Author:Beyers, RDate:Dec 2006Growing the economy in the short term generates the need for sustained skills development in key areas. Without any long term strategic interventions starting at school level South Africa will be forced to continue importing professionals ...Read more
Author:De Ronde, Wiilis; Bosscha, Peter A; Marais, Stephen T; Pretorius, ADate:Nov 2023Due to the high prevalence and unpredictability of violent protest action in South Africa, a need has arisen for rapidly deployable surveillance. This paper proposes an Automated Robotic Guardian for Urban Surveillance (ARGUS) platform, a ...Read more
Author:McDonald, Andre M; Cilliers, Jacques EDate:Oct 2012A coherent autoregressive–to–anything (ARTA) stationary stochastic process for modelling maritime clutter and targets is presented in this paper. The ARTA stochastic process model is an improvement over previous models in the sense that it ...Read more
Author:Smit, Jacoba E; Grobler, AF; Karsten, AE; Sparrow, RWDate:Jul 2009Currently the primary source of energy for industrial and domestic use is based on fossil fuels. The supplies of these fuels are limited and are becoming depleted. Thus there is a search for alternative and more sustainable energy sources. ...Read more
Author:Ferguson, KDate:Oct 2012In this presentation the author introduces an appropriate technology for low-infrastructure regions to broadcast minimum-delay, and live video streams over the wireless Internet with better perceived picture quality than is currently possible ...Read more
Author:Sharma Grover, A; Nieman, A; Van Huyssteen, GB; Roux, JCDate:May 2012The management of language resources requires several legal aspects to be taken into consideration. In this paper we discuss a number of these aspects which lead towards the formation of a legal framework for a language resources management ...Read more
Author:Rossouw, Marius; Theron, AndreDate:Feb 2009This paper includes a brief revue of some of the likely physical port and maritime operations related impacts due to expected climate change around the southern African coast. To mitigate these detrimental impacts, research is and should ...Read more
Author:Verhaeghe, Benoit MJA; Myburgh, PA; Denneman, EDate:Sep 2007The paper seeks to redress the concerns expressed at the eight Conference on Asphalt pavements for Southern Africa (CAPSA) that the design of hot-mix asphalt did not adequately address prevention of rutting. It presents a consolidation of ...Read more
Author:Barnard, E; Davel, M; Van Heerden, CDate:Sep 2009The authors investigate the number of speakers and the amount of data that is required for the development of useable speaker-independent speech-recognition systems in resource-scarce languages. Their experiments employ the Lwazi corpus, which ...Read more
Author:Modipa, T; De Wet, Febe; Davel, MDate:Nov 2009Call routing is an important application of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology. In this paper the authors discuss the main issues affecting the performance of a call routing system and describe the ASR component of the "AutoSecretary" ...Read more
Author:Muwonge, KB; Chan, HADate:Oct 2007This paper proposes a Forward Equivalence Classification (FEC) assembly scheme to efficiently assemble selfsimilar traffic and a Pareto-offset assignment scheme for offset assignment. Two buffers, a packet buffer and a burst buffer, are ...Read more
Author:Mokuwe, Mamuku W; Goorun, Yurisha; Crafford, Gerhardus JDate:Oct 2022This work presents a vision-based quality assurance system that does assembly line monitoring. The system is developed using machine learning hand tracking and object detection methods to monitor the worker’s hand movement while evaluating ...Read more
Author:Ashworth, SGE; Peake, AVDate:Mar 1994This report summarises both the statistical analysis of accident data and detailed accident case studies in attempt to make a complete conclusions of what causes the accidents in gold and platinum mines. And also discusses the recommendations ...Read more
Author:Oberholzer, MM; Oberholster, PJ; Ndlela, Luyanda L; Botha-Oberholtster, AM; Truter, CJDate:Jun 2022Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a global problem with severe consequences for the environment. South Africa’s abandoned mines are a legacy from the country’s economic dependence on the mining sector, with consequent negative impacts on ecosystems. ...Read more
Author:Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Pretorius, LDate:Jun 2013Command and Control (C2) is a complex sociotechnical system. Humans, being part of the C2 system, make sense of the situation to support decision making. Communication technology distributes information and orders within a social (organisational) ...Read more
Author:Lück-Vogel, Melanie; Mbolambi, Cikizwa; Van Niekerk, Lara; Rautenbach, K; Adams, JDate:Oct 2014Within the presented project, we are comparing ecosystem and land cover classifications for the Greater St Lucia region derived from multispectral RapidEye (5m resolution), WorldView-2 (2m resolution), SPOT-6 (5.55m resolution) data with and ...Read more
Author:Pillay, DL; Sebake, MDDate:Nov 2008The significant land-use change in South African metropolitan areas, due to urbanization, created challenges of spatial development planning, infrastructure and service provision. This paper outlines the change detection analysis method applied ...Read more
Author:Lück-Vogel, MelanieDate:Oct 2019In South Africa, about 40% of the people are living within 60km of the Oceans' coasts, and approximately 60% of the South African economy depends on coastal natural resources and trade infrastructure such as ports. These figures highlight the ...Read more