The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University partnered with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany to develop an electric tractor. The GlobalDrive Project has a …
Computer vision is how computers analyse image and video content to gather meaningful information. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly improved computer vision, allowing computers to rival human vision. …
The prestigious Thamsanqa W. Kambule Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the computational and statistical sciences at an African university was awarded to Dr Arnu Pretorius from Stellenbosch University. …
Voice conversion technology transforms spoken words from one individual into the voice of another person. Essentially, it’s like having a machine mimic a recorded sentence in another person’s voice. This …
The Electronic Systems Laboratory (ESL) at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, is adding a new feather to its cap by stepping into Duckietown. A cutting-edge project …
South Africa’s electric vehicle manufacturers have a golden opportunity right now. They’re in a great position to set up local factories and start producing electric vehicles right here on African …
Can AI models learn to classify strength and conditioning exercises after being given only one example of each exercise? This is the question that Michael Deyzel and Doctor Rensu Theart, …
On 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day, we remembered the male-dominated history of engineering and the barriers this formed for women in the field. However, with committed mentors fostering …
Children can learn new words and corresponding visual objects from only a few word-object example pairs. This raises the question of whether multimodal speech-vision systems can be found that can …
Historically, the strength and stability of an electrical power grid depended on the number of synchronous generators (SGs) connected to that grid. However, as traditional SG-based electrical power sources are …
