Browsing Magister Scientiae - MSc (Computer Science) by Author "Connan, James"
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Autonomous facial expression recognition using the facial action coding system
de la Cruz, Nathan (University of the Western Cape, 2016)The South African Sign Language research group at the University of the Western Cape is in the process of creating a fully-edged machine translation system to automatically translate between South African Sign Language and ... -
Avatar animation from SignWriting notation
Abrahams, Kenzo (University of the Western Cape, 2015)The SASL project at the University of the Western Cape is in the process of developing a machine translation system that can translate fully-fledged phrases between South African Sign Language (SASL) and English in ... -
A comparison of machine learning techniques for hand shape recognition
Foster, Roland (University of the Western Cape, 2015)There are five fundamental parameters that characterize any sign language gesture. They are hand shape, orientation, motion and location, and facial expressions. The SASL group at the University of the Western Cape has ... -
The efficacy of the Eigenvector approach to South African sign language identification
Segers, Vaughn Mackman (University of the Western Cape, 2010)The communication barriers between deaf and hearing society mean that interaction between these communities is kept to a minimum. The South African Sign Language research group, Integration of Signed and Verbal Communication: ... -
The Efficacy of the Eigenvector Approach to South African Sign Language Identification
Segers, Vaughn Mackman (University of the Western Cape, 2010)The communication barriers between deaf and hearing society mean that interaction between these communities is kept to a minimum. The South African Sign Language research group, Integration of Signed and Verbal Communication: ... -
Hand shape estimation for South African sign language
Li, Pei (University of the Western Cape, 2012)Hand shape recognition is a pivotal part of any system that attempts to implement Sign Language recognition. This thesis presents a novel system which recognises hand shapes from a single camera view in 2D. By mapping the ... -
An integrated sign language recognition system
Nel, Warren (University of Western Cape, 2014)Research has shown that five parameters are required to recognize any sign language gesture: hand shape, location, orientation and motion, as well as facial expressions. The South African Sign Language (SASL) research ... -
KernTune: self-tuning Linux kernel performance using support vector machines
Yi, Long (University of the Western Cape, 2006)Self-tuning has been an elusive goal for operating systems and is becoming a pressing issue for modern operating systems. Well-trained system administrators are able to tune an operating system to achieve better system ... -
KernTune: Self-tuning Linux Kernel Performance Using Support Vector Machines
Yi, Long (University of the Western Cape, 2006)Self-tuning has been an elusive goal for operating systems and is becoming a pressing issue for modern operating systems. Well-trained system administrators are able to tune an operating system to achieve better system ... -
Rendering an avatar from sign writing notation for sign language animation
Moemedi, Kgatlhego Aretha (University of the Western Cape, 2010)This thesis presents an approach for automatically generating signing animations from a sign language notation. An avatar endowed with expressive gestures, as subtle as changes in facial expression, is used to render the ... -
A robust audio-based symbol recognition system using machine learning techniques
Wu, Qiming (University of the Western Cape, 2020-02)This research investigates the creation of an audio-shape recognition system that is able to interpret a user’s drawn audio shapes—fundamental shapes, digits and/or letters— on a given surface such as a table-top using a ... -
Robust facial expression recognition in the presence of rotation and partial occlusion
Mushfieldt, Diego (University of Western Cape, 2014)This research proposes an approach to recognizing facial expressions in the presence of rotations and partial occlusions of the face. The research is in the context of automatic machine translation of South African Sign ... -
Robust recognition of facial expressions on noise degraded facial images
Sheikh, Munaf (University of the Western Cape, 2011)We investigate the use of noise degraded facial images in the application of facial expression recognition. In particular, we trained Gabor+SVMclassifiers to recognize facial expressions images with various types of noise. ... -
Robust South African sign language gesture recognition using hand motion and shape
Frieslaar, Ibraheem (2014)Research has shown that five fundamental parameters are required to recognize any sign language gesture: hand shape, hand motion, hand location, hand orientation and facial expressions. The South African Sign Language ... -
Self-tuning Linux Kernel Performance Using Support Vector Machines
Yi, Long (University of the Western Cape, 2006)In this chapter, we provide the motivation and background behind the automatic optimisation of an operating system. We begin with a discussion of some of the difficulties of automatic operating system optimisation and ... -
South African sign language recognition using feature vectors and Hidden Markov Models
Naidoo, Nathan Lyle (University of the Western Cape, 2010)This thesis presents a system for performing whole gesture recognition for South African Sign Language. The system uses feature vectors combined with Hidden Markov models. In order to constuct a feature vector, dynamic ... -
South African Sign Language Recognition Using Feature Vectors and Hidden Markov Models
Naidoo, Nathan Lyle (University of the Western Cape, 2010)This thesis presents a system for performing whole gesture recognition for South African Sign Language. The system uses feature vectors combined with Hidden Markov models. In order to construct a feature vector, dynamic ... -
Static MySQL Error Checking
Zarinkhail, Mohammad Shuaib (University of the Western Cape, 2010)Coders of databases repeatedly face the problem of checking their Structured Query Language (SQL) code. Instructors face the difficulty of checking student projects and lab assignments in database courses. We collect and ... -
Upper body pose recognition and estimation towards the translation of South African sign language
Achmed, Imran (University of the Western Cape, 2011)Recognising and estimating gestures is a fundamental aspect towards translating from a sign language to a spoken language. It is a challenging problem and at the same time, a growing phenomenon in Computer Vision. This ... -
The use of mobile phones as service-delivery devices in sign language machine translation system
Ghaziasgar, Mehrdad (University of the Western Cape, 2010)This thesis investigates the use of mobile phones as service-delivery devices in a sign language machine translation system. Four sign language visualization methods were evaluated on mobile phones. Three of the methods ...