• Extracting 3D models from images of the HMAS Sydney wreck
    Grace Beven, Murdoch University
    Researchers:
    Dr Andrew Hutchison, Curtin University
    Andrew Woods, CMST @ Curtin
    Paul Bourke, iVEC@UWA
    2012

    The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of current photogrammetry technology in automatically generating 3d models from images of the HMAS Sydney and NSK Kormoran ship wrecks. The software being explored includes PhotoSynth, 123D Catch, PhotoScan, PhotoModeler, and 3 Bundler/PMVS based programs, VisualSFM, SFM Toolkit 3 and OSM Bundler. A fair amount of manual manipulation of point clouds is required for some of the software bundles (especially Photosynth), MeshLab has been used for point cloud cleaning and conversion.

  • Molecular dynamics simulation study into the interaction of glycerol and ethylene glycol
    Chris Malajczuk, Curtin University
    Researchers: Prof. Ricardo L. Mancera, Curtin University
    2012

    Full title: Molecular dynamics simulation study into the interaction of glycerol and ethylene glycol with hydrated phospholipid bilayers

    Cryogenic storage protocols have been developed and adopted for upwards of 100 plant species world-wide, however the development of such cryostorage methods is often time consuming and expensive due to the fact that each protocol is developed on a trial-and-error basis. Thus, an in-depth understanding of the underlying biochemical processes occurring during cryostorage is essential to expedite the development of robust and successful cryogenic approaches.

  • Compression and Multi-resolution for Radio Astronomy Images
    Andrew Cannon, University of Western Australia
    Researchers: A/Prof Slava Kitaeff, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)
    2012

    Joint iVEC/ICRAR internship

    This project evaluates the JPEG 2000 image compression standard and framework for radio astronomy images. New planned and developing radio telescopes, such as MWA, ASKAP and SKA will produce volumes of data exceeding the entire global Internet traffic.  Once fully operational, a single raw image cube from ASKAP will be over 2TB in size.  With images on this scale, even basic operations, such as viewing, will become problematic. It would take many hours or even days to download an image to a desktop computer. Thus, an entirely new paradigm is needed to allow scientists to access and analyse the images of the Universe that will soon be available to them.

  • Quantum Discord
    Christopher Murphy, University of Western Australia
    Researchers: Prof Jingbo Wang, University of Western Australia
    2012

    Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a microprocessor doubles approximately every two to three years, in particular simple semiconductor devices (mainly transistors) shrunk from 45nm in 2008 to 22nm in 2011. Given that the inter-atomic distances are well within the realm of quantum mechanics and that inter-atomic spacing of silicon is on the order of 0.1nm it is clear that further increases in transistor density will soon start to introduce quantum mechanical effects such as superposition of states, entanglement and interference.

  • A database driven I/O server for serving data slices to distributed applications
    Harrison Black, Auckland University of Technology
    Researchers:
    W/Prof. Andreas Wicenec, ICRAR
    Derek Gerstmann, ICRAR
    A/Prof. Chen Wu, ICRAR
    A/Prof. Kevin Vinsen, ICRAR
    2012

    Due to the ever increasing sizes of datasets contained in a single file (now in the terabytes) a system is needed which can effectively store and retrieve data from files containing datasets. This also includes optimizing the way data is stored and accessed such as in-situ processing to reduce bandwidth. However this is not enough to compensate for future challenges, the system must be extendable to allow various additions of different types storage devices; as well as new data format standards that contain datasets (both of which may not exist yet).

  • Carbon Dioxide Storage in Geological Formations
    Jianxiong Dai, Curtin University
    Researchers:
    Stefan Iglauer, Curtin University
    Andrew King, Curtin University
    2012

    It is well known that CO2 contributes greatly to detrimental climate change (i.e. global warming). Therefore, some methods should be introduced to reduce CO2 emissions; indeed this is the reason why a carbon tax will be introduced in Australia. One proposed method is Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), where CO2 is compressed and injected deep underground into geological formations. Rock sample analysis is now necessary to ascertain the fluid dynamics to make sure it is safe and practical to do use this technology.

  • Visualisation Software for Multi-particle Discrete Quantum Walks
    Jonathon Goodwin, University of Western Australia
    Researchers: Prof Jingbo Wang, University of Western Australia
    2012

    The current project involves adaption of previously produced single-particle quantum walk real-time visualisation software (qwViz) to allow visualisation of multiple walkers and the increased information and attributes associated with such walkers.

    The program originally had an appealing and powerful graphics display, but also contained areas where immediate improvement could be undertaken, namely, the optional display of a graph indicating the particle’s probability-over-time for a selected vertex, and an increase in the number of initialisation states available.

  • Understanding the interactions of complex carbohydrates with cytokine
    Maryam Masoum, Curtin University
    Researchers: Prof. Ricardo L. Mancera, Curtin University
    2012

    Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are complex carbohydrates which are involved in a variety of biological processes through mediatory reactions with their partner proteins, such as cytokines. An increasing number of cytokines have been shown to specifically bind to GAGs with subsequent effects on their bioactivity and distribution. The interactions of sulphated GAGs such as heparin with cytokines are attracting great interest from the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry.

  • Calculation of electron-helium scattering for a continuum of electron energies
    Nicholas Wyatt, Murdoch University
    Researchers: Professor Igor Bray, Curtin University
    2012

    Electron scattering from helium atoms has been attracting the research interests of theoretical and experimental physicists alike due to its relatively simple structure, its abundance and its inert nature. One of its uses is in scattering apparatus calibration. However, this requires a wide range of energies. The Convergent Close Coupling (CCC) with the Multi configuration (MC) approach was used to make accurate elastic differential cross section (DCS) calculations, and then cubic spline interpolation was used to obtain the DCS at any energy.

  • Emotion Behaviours of Intelligent Agents
    Ran Li, Curtin University
    Researchers: A/Prof Ling Li, Curtin University
    2012

    Virtual Environments (VE) provide a way to combine some best features of the real-world information nevigation - memory positioning and visual cues - with those best features of on-line nevigation - fast search, sorting and cross-referencing. That is to say, in a well-developed VE, data can be retrieved, sorted or manipulated in the same way as that in the real-world.


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