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Object Detection and Classification
She worked with the city of Jakarta Indonesia as part of the Data science for social good fellowship to build a system which uses object detection and classification to find and label objects, semantic segmentation to determine where they are (on road / sidewalk / wrong lane) and optical flow to determine movement in order to build a video-processing pipeline for the city of Jakarta to extract structured information from raw traffic footage.
So, in the end we can know whether things like motorbikes are moving on the sidewalks, forcing pedestrians onto the road or at what times of the day people driving cars tend to move in the wrong lane, causing more traffic on that road so the city can deploy their limited traffic officer at that particular intersection at specific times of day for example or even build a boundary.
This system was to help the city make more medium to long term solutions mainly in order to improve traffic safety.Evolution and effects of spatial apartheid
Her master's work is on using satellite images and machine learning techniques to study the evolution and effects of spatial apartheid in South Africa.
Here she is using machine learning to classify neighborhood from satellite images of South Africa and then look at specific neighborhoods like townships overtime to compare resources like hospitals and schools in relation to the number of people living there and then comparing those ratios to the ones in suburbs over time.