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An analysis of voice over internet protocol in wireless mesh networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis presents an analysis of the impact of node mobility on the quality of service for voice over Internet Protocol in wireless mesh networks. Voice traffic was simulated on such a mesh network to analyze the ...
Comparison and evaluation of mass video notification methods used to assist Deaf people
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
In South Africa, Deaf people communicate with one another and the broader community by means of South African Sign Language. The majority of Deaf people who have access to a mobile phone (cell phone) use Short Message ...
Short message service normalization for communication with a health information system
(2011)
Short Message Service (SMS) is one of the most popularly used services for communication between mobile phone users. In recent times it has also been proposed as a means for information access. However, there are several ...
An intelligent vertical handoff decision algorithm in next generation wireless networks
(2010)
Seamless mobility is the missing ingredient needed to address the inefficient
communication problems faced by the field workforces of service companies that are using field workforce automation solutions to streamline and ...
Context-awareness for adaptive information retrieval systems
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This research study investigates optimization of IRS to individual information needs in order of relevance. The research addressed development of algorithms that optimize the ranking of documents retrieved from IRS. In ...
An integrated sign language recognition system
(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 ...
The use of mobile phones as service-delivery devices in sign language machine translation system
(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 ...
Video annotation wiki for South African sign language
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
The SASL project at the University of the Western Cape aims at developing a fully automated translation system between English and South African Sign Language (SASL). Three important aspects of this system require SASL ...
A technique for the evaluation of free and open source e-learning systems
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Evaluating software is a universal and complex problem. The question is: how should software be selected and adopted, or rather, which of the software packages is the most suitable for a specific environment? Extensive ...
Upper body pose recognition and estimation towards the translation of South African sign language
(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 ...