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Toward Authentication Mechanisms for Wi-Fi Mesh Networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Wi-Fi authentication mechanisms include central authentication, dynamic and distributed authentication and some encryption methods. Most of the existing authentication methods were designed for single-hop networks, as ...
A Mobile Deaf-to-hearing communication aid for medical diagnosis
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Many South African Deaf people use their mobile phones for communication with SMSs yet they would prefer to converse in South African Sign Language. Deaf people with a capital `D' are different from deaf or hard of hearing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Secure contactless mobile financial services with near field communication
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This thesis presents the results from work with three prototypes that use Near Field Communication technology to provide secure contactless mobile nancial services on mobile phones.
Browser-based and mobile video communication alternatives for Deaf people
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This thesis offers some prototypes to provide browser-based and mobile video communication services for Deaf people and evaluates these prototypes. The aim of this research is to identify an acceptable video communication ...
Robust recognition of facial expressions on noise degraded facial images
(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. ...