no code implementations • 21 Jul 2023 • Simone Fobi, Manuel Cardona, Elliott Collins, Caleb Robinson, Anthony Ortiz, Tina Sederholm, Rahul Dodhia, Juan Lavista Ferres
This work presents an approach for combining household demographic and living standards survey questions with features derived from satellite imagery to predict the poverty rate of a region.
no code implementations • 10 Jan 2023 • Paula Rodriguez Diaz, Tejumade Afonja, Konstantin Klemmer, Aya Salama, Niveditha Kalavakonda, Oluwafemi Azeez, Simone Fobi
These are the proceedings of the 5th workshop on Machine Learning for the Developing World (ML4D), held as part of the Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) on December 14th, 2021.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2022 • Zeal Shah, Simone Fobi, Gabriel Cadamuro, Jay Taneja
Our regressions show $R^2$ scores of 78% and 80% in estimating the number of electrified buildings and number of residential electrified building in images respectively.
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2021 • Simone Fobi, Joel Mugyenyi, Nathaniel J. Williams, Vijay Modi, Jay Taneja
This is the first study of it's kind in low-income settings that attempts to predict a building's consumption and not that of an aggregate administrative area.
no code implementations • 27 May 2020 • Simone Fobi, Terence Conlon, Jayant Taneja, Vijay Modi
Open source infrastructure annotations like OpenStreetMaps (OSM) are representative of this issue: while OSM labels provide global insights to road and building footprints, noisy and partial annotations limit the performance of segmentation algorithms that learn from them.