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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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...