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THOMAS NIESLER
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Stellenbosch
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Joshua Jansen van Vuren
Postdoctoral Fellow 2024 -
Automatic processing of cough audio.
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Minette Farell
MEng 2024 - -
Automatic classification of cough audio.
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Megan le Roux
MEng 2024 - -
Rural telemetry system.
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Christiaan Geldenhuys
PhD 2023 -
Detection and localisation of elephant vocalisations.
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Devendra Parihar
Postdoctoral Fellow 2023 -
Automatic processing of cough audio.
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Emi Dreckmeyr
MEng 2023 -
Drone-based agricultural sensor network.
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Tlaba Mochebelele
MEng 2023 -
Smartphone handset microphone characterisation for audio classification.
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Julian Herreilers
MEng 2023 -
Ultra-low-resource keyword spotting.
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Michael Knight
MEng 2023 -
Space and computational optimisation of neural network audio classifiers.
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Erwin Schillack
MEng 2023 -
Language-specific web-crawling.
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Biswajit Karan
Postdoctoral Fellow 2023 -
Automatic speech recognition of multlilingual code-switched speech.
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Christiaan Lamprecht
MEng 2022 -
Automatic segmentation of coughing sounds.
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Quintin Strydom
MEng 2021 -
Satellite communication for endangered animal conservation.
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Umr Barends
MEng 2021 -
Automatic orthography normalisation for under-resourced languages.
Past group members
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Alexander van Zyl
MEng 2021 -
Low-power radar for endangered animal conservation.
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Larissa Tredoux
MEng 2021 -
End-to-end automatic speech recognition of South African code-switched speech.
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Geoff Frost
MEng 2021 -
Automatic classification of coughing sounds.
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Marco Ribeiro
MEng 2020 -
Very-low-resource keyword spotting.
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Morgan O'Kennedy
MEng 2018 -
Communication network for wildlife sensors.
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Simon Robinson
MEng 2020 -
Development of an animal-borne sensor.
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Madhu Pahar
Postdoctoral Fellow 2019 -
Automatic monitoring of coughing in audio.
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Ian Weber
MEng 2019 -
Multilingual web-text harvesting.
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Ewald van der Westhuizen
Postdoctoral Fellow 2019 -
Very low resource keyword spotting for humanitarian monitoring.
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Michael Struwig
PhD 2018 -
Optimised kinetic energy harvesting.
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Rynhardt Kruger
PhD 2015 -
Interactive document visualisation for the blind.
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Trideba Padhi
Postdoctoral Fellow 2020 - 2022
Very low resource keyword spotting for humanitarian monitoring.
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Nicholas Nell
MEng 2020 - 2021
Advanced Vinyard Sensor Network.
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James Herschaw
MEng 2020 - 2021
Development of a water telemetry system.
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Corwynne Leng
MEng 2019 - 2020
Automatic cough monitoring.
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Nick Wilkinson
MEng 2019 -2020
Efficient voice activity detection.
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Astik Biswas
Postdoctoral Fellow 2017 -
Automatic speech recognition of multlilingual code-switched speech.
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Rensu Theart
PhD 2016 - 2019
Virtual reality visualisation and analysis of microscopy data.
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Wiehan Agenbag
PhD 2015 - 2019
Automatic subword unit discovery and pronunciation dictionary induction for ASR.
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Igor Miranda
Postdoctoral Fellow 2018 - 2019
Automatic detection and classification of coughing in audio.
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Lerato Lerato
PhD 2012 - 2018
Automatic clustering of speech sounds.
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SP le Roux
PhD 2016 - 2018
Intelligent sensors for wildlife conservation.
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Jonathan Wotherspoon
MEng 2016 - 2018
Autonomous networked sensor nodes for wildlife conservation.
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Rudolf Lüttich
MEng 2017 - 2018
Machine learning for smart crop monitoring.
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Rudolf Byker
MEng 2016 - 2018
Automatic analysis of elephant rumble sounds.
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Raghav Menon
Postdoctoral Fellow 2015 - 2018
Very low resource keyword spotting for humanitarian monitoring.
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Stef van Asbroeck
Masters 2018
Infra-red monitoring of vine leaf transpiration.
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William Duckitt
PhD 2010-2018
Digital low-level radio-frequency control of the particle accelerator at iThemba Labs.
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Hankyu Kim
MEng 2016-2017
Three-dimensional sonar gesture processing.
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Sam Dodson
MEng 2016-2017
Compact antenna for wildlife monitoring.
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Floris van Zyl
MEng 2016-2017
Electromagnetic modelling of large wildlife.
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Dr. Armin Saeb
Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2017
Low-resource radio browsing for humanitarian monitoring.
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Willem Andries Burger
MEng 2016 - 2017
Water monitoring telemetry network
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Renier Botha
MEng 2015-2016
Automatic analysis of coughing sounds.
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Kolijn Wolfaardt
MEng 2014-2015
Automatic classification of RFI for radio astronomy.
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Jacques Marais
MEng 2014-2015
Automatic classification of animal behaviour.
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Christiaan Rademan
MEng 2014-2015
Visual speech synthesis.
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Mark Brand
MEng 2010-2015
Modelling musical tonality.
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Lehlohonolo (Hlonie) Mohasi
PhD 2010-2014
Sesotho tone modelling for text-to-speech synthesis.
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Hennie de Villiers
PhD 2007-2013
Computer-assisted teaching of South African Sign Language (SASL).
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Van Zyl van Vuuren
MEng 2012-2013
Automatic blind segmentation of speech.
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Daan Henselmans
Affiliate 2013-2014
Automatic identication of South African languages.
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Maximilien Lhotellier
Affiliate 2013 (ECE Paris)
3D animation of facial avatars.
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Nicolas Virot, Gaelle Usseglio and Frederic Kozlowski
Affiliates 2012 (ENSEIRB-MATMECA, Bordeaux)
Sesotho TTS, Multimedia Annotation and Snoring Analysis
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Herman Kamper
MEng 2010-2011
Multi-accent speech recognition for South African English.
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George Goussard
MEng 2006-2010
Unsupervised clustering for acoustic modelling in ASR.
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Linsen Loots
MEng 2008-2009
Phoneme-to-phoneme (P2P) and Grapheme-and-phoneme-to-phoneme (GP2P) pronunciation modelling.
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Pieter Müller
MEng 2008-2009
Automatic oral proficiency assessment of second language speakers of South African English.
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Calvin Nkadimeng
MEng 2007-2009
Language identification using Guassian mixture models.
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Félicien Jeje Muamba Mukanya
MEng 2006-2008
Multi-accent acoustic modelling for ASR.
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John Burchell
MEng 2005-2007
Acoustic analysis of an electric arc furnace.
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Gideon Klompje
MEng 2005-2006
Parametric monophone speech synthesis.
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Carl Kritzinger
MEng 2004-2005
Low bit-rate speech coding.
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Jaco Müller
MEng 2004-2005
USB Telephony Interface Device.