A: A key part of VISION 2020 is devolving decision making and planning to district level — the idea of planning services for units of one million people. Generally, when we have tried to plan for larger populations, we have not been successful. This has led some people to question whether national prevention of blindness programmes have any role in VISION 2020. Well managed national programmes ...

This chapter presents recent research results of our laboratory in the area of vision and locomotion coordination with an emphasis on foveated multi-camera vision. A novel active vision planning concept is presented which coordinates the individual devices of a foveated multi-camera system. Gaze direction control is combined with trajectory planning based on information theoretic criteria to pr...

The purpose of our study was to evaluate the characteristics and the changes of low vision patients over ten years in Korea, and to establish useful data for planning low vision services, active care and rehabilitation. We conducted a retrospective study of 681 low vision patients who visited two low vision clinics in Seoul from 1995 to 2008. Age and sex distribution, cause of low vision, type ...

This paper describes an automated planner for visual inspection and monitoring tasks using a robot mounted CCD camera. It is capable of finding heuristically near-optimal viewing positions for a series of visual tasks, and of ordering them and planning robot paths between them to produce a near minimal cost overall task plan for the sequence. It has been optimized for intervention-style tasks w...

This research describes the implementation of a vision-based algorithm that is capable of rapidly determining robotic grasp points for planar objects. A representation of the target and a quadtree expansion generate candidate grasps that are compared using a cost function. The approach returns the first acceptable grasp point at a given tree resolution. The system has an execution time on the o...

An advanced camera-equipped mobile robot is being built at the ChlU Robotics Institute to support research in control. perception, planning and related issues. It will bc used initially to continue and extend visual navigation work (the Cart Project) completed in 1981 at Stanford’s AI Lab, but is dcsigncd with mechanical, sensor and controller flexibility which should permit it to support a wid...

During the past four decades the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, has witnessed a remarkable rapid urban growth. This has coincided with lack of a planning framework, weak institutional and poor policies, which have caused haphazard and interrelated land use and transportation issues. Current land use and transport planning policies and practice in Jeddah seem to focus on different visions, caus...