Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications carrier and largest single user of information technology (IT). In November 1990, the Australian federal government announced wide-ranging reforms and the introduction of competition within the telecommunications sector. Realising that it was essential for the corporation to leverage its use of technology on a firm-wide basis in order to remain ...

Vision is a crucial sensor. It provides a very rich collection of information about our environment. However, not everything in a visual scene is relevant for the task at hand. Feature-based attention has been suggested for guiding vision towards the objects of interest in a visual search situation. Computational models of visual attention have implemented different concepts of feature-based at...

We proposed a programmable system that control robotic arm to grasp objects with human interaction. We are able to detect multiple objects of various types. Our system invloves hand-eye calibration which determines the camera pose, vision detection which extract representative positions of objects, preprocessing which sets everything fine for vision algorithm, underlying control which actually ...

27, 2005 in Tomales Bay Institute in Point Reyes Station, CA. The meeting was convened by Tomales Bay fellows and writers Jonathan Rowe and Peter Barne; additional participants besides Stanislav Grof were film makers/story tellers/story analysts Jim Bonnet, Gene Hines, John Korty and Cornelia Durrant, Susan Strong from the Metaphor Project, and Jason Salfi from Earth Island Institute. The quest...

Growing number of scholars in sociology has come to terms that sociology, like everything else, is a product of particular historical conditions. As there is sociology of everything. You can turn on your sociological eye no matter where you are or what you are doing, taking for example, the latent reasoning usually adopted by sociologist in viewing issues as against some others who ignorantly e...

The theory of Service Oriented Environment (SOE) emerges with advanced connectivity of the Internet technologies, openness of business environment and prosperousness of business activities. Service, as a critical object impenetrating every corner of SOE, is a hot research topic in many research domains. Software Engineering (SE), as a subject in engineering field, its researchers pay more atten...

AVSS encompasses high-quality contributions in fundamental disciplines including image and signal processing, data fusion, pattern recognition and computer vision, and gives unique emphasis to crossdisciplinary and application-oriented papers. It brings together experts from the worlds of academia, industry and government agencies, provides an excellent forum for exchanging information and fost...

Lean production, which has revolutionary production management and practice manner, is the third milestone of human industrialization history. Its key point is to eliminate waste in all aspects of a firm’s production activities through establishing production system with high agility. It represents the tendency of modern manufacturing industry. It has been credited as the standard production ma...