This days, the advanced networking centre (ANC) of Salzburg Research is organising a Workshop on “SECIT – Security IT”. This is a joint undertaking with UPT Timisoara, Rumania.
Our main idea is to join forces concerning evacuation scenarios: UPT for instance, offers know-how in the domain of object recognition, i.e., they can count the number of people by anlysing videos; companies such as Flexit, are looking for software (and know-how) that helps them developing smart evacuation systems; Salzburg Research/ANC offers know-how by developing models that combine object recognition techniques and evacuation needs and thus helps in linking knowledge from basic research with applied research. The following figure is adapted from a slide from TNO and tries to symbolise these relationships:
Also, I learned that data fusion is the technique that combines data from multiple sources in order to obtain satisfying results. Often, pure object recognition techniques are not sufficient, hence, one needs to combine various data sources (with varying degrees of trust and reliability).
August 25th, 2009
I happened to be member of the jury of the ITS project award. The idea of the award is to motivate high-school students to engage in science and technical development and secondly, to demonstrate the high quality of these kind of projects. The jury was composed of R. Hittmair (BCCS), U. Hofmann (FH Urstein), R. Meisl (Land Salzburg), M. Wallinger (Siemens Salzburg), B. Wieder (Palfinger) and S. Reich (Salzburg Research).
Nominees were
- BHAK Grazerbach: Archment – Archeology Management
- BHAK Wien 10: xpense Haushaltsbudget-Rechner
- HTL Braunau: Universal Web Control
- HTL Hallein: CAE – Computer Aided Education
- HTL Ottakring: MPZ MusicBuddy
- HTL Rennweg: “MMORPG”
- HTL Saalfelden: Motorisierte Knieschiene
- HTL Salzburg: VTTG – Voith Tension & Thickness Gauge
- HTL Wels: Modernisierung eines Kernspintomographen
- Karlsgymnasium Bad Reichenhall: Pathfinding
The winner is HTL Saalfelden, motorisierte Knieschniene. This is a device that is low(er) cost and lower weight for rehabilitation of knee injuries.
All presentations were top class!!! Many had videos to demonstrate usage scenarios (some of them even with a fancy storyboard – “Archeology Management”), all presenters were truly professional. Some of the projects had web-sites (“xpense“), some folders (“MPZ – MusicBody”), … the software demonstrated (live!) was of high quality; some even made it into products (such as “Universal Web Control”).
June 3rd, 2008
