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 navigation of complex...

CS Masters by Dissertation

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 cost...

CS Masters by Dissertation

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 extracting tree...

CS Masters by Dissertation

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

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 such as...

CS Masters by Dissertation

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 to the...

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 food....

CS Masters by Dissertation