Highway accidents significantly impact normal traffic flow. Consequently, automatic detection of abnormal traffic events has gradually attracted the attention of researchers interested in intelligent transportation system. This work presents a vision-based approach for automatic traffic congestion and incident detection. The proposed approach involves extracting entropy-based features to create...

This paper introduces a new concept for the area of video surveillance called Critical Evidence Snapshot. We show that automatic extraction and annotation of Critical Evidence Snapshots, which are defined as video snapshots that provide a piece of information that is both useful and new, is the key to improving the utility and efficiency of video surveillance systems. An implementation of an AC...

Glaucoma is a range of conditions that causes a loss of retinal ganglion cell axons within the nerve fiber layer resulting in vision loss. Although many novel treatments for glaucoma are being investigated, the mainstay therapy is control and reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP). Upon diagnosis, the setting of an IOP target is the first step in the management of any glaucoma patient. This ca...

Distributed robot control systems consist of mechanical systems powered by actuators that are under the control of computer systems that rely on sensor input, such as vision, touch and torque sensing. Often these systems are installed in production processes in which they must cooperate and collaborate with both humans and other robotic systems. This complexity requires a framework in which the...

• Planning and organising clinic-based and outreach activities. • Receiving and issuing supplies, including for operating theatre, the outpatient department, and refractive error services. • Making regular inventory reports and reordering when necessary to ensure that supplies are in stock. • Keeping track of accounting for the hospital or overall eye care programme and producing reports, inclu...

Cataract surgery is an efficient procedure, and is generally associated with good visual results. Nevertheless, cystoid macular edema (CME) may develop, and this can result in suboptimal postoperative vision. Many factors are considered to contribute to its development, and although the treatment options depend upon the underlying cause of CME, the usual therapeutic approach for prophylaxis and...

Complex distributed robot control systems consist of mechanical systems powered by actuators that are under the control of computer systems that rely on sensor input, such as vision, touch and torque sensing. Often these systems are installed in production processes in which they must cooperate and collaborate with both humans and other robotic systems. This complexity requires a framework in w...

Using software agents as next generation flexible components and applying reuse technologies to rapidly construct agents and agent systems have great promise to improve application and system construction. Whether built on conventional distributed computing and application management platforms, on a specialized agent platform, on web service technology or within a P2P infrastructure, agents are...

The Semantic Web vision involves the production and use of large amounts of RDF data. There have been recent initiatives amongst the Semantic Web community, in particular the Linking Open Data activity and our own ReSIST project, to publish large amounts of RDF that are both interlinked and dereferenceable. The proliferation of such data gives rise to millions of URIs for non-information resour...

In manufacturing and distribution, a core process is logistics, and the cost of logistics is roughly 10% of GDP in the US. Designing, managing, and improving industrial logistics systems has never been more challenging, or more critical to competitive success. Fortunately, rapid advance in computational technology promises to provide industrial logistics system designers the kinds of design too...