1. Machine Vision and Digital Image Processing at UCT
Fred Nicolls
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Cape Town

2. University of Cape Town

3. 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

4. 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

5. Industrial inspection systems
Fruit sorters
Vizier systems

6. Industrial inspection systems
EDH Bottle top inspection system

7. Industrial inspection systems
Prototypes and machines

8. Industrial inspection systems
High-speed industrial inspection PC software

9. Medical Imaging
Lodox full body X-ray scanner

10. Medical Imaging
Image segmentation

11. Medical Imaging
Lodox CT
Patents

12. Mineral Processing
Froth flotation

13. Mineral Processing

14. Mineral Processing
Example

15. Mineral Processing
Rock sizing

16. Mineral Processing
Lynxx Rocksizer

17. Vision SFD
Particle volume estimation
Shape characterisation
Identification
Matching
Breakage analysis
Curvature

23. Vision SFD

24. Security and surveillance

25. Electron Microscopy

26. Imaging physics

27. New projects
Surface characterisation and classification for waste rock sorting (with TUDelft)
Texture classification for drill core samples
Photoconsistency for reconstruction