Welcome
Welcome by the Head of Computer Science
Professor Hussein Suleman
On behalf of the Department of Computer Science, welcome to the annual School of IT showcase, where you can see the research and projects of our postgraduate students on display. During a pandemic, we argue that our mission to produce....
Welcome from the Director
Professor Ulrike Rivett
Welcome to the 2020 School of IT Virtual Showcase!
It is my great pleasure to welcome you to our first virtual event, which marks the year end of an unusual and challenging academic year. If we ever wanted to assess the....
Welcome from the Head of Information Systems
Professor Irwin Brown
On behalf of the Department of Information Systems we welcome you to this annual event where we are proud to showcase the work arising from the class of 2020. Despite the challenges brought on by the pandemic, our students have risen to the....
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Project Showcase
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A Comparative Evaluation of Deep Learning Approaches to Online Network Traffic Classification for Community Networks
By: Shane Weisz, Jonathan Tooke, Matt Dicks
Community networks have emerged as a promising solution to providing internet connectivity in low-resource rural areas around the world. In order to improve the network experience for the members of community networks, network traffic packet...
Agri-Track
UCT Honours
By: Jamie Seymour, Matthew Leslie, Warren Driver
The world’s population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050. The general consensus is that global agricultural production has to be increased by about 60-70 per cent from the current levels to meet the increased food demand in 2050....
An Investigation of a Game Generator Tool to Teach Recursion
By: Jecton Anyango
Learning programming is difficult for most students leading to high failure rates. Particularly, the recursion topic. Although games have been proposed given their motivational impact, developing educational games is difficult, expensive and time...
AquaLac Dashboard
Soil moisture management dashboard made for AquaCheck
By: Callum De La Hunt, Laura Osorhean, Ammar Canani
AquaCheck is a soil moisture management company that provides a range of services and products to farmers who want to improve their on-farm irrigation management. AquaCheck offers a variety of probes which measure soil moisture and temperature....
IS Hons Systems Development Project IS Masters by Coursework and Dissertation IS Masters by Coursework and Dissertation
Automatic Knowledge Discovery and Evolution
An Ontology for Supporting Knowledge Discovery and Evolution
By: Tezira Wanyana
Knowledge Discovery and Evolution (KDE) is of interest to a broad array of researchers from both Philosophy of Science (PoS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), Machine Learning and Data...
Autonomous Vehicles on the Roads of the Future
By: Rhett Sean Flanagan, Harry Heathcock, Kaedon Williams
Autonomous vehicles are an important topic when considering design problems relating to both current and future transit networks. The concerns raised surrounding autonomous vehicles relate to several factors, including safety and...
Bloom App
Bloom app and Team
By: Kayla Bailey, Matthew Lees, Ammaarah Abrahams
The South African floriculture market has seen exponential growth recently from both local and international buyers. This industry ensures the livelihood of thousands of South Africans –workers, farmers, wholesalers and exporters to name but...
IS Hons Systems Development Project IS Masters by Dissertation
CADaFloP
Exploring a Data Flow Model for the CARTA System
By: Dylan Fouché, Zainab Adjiet
The CARTA system is a tool for visualising and anaylsing large-scale astronomical imagery. As the volume of data produced from modern radio telescopy continues to increase rapidly, a robust and scalable architectural solution is required...
Carenet
Team 3 Project
By: Fazeelah Isaacs, Ricardo Jesus Machado, Yamkela Fayilane
The system our team has developed is a web-application for the company Carenet.
Carenet started in 2016. The company noticed a need in the market for a platform that connects carers and care seekers. The aim of Carenet is to take care...
Carta Volumetric rendering
CaVoluR
By: Shuaib Parker, Jonathan Weideman
The scientific field of astronomy has benefited greatly from the data boom of the 21st century. This wealth of data provides astronomers with a great opportunity for more detailed analysis, but it is also coupled with various challenges....
ClusterMol
Exploring clustering techniques to find dominant conformations of flexible carbohydrate molecules.
By: Wen Kang Lu, Nicholas Limbert, Robyn Mckenzie
Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulates the behaviour of molecules which are allowed to interact with one another over a fixed period of time; it outputs what is known as a trajectory of the behaviour observed. This trajectory is a record of the movement...
Co-Designing Apps
for the iNethi Community Wireless Network
By: Tristan Drummond, Keegan White
Ocean View (OV) is made up of a mixture of formal and informal dwellings and is an under-resourced community. The vast majority of residents in OV are bandwidth constrained since data rates in South Africa are comparatively expensive when compared...
CS Honours for Business Science CS Honours Project CS Masters by Dissertation
Cost-aware Internet Security Decision Model
By: Enock Mbewe
The current implementation of Internet Security services leaves users, especially those with limited computing skills, out of the security decision-making process. This is because security configuration parameters are often either hidden from the...
Creating a Virtual Cinematographer for the Automation of Lecture Recording
By: Mohamed Tanweer Khatieb
The increase in camera quality and reduction in price has yielded an opportunity for Universities to install cameras in lecture venues and record the lecturers’ presentations for students to review at a later stage. This paper explores the...
Data-driven Authoring of Large-scale Ecosystems
By: Konrad Kapp
In computer graphics populating a large-scale natural scene with plants in a fashion that both reflects the complex interrelationships and diversity present in real ecosystems and is computationally efficient enough to support iterative authoring...
Diarrhoea Outbreak Prediction Using Machine Learning
By: Tassallah Amina Abdullahi
Diarrhoea is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality on a global scale. In South Africa, it is the 3rd leading cause of death for children under five and 8th most preeminent cause of death in individuals of all ages. Investigations have shown...
Evolving Robot Bodies and Brains
A Computer Science Honours project investigating the impact of a complexity cost and environmental complexity on artificially evolved robots
By: Christina Spanellis, Brooke Stewart
An open question for both natural and artificial evolutionary systems is how, and under what environmental and evolutionary conditions complexity evolves. The arrow of complexity hypothesis posits that the most complex products of open-ended...
EXHIBIT
An online tool for digital presentations of cultural heritage artefacts
By: Aaisha Dout, Ceara Mullins
Digital archives— collections of multimedia objects — are ideal for preserving and valourising cultural heritage. Web portals allow these collections of cultural heritage artefacts, digitised in the form of images, videos, audio, etc.,...
Exploring Virtual Support for FTD Parents in Bandwidth-constrained Communities
By: Sarah Dsane
Several human computer interaction (HCI) research have informed the design of maternal health interventions in low-resourced communities. However, such efforts have failed to specifically design resources to highlight the potential window of...
Fast Presenter Tracking using Computationally Inexpensive Algorithms
TRACK4K
By: Charles Fitzhenry
The Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching implements an automated lecture recording system at the University of Cape Town and are exploring the potential of using a 4K or higher resolution static camera to capture lectures. However, since...
Freelancer Management System
By: Tanaka Gandidzanwa, James Tully, Tonny Mtae, Sasha Chiketsani
Hyperli is a curated marketplace which connects local businesses to local customers. Customers use the Hyperli website to discover new restaurants and activities within their immediate area and are offered discount offerings and pre-packaged...
GlyCarbo
Carbohydrate Building Web Application
By: Tristan Wood, Renee Panday
The goal of this project was to create a usable web tool that combined Glycano (a 2D carbohydrate builder) and CarbBuilder (which predicts 3D structures), for the 2D graphical building of carbohydrate molecules and 3D visual representation of them....
Green Gecko Paint Management System
A bespoke, two-part system for handling the company's paint division
By: Thamsanqa Hoza, Kaluwa Siwale, Busenati Mwati, Mpumelelo Tsotsha
Green Gecko Frames is a small sole proprietor business based in Cape Town that have been in the framing business for close to 20 years. They have recently expanded their service offerings to include the sale of Tjhoko Paints as well as...
IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project IS Hons Systems Development Project
HERIPORT - A National Heritage Portal Built From Metadata Aggregation
By: Alex Priscu, Toshka Coleman, Ashil Ramjee
Digital heritage portals have recently been introduced with the purpose of preserving and accessing historical information. Heritage portals that encompass archives from various external sources have been implemented internationally for projects...
Hubble SkyLab
TecSupport X Hubble Studios
By: Shivant Maharaj, Taboka Velempini
Hubble Studios is an EduTech company that prides itself in creating industry-leading educational software that has grabbed the attention of clients such as Harvard University, EdX, and Johnson & Johnson institute. Their growth, much like...
Inclusive Practices Africa
By Team SIX
By: Nikhil Maharajh, Edwin Ndaba, Maryam Seboa, Kimberley Mugadza
Third year information systems students Edwin Ndaba, Maryam Seboa, Kimberley Mugadza and Nikhil Maharajh, comprising Team 6 built a new website for the Inclusive Practices Africa unit in the Department of Health and Rehab of UCT. Our site provides...
IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project IS Hons Systems Development Project
IsiXhosa weather forecast generation
By: Zola Mahlaza
Building natural language generation systems for Nguni languages is difficult because traditional realisation solutions are incompatible and current extensions are unsuitable for general-purpose use. In this work, I will showcasing a...
Low Cost Virtual Reality User Interface for Educational Games
Study Context & Experiment Overview
By: Tashiv Sewpersad
This project investigates whether a computer vision based interface is comparable to a traditional external controller in terms of immersion, in the context of mobile virtual reality simulations. Current popular interface approaches trade monetary...
Low-Resource Language Modelling
By: Stuart Mesham, Luc Hayward, Jared Shapiro
Given a sequence of context words, a language model predicts the next word in the sentence. More formally, a language model assigns a probability to a sequence of words. Modern language models are trained on large datasets, however, many of South...
CS Honours Project CS Masters by Dissertation High Performance Computing
Milk Matters App 2.0
Leveraging cloud services to improve the human milk donation experience.
By: Gerhard Serton, Gustavo De Souza Mendes, Dino Bossi
Human breastmilk donation is not a widespread practice, and thus creating a positive and motivating donation experience is important in order to retain those who do choose to donate. Milk Matters, a human breastmilk bank, previously hosted...
Morphological Segmentation of Low Resource Languages Using Machine Learning
MORPH-SEGMENT
By: Tumi Moeng, Sheldon Reay, Aaron Daniels
We investigated the process of Morphological Segmentation being applied to the low resource Nguni language group with a specific focus on isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu and siSwati. We did this through the use of three...
CS Honours Project CS Honours in Information Technology CS Minor Dissertation
Open Up Open Box
Meeting Management System
By: Jo Theron, Charl Jones, Mustafa Gulamhussein
Open Box is a global software development consultancy firm that operates in the Real Estate industry and serves clients mainly in the US and the UK. Open Box is struggling with its current Outlook-based boardroom-booking system as it lacks...
Orchard Row Detection
Finding orchard rows from tree/shrub data
By: Tim Simons, Ryan Mccarlie, Leonard Chuang
The human population has grown rapidly in recent years, significantly increasing the need to optimize and safeguard food production and security. Subsequently, the agricultural industry is faced with the challenge of meeting the growing demand for...
PLANER
Ground Plane Removal
By: Lynolan Moodley, Daniel Bowden, Chiadika Emeruem
To improve orchard management, tree heights can be extracted from digital elevation models (DEMs)—raster height maps where pixel intensity represents ground height. DEM data can be collected via drones. Ground plane removal involves...
PyPiGame
Using the Raspberry Pi and games to teach programming
By: Martin Flanagan
Programming in Computer Science can be challenging for students to learn. Students need to learn both a programming language and general programming constructs. This project aims to find out whether integrating 2D games and general programming...
SDN Traffic Engineering using Segment Routing and DNS
Improving Quality of Experience in SANREN
By: Luqmaan Salie
NRENs in developing regions such as Africa experience various performance issues due to inadequate infrastructure and resources. Software defined networks (SDN) and segment routing (SR) are proposed in this research as possible solutions to the...
SoDA: Social Dance App
By: Kouthar Dollie, Carryn Joseph
The capabilities of technology today has allowed for ease of storing and retrieval of dance media files. However, due to the rich semantic content of dance media files and the volume of dance media available, it becomes a challenge to search a...
South Africa Makes 3D Printing Platform
3rd Year System Development Project
By: Dylan Ribbans, Kanyisa Mahuzi, Ntandoyenkosi Mendu, Naledi Tlhakudi
South Africa Makes Online 3D Printing Portal
Background
South Africa Makes (SAM) is a Cape-Town-based business founded by Dr Riyad Domingo and Dr Cherise Dunn, this business provides low volume 3D...
IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project IS Hons Systems Development Project
Team 3 - Brownie Points
IS Honours
By: Sujala Singh, Kimera Saroop, Brittni Schwartz
The H.O.P.E. (Human Rights, Optimism, Pride and Experience) project is inspired and sponsored by Brownie Points. Brownie Points is an organisation that empowers and celebrates good deeds. Their vision is a social economy that unlocks the value of...
THCT Storytelling Platform
Tygerberg Hospital Children's Trust
By: Jenna Jones, Tanweer Ismail, Mahima Daya, Gordon Cook
The Tygerberg Hospital Children’s Trust, founded in 2011, is a registered Trust and Public Benefit Organization with the sole objective of supporting mother and child patients at the Tygerberg Hospital....
IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project IS Hons Systems Development Project IS Masters by Coursework and Dissertation IS Masters by Coursework and Dissertation
The Analogue Collective
Project Finessers- Team 4
By: Intisar Constant, Haadiya Jeelabdeer, Kirin Maharaj, Richard Delbridge
FreshGold SA is an leading trader of fresh produce in South Africa that operates in the local and international market. It procures fresh produce from selected producers and then sells it to a set of customers. FreshGold does not have extensive...
IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project IS Hons Systems Development Project
TRAK
UCT Residences Booking System
By: Temoso Masilo, Rufaro Chibanda, Anderson Mupambwa, Matete Kopano Lebakeng
TRAK: The UCT Residences Booking System
UCT Student Housing and Residence Life faces the following challenges: There is no system that allows students in UCT residences to book for desired facilities such as...
IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project IS Hons Systems Development Project
UCT Sports Centre
Club Administration and Registration System
By: Julian Smart, Caitlin Murphy, Nishen Naidoo, Tristan Fiser
The UCT sports centre website allows UCT students and staff members to browse the various clubs that the University has to offer, chat via the website, be able to register for sporting clubs online as well as be able to manage their...
IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project IS Hons Systems Development Project
Vision Healthcare Management System
Developed to help streamline the management and operations of Vision Medical Suite
By: Justin Dorman, Zach Bresler, Chad Piha
Vision Medical Suite (VMS) is a Non-Profit Company that provides free medical and dental care to patients from their affiliated beneficiaries, being orphanages, frail care centres and homes for the mentally and physically challenged. They do this...
Visualizing and Simulating Africa's Internet Topology
Simulating Africa's Internet Topology
By: Willie Macharia, Blessed Chitamba, Gerald Ngumbulu
Internet traffic originating from Africa and destined to Africa has been characterized by high latency. This has been due to the circuitous paths the intra-continent traffic follows. Many internet researchers have recommended that to solve...
VitaWiz
CV Creation Wizard
By: Michael Rutherford, Rethabile Pule, Abongile Pandle, Tony Deng
VitaWiz is intended as a solution to the high unemployment rate in SA. Many workers (particularly those who are unskilled) lack the knowledge, skills or resources to create a high-quality CV, and would rather go without.
VitaWiz offers a full...
VR Scaled Haptic Props
Two new immerisive haptic controllers for Virtual Reality
By: Riyaadh Abrahams, Liam Byren
Humans can perceive the shape and weight of a held object using what is known as dynamic touch. This does not rely on vision but rather on the haptic experience of holding an object. Users can estimate the size and shape of an object by its feel...
VREmote
Investigating Emotion Elicitation in Virtual Reality
By: Jordan Taschner, Brent Van Der Walt
Interaction, the degree to which users of a medium can influence the content of the environment, is one of the key features of Virtual Reality, yet there has been surprisingly little research on its effect in evoking emotions. Virtual Reality...
Zilch Mobile App
SAJE Tech x Team Africa Ventures (INF3003W Team 1)
By: Jamie Doman, Emma Blackburn, Shaakir Mohamed, Abdulrehman Dandekar
Zilch aims to provide a more affordable alternative to the conventional system of requiring high upfront deposits from tenants for the leasing of residential properties, whilst at the same time affording peace of mind to landlords by standing...
IS 3rd Year Systems Development Project IS Hons Systems Development Project
Industry Partners
Amazon Web Services
What unites all Amazonians (across teams and geographies) is that we are all striving to delight our customers and make their lives easier—whoever that customer may be (e.g., consumers, business owners, content creators, sellers, vendors,....
Business Science Corporation Global
BSC Global
About
WE SOLVE, WE AUTOMATE, SO THAT OUR CLIENTS CAN PROSPER
Business Science Corporation is a technology driven company empowering our clients through innovation. We have various offerings e.g. virtual reality,....
Procter & Gamble
About
P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a simple soap and candle company. Today, we’re the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands such as Ariel, Pampers, Gillette,....
SOLIDitech
About SOLIDitech
We're on an ambitious mission to revolutionise business automation software.
We want you to join us for what's next on this mission.
In a nutshell - we engineer and grow SOLID,....
Teknoloji One
tek1
Teknoloji ONE - an ICT solutions company
Customisation, Software, Hardware, Training, Management, Media
About Teknoloji One
Teknoloji One is a solutions company that provides expertise in Information....