Associate Professor Fred Nicolls
On Research and Study Leave from 1 January to 30 June 2025
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
- N/A