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Home > Press > Janssen Industry Excellence Awards announced at AusBiotech 2012
• Company of the Year: Starpharma
• Emerging Company of the Year: Vaxxas
• Industry Leadership award: Dr Andrew Baker (posthumous)
Melbourne-based Starpharma has been named "Company of the Year" at Australia's premier annual gathering of the life sciences and biotechnology industries.
A gala event was held in Melbourne last night to officially launch AusBiotech 2012, and three awards were presented to honour the 'shining lights' of the sector.
The Janssen 2012 Industry Excellence Award for Company of the Year was handed to Starpharma while Brisbane-based Vaxxas was announced as Emerging Company of the Year (award for companies under 5 years of age).
The late Dr Andrew Baker was announced posthumously as a recipient of the Industry Leadership award.
AusBiotech's Chief Executive Officer, Dr Anna Lavelle, said each had made a significant contribution to the sector, and to the ongoing growth of Australia's bio-economy.
"These awards recognise the standard-bearers for excellence in our industry," Dr Lavelle said. "They also point to what can be achieved when scientific innovation is accompanied by the business acumen needed to bring novel medicines, medical devices and other new technologies to key markets."
"We should be proud not only that Australia has produced and supported these endeavours, but that they also show huge potential to improve the lives of people around the globe."
Starpharma is nearing completion of Phase III clinical trials of VivaGel - the first targeted treatment for the world's most common vaginal infection. Vaxxas is developing a method of delivering vaccines via a Nanopatch placed on the skin.
The late Dr Andrew Baker was a 28-year veteran of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, and helped to found several listed Australian companies.
Sponsors of the Awards, Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd, are pleased to congratulate the winners. Managing Director, Chris Hourigan, said: "Janssen is delighted to sponsor the Janssen Industry Excellence Awards. Australia is a recognised global hub of innovation and we are constantly impressed by the high calibre of science, spirit of collaboration and commercial acumen demonstrated by Australian biotechnology companies and researchers and, in particular, the winners of this year's awards. "
The AusBiotech conference is the largest event of its kind in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region for the biotechnology industry. AusBiotech 2012 will be held at the Melbourne Convention Centre, 30 October - 2 November.
More information on the award recipients is included below.
About Starpharma Holdings Limited
Melbourne-based Starpharma is an ASX 300 listed biotechnology company, which has a market capitalisation nearing $500 million. It has an advancing product portfolio (a near to final Phase III trial) and strategic global partners in diagnostics (Siemens), devices (Ansell, Okamoto), pharmaceuticals (GSK, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca) and agrochemicals (Nufarm and a number of unnamed multinational agrochemical companies). Starpharma's dendrimer technology (a nanotechnology) was discovered in Australia, has been developed in Australia and has received funding support from the Government, the world's leading public health body The National Institutes of Health, and investors from all corners of the globe. The broad applicability of this technology has opened up multiple product opportunities in pharmaceutical, drug delivery and agrochemicals. Starphama's lead product is VivaGel, the most advanced microbicide under development to treat a range of women's health ailments. Two concurrent Phase III pivotal trials investigating VivaGel as a treatment for bacterial vaginosis (BV) are expected to be concluded later this year. The completion of Phase III trials will pave the way for Starpharma to submit a New Drug Application to the US FDA for VivaGel as a treatment for BV. The global market for topical treatments for BV is estimated at US $300-$350 million. If successful, Starpharma will join a small group of Australian companies that have developed and commercialised a new chemical entity.
About Vaxxas – Emerging Company of the Year
Vaxxas Pty Ltd is a privately-held Australian biotechnology company focused on enhancing the performance of existing and next generation vaccines with its proprietary Nanopatch technology platform. Vaxxas' Nanopatch contains an ultra-high density array of projections – invisible to the naked human eye – that are dry-coated with vaccine. Application of the Nanopatch to the skin is pain free and rapidly delivers the vaccine to the abundant immune cell population immediately below the skin surface. In a wide range of preclinical studies Nanopatch delivery of vaccine achieves equivalent protective immunity as the needle and syringe – but with only one hundredth (1/100th) of the dose. It has also been shown that Vaxxas' proprietary dry-coating technology can eliminate the need for vaccine refrigeration during storage and transportation – removing the resource burden of maintaining the "cold chain". Vaxxas' Nanopatch technology originated from Professor Mark Kendall's research group at the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at The University of Queensland. Vaxxas is backed by a strong group of venture investors including One Ventures, Brandon Capital, Healthcare Ventures, and the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund, who invested $15million into the venture. Vaxxas is establishing operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to expand access to global pharmaceutical partners and complement the company's research and development operations based in Queensland.
About Dr Andrew Baker – Industry Leadership Award
The late Dr Andrew Baker was a veteran of 28 years' experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. This included work in the USA for companies including Genentech, Bayer and Johnson & Johnson. More recently as a Partner at GBS Venture Partners, Dr Baker helped to found several listed companies in Australia, assisting them with commercial growth and product development. He was on the board of Hatchtech Pty Ltd, Spinifex Pty Ltd, Verva Ltd and Xenome Ltd. Dr Baker held a Bachelor of Science with Honours in genetics from the University of Sydney, and completed his PhD in Philosophy at the Australian National University, in Canberra. He passed away on Sunday 18 March 2012 from cancer at the age of 50. Dr Baker is survived by his wife Nancy, son Sam and daughter Clare.
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Q:I understand nursing documentation can not be used to support codes, however if you are looking at ER documentation and the physician stated he/she had review nurse's notes and agreed with documentation, does that make the nurse's notes supporting documentation?
I feel it does as the physician has referred to the documentation.
My medical records department, however, feels that unless the physician specifically mentions each sign and symptom in nursing notes, it is not codeable. Who is correct?
A: Your Medical Records Department is correct, nursing department documentation cannot support codes. If the physician agrees with the nurse's documentation and that documentation is necessary for coding, he or she must write it.
We can not assume what the physician means when he or she indicates that he or she "agrees with the documentation." Agreeing with the documentation may mean in general terms and not "in fact." We alleviate "assumption coding" by placing the responsibility on the physician to write his impressions/diagnoses.
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Throughout this specification we will be using the term MPEG as a generic reference to a family of international standards set by the Motion Picture Expert Group. MPEG reports to sub-committee 29 (SC29) of the Joint Technical Committee (JTC1) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC).
Throughout this specification the term H.26x will be used as a generic reference to a closely related group of international recommendations by the Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). VCEG addresses Question 6 (Q.6) of Study Group 16 (SG16) of the International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T). These standards/recommendations specify exactly how to represent visual and audio information in a compressed digital format. They are used in a wide variety of applications, including DVD (Digital Video Discs), DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting), Digital cinema, and videoconferencing.
Throughout this specification the term MPEG/H.26x will refer to the superset of MPEG and H.26x standards and recommendations.
There are several existing major MPEG/H.26x standards: H.261, MPEG-1, MPEG-2/H.262, MPEG4/H.263. Among these, MPEG-2/H.262 is clearly most commercially significant, being sufficient in many applications for all the major TV standards, including NTSC (National Standards Television Committee) and HDTV (High Definition Television). Of the series of MPEG standards that describe and define the syntax for video broadcasting, the standard of relevance to the present invention is the draft standard ITU-T Recommendation H.264, ISO/IEC 14496-10 AVC, which is incorporated herein by reference and is hereinafter referred to as "MPEG-AVC/H.264".
A feature of MPEG/H.26x is that these standards are often capable of representing a video signal with data roughly 1/50th the size of the original uncompressed video, while still maintaining good visual quality. Although this compression ratio varies greatly depending on the nature of the detail and motion of the source video, it serves to illustrate that compressing digital images is an area of interest to those who provide digital transmission.
MPEG/H.26x achieves high compression of a video signal through the successive application of five basic mechanisms:
Mechanisms 2) and 3) are accomplished by defining a predicted value for each pixel in a video frame, based on previous and future video frames in a sequence of video frames. The aggregation of these predicted pixel values is referred to as a predicted frame.
The MPEG-AVC/H.264 standard defines a syntax that allows the transmission of prediction parameters that fully describe how to generate the predicted frame from previous and future frames. The MPEG-AVC/H.264 standard also defines the syntax for describing the difference of a video frame from the predicted frame. In general, it is possible to create a predicted frame whereby far fewer bits are required to transmit the prediction parameters and the difference from the predicted frame, than would be required to transmit each pixel value from the original video frame.
Conceptually, the prediction parameters defined in the MPEG-AVC/H.264 standard can be thought of as describing the motion of objects within a sequence of video frames from one frame to the next. The process by which the best prediction parameters are determined is called motion estimation.
This invention addresses an improved method and system to perform motion estimation for MPEG video streams.
The present invention is directed to a method of motion estimation, the method comprising the steps of:
The present invention is directed to a system for motion estimation, the system comprising:
The present invention is further directed to a computer readable medium said medium comprising:
By way of introduction we refer first to
An MPEG video transmission is essentially a series of pictures taken at closely spaced time intervals. In the MPEG/H.26x standards, a picture is referred to as a "frame", and a "frame" is completely divided into rectangular sub-partitions known as "picture blocks", with associated "motion vectors". Often a picture may be quite similar to the one that precedes it or the one that follows it. For example, a video of waves washing up on a beach would change little from picture to picture. Except for the motion of the waves, the beach and sky would be largely the same. Once the scene changes, however, some or all similarity may be lost. The concept of compressing the data in each picture relies upon the fact that many images often do not change significantly from picture to picture, and that if they do the changes are often simple, such as image pans or horizontal and vertical block translations. Thus, transmitting only block translations (known as "motion vectors") and differences between picture blocks, as opposed to the entire picture, can result in considerable savings in data transmission.
Usually motion vectors are predicted, such that they are represented as a difference from their predictor, known as a predicted motion vector residual. In practice, the pixel differences between picture blocks are transformed into frequency coefficients, and then quantized to further reduce the data transmission. Quantization allows the frequency coefficients to be represented using only a discrete number of levels, and is the mechanism by which the compressed video becomes a "lossy" representation of the original video. This process of transformation and quantization is performed by an encoder.
Referring now to
With regard to the above description of
The MPEG-AVC/H.264 standard addresses many of the important issues relating to the exploitation of redundancies in video. The algorithms used to encode an MPEG-AVC/H.264 stream take advantage of both spatial and temporal redundancies in the video sequence. Spatial redundancy occurs when picture elements (pixels) are replicated within the same video frame. Temporal redundancy occurs when pixels are replicated in one or more successive video frames. The ability of an MPEG-AVC/H.264 video encoder to exploit temporal redundancy is what provides much of its compression efficiency.
Each frame of a video sequence can be encoded as one of two types—an Intra frame or an Inter frame. Intra frames (I frames) are encoded in isolation from other frames, compressing data based on similarity within a region of a single frame. Inter frames are coded based on similarity a region of one frame and a region of a successive frame.
In its simplest form, an inter frame can be thought of as encoding the difference between two successive frames. Consider two frames of a video sequence of waves washing up on a beach. The areas of the video that show the sky and the sand on the beach do not change, while the area of video where the waves move does change. An inter frame in this sequence would contain only the difference between the two frames. As a result, only pixel information relating to the waves would need to be encoded, not pixel information relating to the sky or the beach.
An inter frame is encoded by generating a predicted value for each pixel in the frame, based on pixels in previously encoded frames. The aggregation of these predicted values is called the predicted frame. The difference between the original frame and the predicted frame is called the residual frame. The encoded inter frame contains information about how to generate the predicted frame utilizing the previous frames, and the residual frame. In the example of waves washing up on a beach, the predicted frame is the first frame, and the residual frame is the difference between the two frames.
In the MPEG-AVC/H.264 standard, there are two types of inter frames predictive frames (P frames) are encoded based on a predictive frame created from one or more frames that occur earlier in the video sequence. Bi-directional predictive frames (B frames) are based on predictive frames that are generated from frames either earlier or later in the video sequence.
Referring now to
In MPEG-AVC/H.264, pixel values are predicted from previous frames through block-based motion compensation. In block-based motion compensation the frame being encoded is the current frame; the frame(s) from which the prediction for the current frame is being estimated is the reference frame(s).
In block-based motion compensation, each current frame is divided into rectangular blocks of pixels. MPEG-AVC/H.264 allows several different block sizes, but the most commonly used size is 16�16, also called a macroblock. For each such block in the current frame, a predicted block of the same size in the reference frame that has similar pixel values is identified. This block in the reference frame is used as the prediction for the pixels of the block in the current frame. The encoded video steam will then contain motion information that describes the locations of the predicted blocks in the reference frame and pixel information describing the differences between the blocks in the current frame and the predicted blocks. Since the number of bits required to encode the motion information and the prediction residual is on average much less than the number of bits required to encode the original pixel information, block-based motion compensation is vital to the coding efficiency of the H.264 standard.
The coding efficiency achieved through block-based motion compensation is dependent on accurate motion estimation. Motion estimation is the process by which blocks in the reference frame are chosen to be predicted blocks. Typically, motion estimation is performed through a process called block matching. The block in the current frame will be compared to a set of blocks in the reference frame, and a cost estimate is calculated for each block. Each block in the reference frame has a corresponding candidate motion vector that defines the difference of its location in the reference to the location of the block in the current frame. The block that results in the lowest cost estimate is chosen as the predicted block.
The cost estimate used for block matching is typically based on a distortion measure, which quantifies the difference between the block in the current frame and the block in the reference frame. The most commonly used distortion is the Sum of Absolute Differences (SAD), but many other applicable distortion measures exist and are often used in block matching motion estimation algorithms. The cost estimate can also be based on factors, other than the difference between the current and reference blocks, which can affect the rate or quality of the encoded video stream. For example, the cost function can incorporate a penalty based on the estimated required number of bits to encode the prediction parameters for the block.
Computational resources make it infeasible to perform this block matching with every block in the reference frame, so a subset of blocks from the reference frame must be chosen for block matching. The simplest and most common algorithm for block matching is called Full Search Block Matching (FSBM). Although the preferred embodiment of the present invention makes use of FSBM for block matching, it is not the intent of the inventors to restrict the invention to the use of FSBM. Any block matching algorithm may be used as determined by the implementor. Referring now to
One common approach to the placement of a FSBM search window 106 is to centre it in reference frame 108, based upon the position of the current block 104. In this case (off_x, off_y)=(0,0) for all blocks. A FSBM algorithm using this co-located search window placement method leads to a very efficient hardware implementation that can take advantage of the regular and predictable memory access requirements inherent in this algorithm. The disadvantage of this method is that for sequences with high motion, a large search window may be required for satisfactory encoding efficiency, which adds to the computational resource requirements of the motion search, and ultimately the cost of implementation.
Consider a video sequence of a bus driving along an empty city street. If the bus is moving slowly the co-located approach described above will work well, as a search through a reasonably sized search window will be able to identify the motion of the relatively still background and the slow moving bus. If the bus is moving quickly, it is likely that a reasonably sized search window would be inadequate to capture the motion of the bus. In either case, the blocks of pixels that comprise the bus will have similar motion characteristics. Motion characteristics are a set of parameters utilized to determine where current block 104 may appear within reference frame 108. This tendency for spatially neighboring pixel blocks to have similar motion characteristics is typical of most video sequences.
Search window placement methods that take advantage of the relationship of the motion characteristics of spatially neighboring blocks are able to obtain satisfactory motion compensation results using a much smaller search window than the co-located search window approach. However, these methods typically require the use of the motion estimation results of spatially neighboring block in determining the best placement for a search window. This adversely affects the suitability of the motion estimator for pipelined hardware architecture, since motion estimation for one block must be complete before motion estimation for the next block can be started. Also, these methods imply less regular and predictable memory accesses, hence requiring greater memory bandwidth.
Consider again the video sequence of the bus driving along a city street. In this sequence, the motion characteristics for each block would likely fall into one of two groups: one group corresponding to the background, and one group corresponding to the motion of the bus. If there were other vehicles in the video sequence, moving in different directions or at different speeds, other groups of pixel blocks with similar motion characteristics would be present.
The present invention includes a method and system for motion estimation that utilizes multiple independent full search block matching searches. The present invention searches for each of the predominant motion characteristics between two frames of a video sequences. In order to conduct such a search the present invention identifies the predominant motion characteristics for a frame of a video sequence. The present invention includes a block matching cost function that uses the information gained from identifying the dominant motion characteristics.
What follows is a description of a multiple full search motion estimation process, followed by a description of a particular method used to identify the predominant motion characteristics for each frame, which we refer to as Global Motion Estimation.
The motion estimation process comprises the following steps:
As described earlier, one defining characteristic of a block matching algorithm (including FSBMs) is the cost function used to evaluate each block in the reference frame. The cost function used for this method includes a measure of the distortion between the block in the current frame and the block in the search window of the reference frame, and a penalty based on the candidate motion vector and the results of the Global Motion Estimation method. The form of the block matching cost function is:
The preferred distortion measure is the SAD, but any other distortion measure is appropriate. The preferred motion vector penalty for each search window is a mathematical function of the absolute difference between the candidate motion vector and the dominant motion component associated with the search window. Any other penalty based a candidate motion vector and the dominant motion components or any other information obtained though the Global Motion Estimation is equally appropriate for use in the block matching cost function.
Referring now to
Although the above description of the motion estimation process makes reference to two motion components GDX0 and GDX1, the process may make use of any number of motion components and search windows.
While the placement of the FSBM windows are guided by a prediction of motion, the search window offsets are constant for all blocks in the current frame. Each FSBM process has all of the implementation benefit of the co-located search window approach as regular and predictable memory access requirements enable an implementation with lower memory bandwidth. While enabling these implementation efficiencies, the present invention provides the coding efficiency gains given by exploiting the correspondence of the motion of blocks in the same frame.
The present invention includes a method for the detection of the predominant motion characteristic for a current frame with respect to a reference frame. This method entails a low-resolution exhaustive full search of the reference frame for every block in the current frame. The results of this search are analysed using a histogram technique to identify the dominant motion component for the frame. This method is referred to as global motion component estimation.
Global motion component estimation comprises the steps of:
Any other distortion measure is equally appropriate for this method.
Referring now to
Although the present invention has been described as being implemented in software, one skilled in the art will recognize that it may be implemented in hardware as well. Further, it is the intent of the inventors to include computer readable forms of the invention. Computer readable forms meaning any stored format that may be read by a computing device.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to certain specific embodiments, various modifications thereof will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as outlined in the claims appended hereto.
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Born in Spain in 1542, John learned the importance of self-sacrificing love from his parents. His father gave up wealth, status, and comfort when he married a weaver's daughter and was disowned by his noble family. After his father died, his mother kept the destitute family together as they wandered homeless in search of work. These were the examples of sacrifice that John followed with his own great love -- God.
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