Machine Vision and Digital Image Processing at UCT Fred Nicolls Department of Electrical Engineering University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
People Staff: Prof Gerhard de Jager Dr Fred Nicolls Full-time PhD students: Markus Louw Simphiwe Mkwelo Gordon Forbes Researchers: Keith Forbes Mathew Price Full-time MSc students: John Morkel Kirk Joubert Stephen Haddad Gladys Kigozi Zwelitsha Magugwana
Past and present sponsors De Beers SABC Mnet Anglo American ESKOM MINTEK EDH UEC/Teklogic/Vizier FRD NRF THRIP Peralex Lodox Anglo Platinum Rio Tinto UCT
Industrial inspection systems Fruit sorters Vizier systems
Industrial inspection systems EDH Bottle top inspection system
Industrial inspection systems Prototypes and machines
Industrial inspection systems High-speed industrial inspection PC software
Medical Imaging Lodox full body X-ray scanner
Medical Imaging Image segmentation
Medical Imaging Lodox CT Patents
Mineral Processing Froth flotation
Mineral Processing
Mineral Processing Example
Mineral Processing Rock sizing
Mineral Processing Lynxx Rocksizer
Vision SFD Particle volume estimation Shape characterisation Identification Matching Breakage analysis Curvature
Vision SFD
Security and surveillance
Electron Microscopy
Imaging physics
New projects Surface characterisation and classification for waste rock sorting (with TUDelft) Texture classification for drill core samples Photoconsistency for reconstruction