Estimating the viewpoint of objects in images is an important task for scene understanding. The viewpoint estimation accuracy, however, depends highly on the amount of training data and the quality of the annotation. While humans excel at labelling images with coarse viewpoint annotations like front, back, left or right, the process becomes tedious and the quality of the annotations decreases w...

A safety policy defines the set of rules that governs the safe interaction of agents operating together as part of a system of systems (SoS). Agent autonomy can give rise to unpredictable, and potentially undesirable, emergent behaviour. Deriving rules of safety policy requires an understanding of the capabilities of an agent as well as how its actions affect the environment and consequently th...

This paper introduces a representation for multiple view video to support high-quality interactive free-viewpoint rendering of moving people. Multiple wide baseline views are integrated into a view-dependent representation based on pair wise refinement of the visual-hull. An exact viewdependent visual-hull (VDVH) algorithm is presented to compute an initial approximation of the scene geometry. ...

Distributed System design is a highly complicated and non-trivial task. The problem is characterised by the need to design multi-threaded, multi-processor, and multimedia systems. Design frameworks such as Open Distributed Processing (ODP), the ITU/ISO standard, define a number of viewpoints from which the design of a distributed system should be approached. To use the framework, a design langu...

O n September 14, 2015, the LIGO interferometers made the first direct measurement of gravitational waves [1]. The historic discovery came nearly 100 years after Einstein showed that his general relativity theory predicts the existence of gravitational waves and over 50 years since the first quest to observe the Universe in gravitational waves [2]. The observed event, labeled GW150914, was the ...

EDI has been promoted as a technology which helps to reduce conflict and enhances collaboration and ‘partnership’ between trading organisations. Is this always the case? In what circumstances are organisations continuing to interact in adversarial ways, and for what reasons? To answer this question, we start by examining the development and application of an EDI network in the motor industry. w...

In this paper a reactive and concurrent control framework for viewpoint control is developed. The viewpoint control task is decomposed into three control objectives namely; obstacle avoidance, visibility and precision. A moving object is tracked in two panoramic sensors using color, and a scalar uncertainty metric of the object position estimate is introduced. Individual control objectives are ...

The sustainability debate concerns whether the world will experience stable or improving living standards for the foreseeable future, or whether the current trajectory will overtax the natural environment, leading to a ‘crash’ in living standards. This paper selectively reviews relevant research, focusing on both ecological concerns and technological progress, and asks whether sustainability wo...

In this paper we propose a new approach to software development which explicitly avoids the use of a single representation scheme or common schema. Instead, multiple ViewPoints are utilised to partition the domain information, the development method and the formal representations used to express software specifications. System specifications and methods are then described as configurations of r...

Thermal convection in a fluid layer heated from below (Rayleigh-Bénard layer) and flows between coaxial differentially rotating cylinders (Taylor-Couette system) have been investigated for more than a century, experimentally as well as theoretically. Both are attractive systems for laboratory investigations of fluid turbulence because visualizations and data gathering are easier than in experim...