Current group members

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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.