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...

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Creating a Virtual Cinematographer for the Automation of Lecture Recording

By: 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 reduction of...

CS Masters by Dissertation High Performance Computing

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 the...

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