The research summarised here is working towards automatic control systems for cameras, in support of remote meetings. Progress is reported on several fronts: use of active contours to track heads, stereo sound analysis; applying particle filtering to handle both visual and aural clutter; and the use of exemplars for stabilisation of inter-frame matching.

Bridge vibration control is an important issue whose purpose is to extend the structural service life of bridges. Normally, the bridge is modeled as an elastic beam or plate subject to a moving vehicle. However, the moving truck on a bridge is a complicated problem that must still be researched. In this paper, we propose a new method, to overcome the huge load in the bridge a load cell is used ...