This paper describes a novel approach for human gesture recognition from motion data captured by a Kinect camera. The proposed method is based on encoding the temporal history of input data using bidirectional Echo State Networks, whereas the output is computed by means of a multi-layer perceptron with softmax. Results achieved at the time-series classification challenge organized within the 20...

Among the various bulk 3D materials that have a strongly layered structure, the cuprates stand out both as being among the most “2-dimensional” (see below) and as possessing the most interesting phase diagram. The general structure and composition of the cuprates was briefly reviewed in lecture 2: here we concentrate on the phase diagram, just recalling that the basic structure consists of n Cu...

The complex interaction of polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) physisorbed onto end-grafted polymer brushes with focus on the temperature-responsive behavior of the system is addressed in this work. The investigated brush/multilayer composite consists of a poly(styrene sulfonate)/poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PSS/PDADMAC) multilayer deposited onto the poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-b-dimet...

cofe/cu multilayer nanowires were electrodeposited into anodic aluminum oxide templates prepared by a two-step mild anodization method, using the single-bath technique. nanowires with 30 nm diameter and the definite lengths were obtained. the effect of cofe layers thickness and annealing on the magnetic behavior of the multilayer nanowires was investigated. the layers thickness was controlled t...