As part of the AfricaNLP – Unlocking Local Languages workshop, we hosted a number of projects working in Artificial Intelligence in Africa for Development, funded via IDRC grants.
Denis Pastory Rubanga – A Computer vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction tool
T. Idriss Tinto – Building a Medicinal Plant Database for Preserving Ethnopharmacological Knowledge in the Sahel
Abdelhak Mahmoudi – Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator: ‘Learning for Deaf’
Martha Shaka – Effective Creation of Ground Truth Data-set for Malaria Diagnosis Using Deep Learning
Khushal Brahmbhatt – End-to-End Learning for Autonomous Driving on Unpaved Roads – A Study Towards Automated Wildlife Patrol
Tegawende Bissyande – Preservation of Indigenous Languages
Amelia Taylor – A Semi-Automatic Tool for Meta-data extraction from Malawi Court Judgments
Adewale Akinfaderin – Using Artificial Intelligence to Digitize Parliamentary Bills in Sub-Saharan Africa