Browsing Magister Scientiae - MSc (Computer Science) by Issue Date
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Static MySQL Error Checking
(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 ... -
The Efficacy of the Eigenvector Approach to South African Sign Language Identification
(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: ... -
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. ... -
Packet aggregation for voice over internet protocol on wireless mesh networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This thesis validates that packet aggregation is a viable technique to increase call capacity for Voice over Internet Protocol over wireless mesh networks. Wireless mesh networks are attractive ways to provide voice services ... -
Mobility management for Wi-Fi infrastructure and mesh networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This thesis shows that mobility management protocols for infrastructure Internet may be used in a wireless mesh network environment. In this research Mobile IPv6 and Fast Handover for Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 are successfully ... -
Situation-aware routing for wireless mesh networks with mobile nodes
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This thesis demonstrates that a situation-aware algorithm improves quality of service on small mesh networks running BATMAN-adv with some mobile nodes. BATMAN-adv is a proactive mesh routing protocol that counts beacons ... -
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 ... -
Hand shape estimation for South African sign language
(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 ... -
Packet aggregation for voice over internet protocol on wireless mesh networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This thesis validates that packet aggregation is a viable technique to increase call ca-pacity for Voice over Internet Protocol over wireless mesh networks. Wireless mesh networks are attractive ways to provide voice ... -
Development of a health management information system using agile software-engineering methods
(2013)The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the development of a web application from scratch. It serves to build a health management information system from basic principles and covers all the software engineering activities ... -
Faster upper body pose recognition and estimation using compute unified device architecture
(University of Western Cape, 2013)The SASL project is in the process of developing a machine translation system that can translate fully-fledged phrases between SASL and English in real-time. To-date, several systems have been developed by the project ... -
Understanding the factors that influence trust in e-services: a case study of a wireless mesh network implementation in Mankosi, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This thesis deals with the design of a business model for rural telephony based on a wireless mesh network for a rural community, the Mankosi community, located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Its aim is to ... -
Usability and content verification of a mobile tool to help a deaf person with pharmaceutical instruction
(University of Western Cape, 2014)This thesis describes a multi-disciplinary collaboration towards iterative development of a mobile communication tool to support a Deaf person in understanding usage directions for medication dispensed at a pharmacy. We ...