Author:Brown, Dane; Bradshaw, KDate:May 2016The traditional texture-based fingerprint recognition system known as FingerCode is improved in this work. Texture-based fingerprint recognition methods are generally more accurate than other methods, but at the disadvantage of increased ...Read more
Author:Ndaba, N; Pillay, AW; Ezugwu, AEDate:Jul 2018This paper proposes an improved Generalized Regression Neural Network (KGRNN) for the diagnosis of type II diabetes. Diabetes, a widespread chronic disease, is a metabolic disorder that develops when the body does not make enough insulin or ...Read more
Author:Adebiyi, DI; Fedotova, T; Pityana, Sisa L; Popoola, APIDate:Jul 2011The improvement in hardness of X12CrNiMo martensitic stainless steel laser alloyed with 99.9% pure titanium carbide, stellite 6 and two cases of premixed ratio of titanium carbide and stellite 6 [TiC (30 wt.%)- stellite 6 (70 wt.%) and TiC ...Read more
Author:Mlambo, CS; Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V; Mathekga, Mmamolatelo EDate:Nov 2014An improved Hough Transform based fingerprint alignment approach is presented, which improves computing time and memory usage with accurate alignment parameter (rotation and translation) results. This is achieved by studying the strengths and ...Read more
Author:Paige-Green, PDate:2007Performance-related specifications for the selection of gravel materials for use in unsealed roads were developed in South Africa in the late 1980's along with associated deterioration models. The implementation of these has shown that, when ...Read more
Author:Turpie, DWF; Van der Walt, LTDate:Jul 1977An improved method for the rapid determination of non-ionic detergent in the cream, effluent and sludge from wool scouring liquors in recovered wool grease was established using dichloromethane as an extraction liquor.Read more
Author:De Villiers, DanielDate:May 2010This paper describes a unique way of setting up a mortar with minimum of extra equipment. A mortar can be set-up, by using the current mechanical mortar sight and a prismatic mirror with a bearing sensor. This concept focuses directly on one ...Read more
Author:De Villiers, DanielDate:Oct 2008Mortars will still play an important roll in modern warfare. This paper describes a unique way of setting up a mortar with minimum of extra equipment. A mortar can be set-up, by using the current mechanical mortar sight and a prismatic mirror ...Read more
Author:De Villiers, JP; Cronje, J; Nicolls, FCDate:Apr 2011Inverse lens distortion modelling allows one to find the pixel in a distorted image which corresponds to a known point in object space, such as may be produced by a RADAR. This paper extends recent work using neural networks as a compromise ...Read more
Author:Maina, JW; De Beer, MorrisDate:Nov 2008This paper presents evaluation of road pavement response under the loading of typical dual and single truck tyre configurations. Locally developed Stress-In-Motion (SIM) technology was used to quantify three-dimensional (3D) shapes of the ...Read more
Author:Chamier, J; Crouch, AMDate:Jan 2012The spectrophotometric change of amercury (II) (Hg2+) selective small molecule chemosensor has been successfully converted into a photovoltaic response upon ligating Hg2+. The photon excitation was followed by charge separation facilitated ...Read more
Author:De Villiers, J; Cronje, JDate:Apr 2013This work extends earlier work on the real-time photogrammetric stitching of staring arrays of high resolution videos on commercial off the shelf hardware. The blending is both further optimised for Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) implementation ...Read more
Author:Ogbodo, EU; Dorrell, DG; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Mar 2019The conventional smart grid (SG) uses static radio resource allocation (RRA) techniques to allocate resources to sensor nodes and communication devices in the SG network. Cognitive radio sensor Networks (CRSNs) based SGs uses dynamic RRA for ...Read more
Author:Mthethwa, Sthembile; Barbour, GrahamDate:Dec 2016The rapid growth of biometric technologies and wide accessibility of capturing devices has resulted in biometric systems becoming increasingly common in different applications. This has led to the introduction of ATMs in countries like Japan ...Read more
Author:Mapako, MCDate:Apr 2011Biomass fuels dominate the national energy balances of most sub-Saharan African countries, with wood contributing 80-90% of poorer countries like Ethiopia, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique. The predominant method of ...Read more
Author:Greben, HA; Maree, JP; Eloff, E; Murray, KDate:Jul 2005The product of the biological sulphate reduction is sulphide. High concentrations of molecular H2S(g) can be inhibitory for microbial activity, especially at a reactor pH of 6 to 7. This paper focuses on the effect of high sulphide concentrations ...Read more
Author:Olwal, TO; Van Wyk, MA; Van Wyk, BJ; Odhiambo, M; Chatelain, DDate:Jun 2007This paper presents a decentralised cross layer dynamic power control (DDPC) scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). A general cross-layer occupation measure (COM) based on transmission scheduling probability (TSP) and power control policy ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, J; Davel, MH; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2012We improve on a piece-wise linear model of the trajectories of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients, which are commonly used as features in Automatic Speech Recognition. For this purpose, we have created a very clean single-speaker corpus, ...Read more
Author:Wasonga, F; Olwal, TO; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2019Cognitive radio employs an opportunistic spectrum access approach to ensure efficient utilization of the available spectrum by secondary users (SUs). To allow SUs to access the spectrum opportunistically, the spectrum sensing process must be ...Read more