2017-04-03
HKBU teams win nine top awards at International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
A delegation from HKBU won a total of nine top prizes, including two
Gold Medals with Distinction, two Gold Medals, three Special Awards, and
two Grand Prizes, at the 45th International Exhibition of Inventions of
Geneva held in Switzerland from 29 March to 2 April 2017.
This is the second year HKBU participated in this prestigious
international event. For two years running, HKBU is the only institution
in Hong Kong that all the projects it submitted won gold medals.
HKBU submitted four entries this year. The winning projects are:
-- “Fatigue Driving Detection and Alarm System” invented by Professor
Cheung Yiu-ming, Professor of the Department of Computer Science, which
won the Gold Medal with Distinction in the Computer Science Category
and the Swiss Automobile Club Prize;
-- The “Lanthanide Toolbox” developed by Dr Gary Wong, Associate
Professor of our Department, which clinched the Gold Medal in the
Medicine Category, International Innovation Award of the Polish Academy
of Science Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding (Special Medal) and
the Prize of the Malaysian Association of Research Scientists;
-- The “Portable Gait Analyser Functional Flow Chart” invented by
Professor Jeffrey Cheung, Adjunct Professor of the Department of
Physics, which won the Gold Medal with Distinction in the Sport
Category, and the Prize of the Romanian Association of Nonconventional
Technologies (Special Medal).
-- The “Portable Balance Scale”, also invented by Professor Jeffrey
Cheung, which won the Gold Medal in the Sport Category and the Prize of
the Romanian Association of Nonconventional Technologies (Special
Medal).
Extending his heartiest congratulations to the winning teams, President
and Vice-Chancellor Professor Roland Chin said the award-winning
inventions are all in high-impact areas tackling global real-world
problems such as fatigue-related road accidents for which many
researchers across the world have been working hard to come up with
solutions.
“HKBU researchers have found solutions that promise great
commercialisation potential. Our students and researchers have yet again
demonstrated that Hong Kong’s innovative R&D achievements are
highly regarded by international experts,” Professor Chin said.
The “Fatigue Driving Detection and Alarm System” invented by Professor
Cheung Yiu-ming uses detection and tracking technology to analyse a
driver’s facial expression and head pose captured by the real-time video
on a smartphone. An alarm is automatically set off to alert the driver
when symptoms of drowsiness manifest themselves.
The “Lanthanide Toolbox” invented by Dr Gary Wong is a new medical
imaging reagent that can detect Joubert syndrome and other genetic
disorders that come under an emerging class of disorders called
Ciliopathies. This new direct primary cilium marker is able to provide a
test result in a mere six hours at a fraction of the cost of the
current technology through a simpler process in an environment closer to
normal conditions and can achieve 100% accuracy.
The “Portable Gait Analyser Functional Flow Chart” invented by Professor
Jeffrey Cheung assesses the way people walk and highlights their
biomechanical abnormalities. It can also be used in sports biomechanics
to help athletes run more efficiently and to identify posture-related or
movement-related problems for people with injuries. This new method
puts a single sensor behind a testee’s waist and requires him/her to
walk 20 steps. Compared with the traditional method that uses up to 15
cameras to take hundreds of pictures, this new invention is simpler,
faster and cheaper.
The “Portable Balance Scale”, also invented by Professor Jeffrey Cheung,
measures people’s balance index to reduce the risk of falling over. By
analysing the body’s moving amplitude when it tries to maintain balance
on an unstable platform, the specific index value can then be measured.
The greater the amplitude, the higher the index, with a high index
indicating poor balance capability. The whole measurement process is as
simple as stepping on a scale.
from HKBU eNews
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