Based on the number of fatalities per year, a persistent area of concern in mine safety continues to be equipment related. Data from the period 1995 through 2007 were studied in order to identify major hazards for und...Based on the number of fatalities per year, a persistent area of concern in mine safety continues to be equipment related. Data from the period 1995 through 2007 were studied in order to identify major hazards for underground mining equipment-related fatal incidents and to perform an analysis of those that occurred over the last 13 years. Reports on equipment-related fatal incidents were obtained from the Mine Safety and Health Administration （MSHA）. The results show that underground mining equipment including continuous miner, shuttle car, roof bolter, load-haul-dump （LHD）, Iongwall and hoisting contributed to a total of 69 mining-related fatalities. The study reveals that the major hazard for continuous mining equipment-related fatal incidents is ＂Failure of victim to respect equipment working area＂, while the highest number of fatalities for shuttle car is attributed to the hazard ＂Failure of mechanical components.＂ The study further reveals that the highest number of fatalities for roof bolter, LHD, and Iongwall are attributed to the hazards ＂Working under unsupported roof＂, ＂Failure of management to provide safe working conditions＂, and ＂Failure of mechanical components＂, respectively. It is determined that one fatality for the hoisting system is attributed to the hazard ＂Failure of mechanical components＂ and one to the hazard ＂Failure to follow safe maintenance procedure＂. Finally, approaches to prevention were also discussed in this paper.展开更多
Images with human faces comprise an essential part in the imaging realm. Occlusion or damage in facial portions will bring a remarkable discomfort and information loss. We propose an algorithm that can repair occluded...Images with human faces comprise an essential part in the imaging realm. Occlusion or damage in facial portions will bring a remarkable discomfort and information loss. We propose an algorithm that can repair occluded or damaged facial images automatically, named ‘facial image inpainting＇. Inpainting is a set of image processing methods to recover missing image portions. We extend the image inpainting methods by introducing facial domain knowledge. With the support of a face database, our approach propagates structural information, i.e., feature points and edge maps, from similar faces to the missing facial regions. Using the interred structural information as guidance, an exemplar-based image inpainting algorithm is employed to copy patches in the same face from the source portion to the missing portion. This newly proposed concept of facial image inpainting outperforms the traditional inpainting methods by propagating the facial shapes from a face database, and avoids the problem of variations in imaging conditions from different images by inferring colors and textures from the same face image. Our system produces seamless faces that are hardly seen drawbacks.展开更多
文摘Based on the number of fatalities per year, a persistent area of concern in mine safety continues to be equipment related. Data from the period 1995 through 2007 were studied in order to identify major hazards for underground mining equipment-related fatal incidents and to perform an analysis of those that occurred over the last 13 years. Reports on equipment-related fatal incidents were obtained from the Mine Safety and Health Administration （MSHA）. The results show that underground mining equipment including continuous miner, shuttle car, roof bolter, load-haul-dump （LHD）, Iongwall and hoisting contributed to a total of 69 mining-related fatalities. The study reveals that the major hazard for continuous mining equipment-related fatal incidents is ＂Failure of victim to respect equipment working area＂, while the highest number of fatalities for shuttle car is attributed to the hazard ＂Failure of mechanical components.＂ The study further reveals that the highest number of fatalities for roof bolter, LHD, and Iongwall are attributed to the hazards ＂Working under unsupported roof＂, ＂Failure of management to provide safe working conditions＂, and ＂Failure of mechanical components＂, respectively. It is determined that one fatality for the hoisting system is attributed to the hazard ＂Failure of mechanical components＂ and one to the hazard ＂Failure to follow safe maintenance procedure＂. Finally, approaches to prevention were also discussed in this paper.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60525108)the National Key Technology R & D Program of China (No. 2006BAH11B03-4)
文摘Images with human faces comprise an essential part in the imaging realm. Occlusion or damage in facial portions will bring a remarkable discomfort and information loss. We propose an algorithm that can repair occluded or damaged facial images automatically, named ‘facial image inpainting＇. Inpainting is a set of image processing methods to recover missing image portions. We extend the image inpainting methods by introducing facial domain knowledge. With the support of a face database, our approach propagates structural information, i.e., feature points and edge maps, from similar faces to the missing facial regions. Using the interred structural information as guidance, an exemplar-based image inpainting algorithm is employed to copy patches in the same face from the source portion to the missing portion. This newly proposed concept of facial image inpainting outperforms the traditional inpainting methods by propagating the facial shapes from a face database, and avoids the problem of variations in imaging conditions from different images by inferring colors and textures from the same face image. Our system produces seamless faces that are hardly seen drawbacks.
