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- Andersson, David, 1978, et al.
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Reflections on evaluating Challenge Lab by applying a proposed scheme for Sustainability Transition Experiments
- 2016
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In: IST 2016 Book of Conference Papers.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Challenge Lab (CLab) is a neutral arena for triple helix stakeholders and an educational platform for master students to addresses complex challenges and system lockins. By the end of its third year, the CLab will have hosted nearly 100 students, producing 23 master thesis projects and 13 course projects. We present an evaluative case using the scheme proposed by Luederitz et al. (2016) for sustainability transition experiments which includes four main questions and a set of indicators for each question. We end with some general reflections on the evaluation method.
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- Holmberg, John, 1963, et al.
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Students guiding societal transitions - examples from Challenge Lab at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2016
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In: 8th Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (EESD) in Bruges, Belgium.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Engaging in sustainability transitions of socio-technical systems, where universities need to collaborate with the public- and private sector (together forming the triple helix) is often hindered by various kinds of lock-ins. Actors are in general divided in silo-settings dealing with one issue at a time having narrow perspectives, vested interests and serve goals of sub-systems (or even individual departments) instead of the system as a whole. Furthermore, established socio-technical regimes are subject to path dependencies and incremental realignments. In Sweden, previous attempts to solve this include companies, governmental bodies and researchers acting individually to bring together stakeholders to address the lock-ins. As a complement, a neutral “Challenge Lab” arena built around master students from Chalmers University was established at one of the science parks in Gothenburg. The students may have a unique role to play in the transitions since they are knowledgeable yet unthreatening fostering dialogue between triple helix stakeholders. Interviews with involved actors indicate that students can act as a bonding medium by building trust between stakeholders yet challenging underlying assumptions. Other universities can adopt this model for educating students and engaging in sustainability transitions, even beyond the triple helix.
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- Larsson, Johan, 1990, et al.
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Backcasting from sustainability principles – a case from a regional climate policy process in West Sweden
- 2016
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In: IST 2016 Book of Conference Papers.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Global sustainability goals and radical innovation put many of today’s societal systems under pressure. It is a question of transitions, where new governance- approaches are sought after to guide, induce and accelerate the transitions into desirable pathways. In this paper a regional policy process aiming at creating a new climate strategy for the region is studied. The process in which 100 stakeholders took part followed a backcasting-approach from sustainability principles and had the ambition to integrate social, economical and ecological dimensions of sustainability. The results point at that principles- based approaches can play a role in addressing the complex issues ahead as they: (1) can open up for transformation by guiding thinking beyond today’s unsustainable and locked-in systems; (2) support the handling of complex issues and frame challenges for integrated measures, and; (3) form a common ground as shared mental models to in dialogue foster perspective awareness, trust-building and create new actor-constellations for future collaboration.
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- Larsson, Viktor, et al.
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Outlier rejection for absolute pose estimation with known orientation
- 2016
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In: British Machine Vision Conference 2016, BMVC 2016. ; 2016-September, s. 45.1-45.12
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Estimating the pose of a camera is a core problem in many geometric vision applications. While there has been much progress in the last two decades, the main difficulty is still dealing with data contaminated by outliers. For many scenes, e.g. with poor lightning conditions or repetitive textures, it is common that most of the correspondences are outliers. For real applications it is therefore essential to have robust estimation methods. In this paper we present an outlier rejection method for absolute pose estimation. We focus on the special case when the orientation of the camera is known. The problem is solved by projecting to a lower dimensional subspace where we are able to efficiently compute upper bounds on the maximum number of inliers. The method guarantees that only correspondences which cannot belong to an optimal pose are removed. In a number of challenging experiments we evaluate our method on both real and synthetic data and show improved performance compared to competing methods.
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