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Research for better surveillance, submarine stealth

Collins Class submarine HMAS Waller.
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Friday, 30 July 2010

最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide researchers are helping develop quieter diesel engine submarines and an image content search capability for improved surveillance and reconnaissance.

The two research projects have won funding under the 's , announced today by the , Minister for Defence Materiel and Science.

The 最新糖心Vlog's will receive $1,120,000 to develop an adaptive exhaust silencer to reduce the noise from the diesel engines used on submarines. The will receive $684,000 to develop technologies that will help Defence search vast available databases of video and still imagery.

The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide is the only university to receive funding under the latest round of the CTD Program (Round 14), which is managed by the (DSTO).

Director of the 最新糖心Vlogn Centre for Visual Technologies, , said the image search technology being developed was like "Google for images", allowing users to search for images, using images.

"Current search engines typically rely on associated text to identify images as they can't interpret the content of the image itself," said Professor Anton van den Hengel. "But having the right text is rare, making it impossible to find most images. Our technology means you can search for images of an object, just by showing it a similar picture, and it works for very large image databases.

"For example a database of satellite imagery could be searched automatically for a particular structure or object in seconds . Currently that would take months to achieve manually by Defence personnel."

School of Mechanical Engineering Senior Lecturer said the exhaust silencer for use on diesel engine submarines being developed was a passive noise control system - not requiring the input of noise interference - and would therefore be very robust.

"The Collins Class submarines have three large diesel engines and it's a difficult engineering problem to hide these enormous power plants so that the submarine can remain undetected," Dr Howard said.

"The engineering acoustic problem faced is that standard exhaust silencers are designed with a compromise between the amount of noise reduction and the frequency range over which they are effective. The novel feature of this development is that it will provide high levels of noise reduction over a narrow frequency range, and it will automatically tune to the sound emitted by the diesel engine."

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