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I am a postgraduate student at the University of Stellenbosch, where I am a member of the Digital Signal Processing Group (and also the Vision and Learning Group). The university is located in the beautiful village of Stellenbosch and, students being students, our campus probably has a lot in common with yours. Our local b0fh named my Linux box "Strongbad" -- it took me a while to figure out that he is the strange little character on the left. Strong Bad likes to read his e-mail, just like some other people in the lab. Here, some believe that a a strong Cup of Joe is the way to go (the addiction comes a long way). With the aroma of freshly ground coffee drifting down the corridor, the DSP-Lab is also fondly known as the espresso lab.

I am busy developing supreme, a super-resolution library.

Connected components code (Python + ctypes) (connected_components.tar.bz2). Posted 29 December 2007.
Shortest path / dynamic programming code (Python + ctypes) (shortest_path.tar.bz2). Posted 3 December 2007.
Slides for A brief introduction to Python and A quick peek at SciPy presented to the postgrads (download). Posted February 2007.
CTPUG: Scientific Tools for Python (download | view my slides online | view Albert's slides online | download Neilen's slides)
Short overview of numpy, scipy and matplotlib; delivered at the first Cape Town Python User Group meeting at AIMS in Muizenberg. Posted September 2006.
Straight line Hough transform
Point-in-polygon code (pure Python, ctypes and weave) (pnpoly.tar.bz2) (updated 26 Sept 2006)
Geometrical illustration of the SVD (geom.py)
Python4Science Workshop, 12-13 April 2006

ROctave for 2.1.73 and 2.9.x branch
Octave Avifile 0.5
A wrapper for FFMpeg's libavformat and libavcodec, allowing Octave to read and write AVI (Audio/Video Interlaced) files.
Since version 0.3, reading and writing are supported. Latest version posted July 2007.
Octave talk (download | view online)
The slides (in HTML format) of the Octave talk I delivered at the African Institude for Mathematical Sciences. Posted July 2005.
Da Coda Al Fine (PDF)
Da Coda Al Fine is documentation on extending Octave in C++. This is the wiki version, converted to PDF format. Posted July 2005.