Major Industry Awards Win

Seeing Machines Limited
10 April 2006



                            Seeing Machines Limited
                      ('Seeing Machines' or the 'Company')



Monday 10 April 2006

        Seeing Machines Wins Major Industry Awards for Glaucoma Project


Seeing Machines (AIM:SEE) was awarded two iAwards at the AIIA's gala
presentation dinner last Friday night (7 April) for its glaucoma diagnostic
device development.

•  The 'Local Industry Award' - for the most innovative ICT project
   undertaken by an Australian local industry company (small-to-medium enterprise),
   and

•  The 'Research and Development Award' - for the most outstanding ICT R&
   D project

The iAwards, Australia's premier industry awards for the Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) sector, are awarded by the Australian
Information Industry Association (AIIA) for outstanding ICT solutions across 15
categories from Agriculture & Primary Industries, e-Government & Service,
Research & Development through to Tourism & Hospitality.  In addition there are
five major awards: the Local Industry Award, Community Award, Innovative
Commercial Software Award, the Inspiration Award and the CSIRO Tony Benson
Award.

Seeing Machines won the iAward for the Research and Development category, and
then also picked up the major Local Industry Award for the most innovative ICT
project undertaken by an Australian SME.

Seeing Machines is developing the world's first non-contact objective device for
diagnosing glaucoma and a range of other eye diseases, utilising its
market-leading, patent-protected computer vision technology. These national
awards recognize the progress that has been made to date in this project and the
significant commercial opportunity arising from the pioneering work of the
Seeing Machines team and its colleagues at the Research School of Biological
Sciences at the Australian National University.  Seeing Machines would like to
thank the AIIA for its recognition of this important work.

The full list of iAwards is available at: www.aiia.com.au/i-cms.isp?page=1290.

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Enquiries:

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About the AIIA and the iAwards

Details about the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) are
available here: www.aiia.com.au/i-cms.isp?page=13

Details about the iAwards are available here: www.aiia.com.au/i-cms.isp?page=
243.


About Seeing Machines

Seeing Machines is an award winning Technology Company which focuses on vision
based human machine interfaces.  Formed in 2000 in Canberra, Australia, Seeing
Machines' purpose is to commercialise its computer-vision across a range of
industries and applications.

Seeing Machines deliver advanced computer vision solutions for researches and
developer in human factors, transportation safety, computer human interaction,
robotics, medical research and psychology.  The flagship product faceLABTM
provides an automated and contact-free gaze and head tracking technology, it
solves the problem of observing human behaviour naturally, non-intrusively and
with a high degree of accuracy and usability.

faceLABTM is a computer vision system that is able to measure the orientation
and position of a human head, as well as detect blinks and estimate
gaze-direction. It achieves all of this completely visually through a stereo
camera system connected to advanced image processing software, with no
attachments required on the subject.  The product is designed to allow human
factors researchers and designers assess the interaction of an operator in an
environment and this finds application in designing operator environments, such
as cockpits for cars, trucks, trains, and aeroplanes for instance, and other
industrial design applications, as well as medical and psychological research
situations.  The technology also has application in monitoring automobile
drivers and if it detects drowsiness or that the driver is distracted and their
attention has been diverted from the road, an alarm can be raised to alert the
driver to either pull over and rest in the case of drowsiness or to pay more
attention to the road.

faceLABTM works in real-time, enabling the behaviour of a subject to be tracked.
This technology is paving the way in promoting safer driving conditions and
works to enhance the driving experience and to eliminate accidents caused
through driver drowsiness or distraction.

There are many different sectors that can benefit from this revolutionary
software, for which it has been developed, including: automotive; academic
research; medicine/healthcare; defence; autostereoscopy (next generation
displays); sport; and games.

Seeing Machines is currently working with researchers from the Research School
of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University to enable a new
objective method for diagnosing and managing glaucoma, a leading source of
blindness.  This technology could complement or replace existing visual field
testing devices used by more than 70,000 ophthalmologists globally and may have
application in detecting other eye and neurological diseases.  Seeing Machines
is developing a technology based on a completely objective method that uses an
involuntary physiological response.  This has the potential to become a 'gold
standard' in the diagnosis and management of glaucoma to derive reliable,
repeatable results and greater diagnostic accuracy.



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