Award win for glaucoma device

Seeing Machines Limited
14 March 2007



14 March 2007

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

            SEEING MACHINES WINS AWARD FOR GLAUCOMA DETECTION DEVICE


Seeing Machines (AIM: SEE), a leading developer of advanced computer based
imaging software systems, announces today that the company has been awarded
first prize in the health category of the Secrets of Australian ICT Innovation
award for the TrueField Analyzer(R), the revolutionary new medical device to
help doctors detect and manage glaucoma and other eye diseases.

Seeing Machines, in collaboration with its partner the Research School of
Biological Sciences at the Australian National University, is developing the
TrueField Analyzer, the world's first non-contact objective device to help
doctors diagnose glaucoma and a range of other eye diseases. The TrueField
Analyzer utilises Seeing Machines' market-leading, patent-protected computer
vision technology. The ICT Secrets award recognises innovation and the
development completed to date in addition to the outstanding commercial
potential for the TrueField Analyzer.

The 2006 Secrets of Australian IT Innovation Competition (Secrets) is the fifth
annual competition, and showcases Australia's best ICT innovations to a global
audience. Winners shared in $105,000 worth of prizes which were presented by the
Minister for Communications and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, at the Awards
Ceremony on Tuesday 13 March.

The Secrets competition is an initiative of the Committee Marketing ICT for
Australia (CoMICTA), a committee with members drawn from the Australian Federal
Government, State and Territory Governments, industry associations and research
bodies. The awards for ICT Innovation are across 7 major categories including:
Business Industrial (Software) Solutions; Commerce; Communication Applications;
Entertainment; Health; Learning and Security. Seeing Machines would like to
thank CoMICTA for its recognition of this key project.


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Enquiries:
Seeing Machines Limited   Insinger de Beaufort     Parkgreen Communications
Nick Cerneaz, CEO         Peter Ward               Victoria Thomas
[phone]       [phone]     [phone]
www.seeingmachines.com


Notes to editors:


About Committee Marketing ICT for Australia (CoMICTA) and the 2006 Secrets of
Australian ICT Innovation Competition are available at 
http://www.itsecrets.com.au/homepage.jsp?xcid=1


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
developers 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. Building on these unique face
tracking and pupil measurement and monitoring capabilities, the TrueField
Analyzer(R) is a development undertaken by Seeing Machines in partnership with
colleagues from the Research School of Biological Sciences (RSBS) at the
Australian National University (ANU).

The TrueField Analyzer(R) offers a new objective method to help doctors diagnose
and manage a range of eye diseases including glaucoma, age related macular
degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Glaucoma affects about 2-3% of the
population over 40 years of age and is a leading source of blindness. Unlike
most other devices available to the clinician the TrueField Analyzer is a
completely objective test and it is quick and easy for patients and technicians
alike. The device measures both eyes concurrently and due to the reliability
that arises from the objective nature of the test, it has the potential to
become a new 'gold standard' in the measurement of visual field defects and thus
in the diagnosis and management of disease such as glaucoma.

Seeing Machines' faceLAB(TM) product 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.

faceLAB(TM) 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.



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