Author:McDonald, Andre MDate:Oct 2015South Africa is growing increasingly reliant on information and communications technology (ICT) to provide access to information and services. In making progress towards bridging the digital divide, our country now faces a host of increasingly ...Read more
Author:Hunter, LDate:Jul 1973The effect of wetting wool worsted yarns prior to testing on the twist values obtained by the double untwist-twist and untwist-retwist on tested on an automatic twist tester has been investigated.Read more
Author:Barnard, E; Davel, MDate:Nov 2006The phonetic segmentation of recorded speech is a crucial factor in the quality of concatenative systems for speech synthesis. The authors describe a likelihood-based error detection process that can be used to flag possible errors in such a ...Read more
Author:Le Roux, E; Ndiaye, M; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jun 2021The article proposes a gate automation system based on automatic number plate recognition (ANPR). The system uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to identify and classify each number plate which is then compared to a database of authorized ...Read more
Author:Jansen van Rensburg, Gerhardus J; Kok, SDate:Jan 2011The accuracy with which a recent elastic surface registration algorithm deforms the complex geometry of a skull is examined. This algorithm is then coupled to a line based algorithm as is frequently used in patient specific feature registration. ...Read more
Author:Mokgonyane, TB; Sefara, Tshephisho J; Modipa, Thipe I; Mogale, MM; Manamela, MJ; Manamela, PJDate:Jan 2019Speaker recognition is a technique used to automatically recognize a speaker from a recording of their voice or speech utterance. Speaker recognition technology has improved over recent years and has become inexpensive and and reliable method ...Read more
Author:Mokgonyane, TB; Sefara, Tshephisho J; Modipa, TI; Manamela, MJDate:Sep 2019Speaker recognition is a technique that automatically identifies a speaker from a recording of their voice. Speaker recognition technologies are taking a new trend due to the progress in artificial intelligence and machine learning and have ...Read more
Author:Louw, Johannes A; Moodley, AvashlinDate:Dec 2017In this paper an automatic method to implicitly model intonation for statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) is presented. The approach is ideally suited to single speaker speech databases as used in text-to-speech (TTS), due to the ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, JAC; Van Niekerk, DR; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2006Improving the pronunciations of non-native language learners is an important task in a multilingual society. We focus on segmental aspects of pronunciation, and investigate the design of automated assistants that can be used to improve (1) ...Read more
Author:Dawood, Zubeida C; Keet, CMDate:Sep 2017Modularity has been proposed as a solution to deal with large ontologies. This requires, various module management tasks, such as swapping an outdated module for a new one or a computationally costly one for a leaner fragment. No mechanism ...Read more
Author:Burke, Ivan D; Van Heerden, Renier PDate:Mar 2016Cyber awareness training has become a growing industry, with more and more organisations starting to focus on training personnel on how to behave in a secure manner when engaging in cyber operations. Cyber challenges place participants in ...Read more
Author:Marais, ELDate:2006At the end of 2005 it was decided that a number of measurements performed in the dc Low Frequency (dclf) Laboratory of the CSIR National Metrology Laboratory (CSIR NML) could benefit from automation. The measurements identified were typically ...Read more
Author:Teleka, Ruth; Green, JJ; Brink, SDate:Jul 2011In South African hard-rock mines, best practice dictates that the hanging-walls be inspected after blasting. This process is known as ‘making safe’ and although intended to save lives, it is laborious and subjective. Pressure is placed on the ...Read more
Author:Heyes, AMDate:Jun 1998The failure of vehicle components is an area which is likely to affect all of us at one stage or another. In this paper the distribution of component failures is discussed, as well as the causes thereof. Four case studies are presented to ...Read more
Author:Berman, R; Benade, R; Rosman, Benjamin SDate:Nov 2015In most countries throughout the world, heavy vehicle use on public roads are governed by prescriptive rules, typically by imposing stringent mass and dimension limits in an attempt to control vehicle safety. A recent alternative framework ...Read more
Author:Olwal, TO; Van Wyk, BJ; Djouani, K; Hamam, Y; Siarry, P; Ntlatlapa, Ntsibane SDate:Sep 2008Multi-Radio Multi-Channel (MRMC) systems are key to power control problems in WMNs. Previous studies have emphasized throughput maximization in such systems as the main design challenge and transmission power control treated as a secondary ...Read more
Author:Olwal, TO; Van Wyk, BJ; Djouani, K; Hamam, Y; Siarry, P; Ntlatlapa, Ntsibane SDate:Sep 2009Multi-Radio Multi-Channel (MRMC) systems are key to power control problems in WMNs. Previous studies have emphasized through- put maximization in such systems as the main design challenge and transmission power control treated as a secondary ...Read more
Author:Holtzhausen S; Matsebe O; Tlale NSDate:Nov 2008Autonomous under water vehicles are ideal platforms for search and rescue operations. They can also be used for inspection of underwater terrains. These vehicles need to be autonomous and robust to cope with unpredictable current and high ...Read more
Author:Holtzhausen, S; Matsebe, O; Tlale, NS; Bright, GDate:Nov 2008AUVs are ideal platforms for search and rescue operations. They can also be used for inspection of underwater terrains. These vehicles need to be autonomous and robust to cope with unpredictable current and high pressures. In this paper it ...Read more
Author:Holtzhausen, S; Matsebe, O; Tlale, NSDate:2008AUVs are ideal platforms for search and rescue operations. They can also be used for inspection of underwater terrains. These vehicles need to be autonomous and robust to cope with unpredictable current and high pressures. In this paper it ...Read more