Abstract: Two-dimensional face presentation attacks are one of most notorious and pervasive face spoofing types, causing security issues to facial authentication systems. To tackle these issues, a cost-effective face anti-spoofing (FAS) system based on acoustic modality, named as Echo-FAS, is devised, which employs a crafted acoustic signal to probe the presented face. First, a large-scale, high-diversity, acoustic-based FAS database, named as Echo-Spoof, is built. Based upon Echo-Spoof, we design a two-branch framework combining global and local frequency features of the presented face to distinguish live vs. spoofing faces. Echo-FAS has the following merits: (1) it only needs one speaker and one microphone; (2) it can capture three-dimensional geometrical information of the presented face and achieve a remarkable FAS performance; and (3) it can be handily allied with RGB-based FAS models to mitigate the overfitting problem in the RGB modality and make the FAS model more accurate and robust.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for the treatment of cancer using an ACAT1 inhibitor in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. The immune checkpoint inhibitor may inhibit the programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4), lymphocyte-activation protein 3 (LAG-3), or combinations thereof. The ACAT1 inhibitor may be avasimibe, pactimibe, or purpactins, without limitation.

Abstract: A cable-membrane tensegrity structure which is asymmetric, and construction method and design method thereof are provided. The cable-membrane tensegrity structure comprises a central opening and is formed by a ring cable (4) and three layers of radial cables comprising a suspension cable (1), a ridge cable (2) and a valley cable (3), wherein the suspension cable (1) is located above the ridge cable (2), the ridge cable (2) is located above the valley cable (3), wherein one end of each of the suspension cable (1), the ridge cable (2) and the valley cable (3) is connected to the ring cable (4), and the other end of each of the suspension cable (1), the ridge cable (2) and the valley cable (3) is connected to a peripheral supporting structure (7), wherein a coating membrane (5) is tensioned between the ridge cable (2) and the valley cable (3) that are adjacent to each other and function as a skeleton to tension the coating membrane (5).