Associate Professor Fred Nicolls

Image & Signal Processing, Computer Vision

MSc(Eng) PhD Cape Town


Research Interests

  • Image & Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision

Postgraduate Supervision

 

PhD

  • Mitchell Carla Stephanie, Sustainable investment model into space science and technology to maximise socio economic benefit in African nations: A case study of the SKA in Africa
  • Montandon Fraser, Advanced Digital Holographic Imaging for Resource-Limited Settings
  • Scott Michelle Ashleigh, Automated Bone Age Estimation using South African Paediatric Hand and Wrist Radiographs
  • Sharpe Carla Stephanie
  • De Charmoy Benjamin Guy, On robustness of neural networks and how instabilities impact scientific/engineering applications.

Masters

  • Moegamad Rashaad Meyer, Developing a New Machine-Learning Layer for Image Super Resolution: Performance Comparison with Pre-Existing Super Resolution Convolution Neural Networks
  • Goorun Yurisha, Robotic waste sorting system using Deep Learning
  • Kingsley-Rizzo Dino Zoff, Slice to Volume Registration for Medical Images
  • Maharaj Riddhi Anubhav, In-Site resource utilisation to produce oxygen and silicon on the moon using lunar regolith
  • Malapane Thabang Wilson,  Estimating geographic information from images
  • Padayachee Darshan
  • Parkar Zuhayr Ahmed, Contact & Dynamics Estimation of Cheetahs in the Wild
  • Stern Thomas Dartnall, Real-Time Anomaly Detection in ATLAS Experiment using AI-driven FPGA-based Systems
  • Zandamela Frank, Improving Cross-dataset Performance of Distracted Driver Detection Algorithms Using Detected Human Key Points

Current Undergraduate Teaching 

  • Introduction to Electronic Engineering: EEE1006F
  • Digital Signal Processing: EEE4114F