Thursday, December 15, 2005

[IVsource.net]: Latest News from IVsource.net (December 14, 2005)

New Articles (more info below):

Assistware Looking for New Talent to Expand Team
Assistware Technology, a longtime provider of systems using vision-based lane detection technology, is looking for new staff as they ramp up for some new projects, including IVBSS (see related article). A program manager, embedded hardware engineer, vision systems engineer, and systems engineers are being sought. Check the job descriptions by clicking the link on the IVsource homepage.

Seeing Machines Partners with Australian Researchers to Diagnose Drowsy Drivers
Australia’s ICT Centre of Excellence, National ICT Australia (NICTA) and Seeing Machines Limited, a global leader in computer vision technology, have signed a one year research collaboration agreement to explore the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to reduce road accidents relating to driver fatigue. The project will develop ICT solutions to detect the subtle shifts in muscular control and response during the onset of fatigue when driving; the phenomenon which leads to the well known“micro-nod”.

UMTRI Leads Winning Team for USDOT IVBSS Project
USDOT has awarded $25 million for the Intelligent Vehicle-Based Safety Systems Field Operational Test project to the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), which will be the largest FOT project of this type within the current government program.

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