC
RSVP to Vicki Vital: vvital@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Nursing
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BMEBT Seminar by Dr. Pia H. Moisander, Biology
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: BMEBT Seminar Series
- Description: TITLE: FUNCTIONAL POTENTIAL AS A DRIVER OF TAXON-SPECIFIC FITNESS IN CYANOBACTERIAL BLOOMS
Abstract:Cyanobacteria are a common component of phytoplankton of aquatic ecosystems. In freshwaters and some estuaries, dense accumulations, or blooms of cyanobacteria are a common phenomenon. Blooms may have a negative impact on recreational activities and they potentially impact human and ecosystem health by producing a variety of bioactive compounds, including some characterized as toxins (hepatotoxins, neurotoxins). Many bloom-formers are also capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen (N2), providing them a niche when combined N is limiting in the environment. A field study conducted in the St. Johns River, Florida, showed that by using facultative diazotrophy, the toxin-producing, N2-fixing cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii effectively competes in the phytoplankton community under both N limiting and N replete conditions. Studies from Klamath River and San Francisco Bay Delta, California, demonstrated microdiversity among the populations of Microcystis aeruginosa that is not evident in existing culture isolates, and gradual adaptation to the local conditions that may influence toxicity. Laboratory studies further suggested that light intensity plays a key role in the relative success of toxic and nontoxic strains of M. aeruginosa in blooms. These data demonstrate that a range of environmental and community-level interactions influence the composition and toxicity of cyanobacterial blooms.
- Topical Areas: University Community, Biology, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
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