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