Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Mathematical Sciences) by Title
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Polynomial containment in refinement spaces and wavelets based on local projection operators
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: See full text for abstract -
Properties of graph polynomials and related parameters
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : In this thesis, we investigate various problems related to graph polynomials. We first define two-variable polynomials for rooted trees and specific posets, which are motivated by the Tutte polynomial. ... -
Random walk hitting times in random trees
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The hitting time Hxy, between two vertices x and y of a graph, is the average time that the standard simple random walk takes to get from x to y. We start by giving a recursive formula for higher moments ... -
Rank matrix cascade algorithm, hermite interpolation
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: (Math symbols have changed) Wavelet and subdivision techniques have developed, over the last two decades, into powerful mathematical tools, for example in signal analysis and geometric modelling. Both ... -
Refinable functions with prescribed values at the integers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: See full text -
Refinable vector splines and multi-wavelets with shortest matrix filters
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : A widely used class of basis functions in signal analysis is obtained from the dilation and integer shifts of a given (compactly supported) wavelet ψ : R → R, by means of which a (scalar) signal can ... -
Sensitivity analysis of multilayer neural networks
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The application of artificial neural networks to solve classification and function approximation problems is no longer an art. Using a neural network does not simply imply the presentation of a data set ... -
Solving embedding problems with bounded ramification
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Given a Galois extension K/K0 of number fields, a finite group G, and an epimorphism α: G→ Gal(K/K0) with solvable kernel, our goal is to embed K into a Galois extension N of K0 with Galois group ... -
Spectral theory in commutatively ordered banach algebras
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: See full text. -
Spreading waves of invasive species
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Invasive species are well known to harm economy as well as ecological assets and impair ecosystems functioning around the world. Timely control and management of new incursions of invasive species ... -
Stochastic visual tracking with active appearance models
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In many applications, an accurate, robust and fast tracker is needed, for example in surveillance, gesture recognition, tracking lips for lip-reading and creating an augmented reality by embedding a ... -
Structure-from-motion for enclosed environments
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-12)A structure-from-motion implementation for enclosed environments is presented. The various aspects covered include a discussion on optimised luminance computations—a technique to compute an optimally weighted luminance ... -
A topological framework for modeling belief revision
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Classical formulations model belief revision as a deterministic process. Under certain circumstances, the process may have more than one outcome, which suggests that belief revision is non-deterministi ... -
Torsion bounds for Drinfeld modules with complex multiplication
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University., 2020-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main objective of the present thesis is to prove an analogue for Drinfeld modules of a theorem due to Clark and Pollack. The cardinality of the group of K-rational torsion points of an elliptic curve ... -
Two new combinatorial problems involving dominating sets for lottery schemes
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-12)Suppose a lottery scheme consists of randomly selecting an unordered winning n-subset from a universal set of m numbers, while a player participates in the scheme by purchasing a playing set of any number of unordered ... -
A video-based traffic monitoring system
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)This thesis addresses the problem of bulding a video-based traffic monitoring system. We employ clustering, trackiing and three-dimensional reconstruction of moving objects over a long image sequence. We present an ... -
Weighted centrality, and a further approach to categorical commutativity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We investigate weighted commutators, that is, weighted subobject commutator and weighted normal commutator, as well as commutators in the sense of Huq, Higgins, Ursini and Smith, which are all special ...