UCT Digital Image Processing Theses

PhD theses

• Ian Guest, Digital Video Moving Object Segmentation using Tensor Voting: a Non-causal, Accurate Approach, 2010.
• Markus Louw, A Population Monte Carlo approach to estimating parametric Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions through Markov Random Field parameter estimation, 2009.
• Gordon Forbes, Texture and Bubble Size Measurements for Modelling Concentrate Grade in Flotation Froth Systems, 2007 (and in print resolution).
• Keith Forbes, Calibration, Recognition, and Shape from Silhouettes of Stones, 2007 (and in print resolution).
• Mattieu de Villiers, Limited Angle Tomography, 2004.
• Jerome Francis, Machine Vision for Froth Flotation, 2001.
• Greg Cox, Designing Hypothesis Tests for Digital Image Matching, 2000.
• Fred Nicolls, Constraints and Invariance in Target Detection, 2000.
• Brendt Wohlberg, Fractal Image Compression and the Self-Affinity Assumption: A Stochastic Signal Modelling Perspective, 1996.
• Robert Crida, A Machine Vision Approach to Rock Fragmentation Analysis, 1995.

MSc theses

• Denis Wong, Automation of Region Specific Scanning for Real Time Medical Systems, 2012.
• Martin Wilson, Coded Aperture and Coded Exposure Photography: an investigation into applications and methods, 2011.
• Thulani Ndhlovu, An investigation into stereo algorithms: An emphasis on local-matching, 2011.
• Frank Bolton, Automated 3D reconstruction of Lodox Statscan images for forensic application, 2011.
• Shaun Kaplan, A Wireless Sensor Network for Vibration Measurement, 2011.
• Matthew Beets, Distortion Correction in LODOX StatScan X-Ray Images, 2007.
• Stephen Milborrow, Locating Facial Features with Active Shape Models, 2007.
• Kirk Joubert, 3D Model Reconstruction using Photoconsistency, 2007.
• Gladys Kigozi, Surface reconstruction of a blast plate using stereo vision, 2007.
• Stephen Haddad, Texture Measures for Segmentation, 2007.
• Nicholas Maunder, Virtual View Synthesis using Visual Hulls, 2005.
• Ntana Nkanza, Image Registration and its Application to Computer Vision: Mosaicing and Independent Motion detection, 2005.
• Phillip Milne, Visual Hulls for Volume Estimation: A Fast Marching Cubes Based Approach, 2005.
• Bruno Merven, Person Tracking in 3D Using Kalman Filtering in Single and Multiple Camera Environments, 2004.
• Simphiwe Mkwelo, A machine vision-based approach to measuring the size distribution of rocks on a conveyor belt, 2004.
• Mathew Price, Using Colour Features to Classify Objects and People in a Video Surveillance Network, 2004.
• Markus Louw, Partitioned Particle Filtering for Target Tracking in Video Sequences, 2004.
• Michael Mc Grath, Markov Random Field Image Modelling, 2003.
• Gordon Forbes, The Automatic Detection of Patterns in People's Movements (appendix), 2002.
• Frances Robertson, Segmentation in Image Sequences: Tracking Human Figures in Motion, 2001.
• Arne Henrichsen, 3D Reconstruction and Camera Calibration from 2D Images, 2000.
• Ben Wright, The Development of a Vision-Based Flotation Froth Analysis System, 1999.
• Brian Shand, A Distributed, Object Oriented Architecture for Pattern Analysis, 1999.
• Willie Nel, An Investigation into Feature Selection Techniques for Reducing Input Dimensionality in Pattern Recognition Applications, 1998.
• Yon Rosenthal, A Computerised Face Recal System using Eigenfaces, 1998.
• Jerome Francis, An Examination of Block Motion Compensation Algorithms for MPEG-2 and Prediction of Bit Rates from Video Sequence Measurements, 1997.
• Fred Nicolls, The Development of a Predictive Autofocus Algorithm using a General Image Formation Model, 1995.