6 papers
WAXAL: A Large-Scale Multilingual African Language Speech Corpus
Abdoulaye Diack, Perry Nelson, Kwaku Agbesi +40
The advancement of speech technology has predominantly favored high-resource languages, creating a significant digital divide for speakers of most Sub-Saharan African languages. To…
Machine Learning for Detection and Severity Estimation of Sweetpotato Weevil Damage in Field and Lab Conditions
Doreen M. Chelangat, Sudi Murindanyi, Bruce Mugizi +6
Sweetpotato weevils (Cylas spp.) are considered among the most destructive pests impacting sweetpotato production, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Traditional methods for asses…
Intelligent Traffic Surveillance for Real-Time Vehicle Detection, License Plate Recognition, and Speed Estimation
Bruce Mugizi, Sudi Murindanyi, Olivia Nakacwa +1
Speeding is a major contributor to road fatalities, particularly in developing countries such as Uganda, where road safety infrastructure is limited. This study proposes a real-tim…
Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Models for African Languages
Alvin Nahabwe, Sulaiman Kagumire, Denis Musinguzi +5
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) for African languages remains constrained by limited labeled data and the lack of systematic guidance on model selection, data scaling, and decod…
Amplify Initiative: Building A Localized Data Platform for Globalized AI
Qazi Mamunur Rashid, Erin van Liemt, Tiffany Shih +19
Current AI models often fail to account for local context and language, given the predominance of English and Western internet content in their training data. This hinders the glob…
PaliGemma-CXR: A Multi-task Multimodal Model for TB Chest X-ray Interpretation
Denis Musinguzi, Andrew Katumba, Sudi Murindanyi
Tuberculosis (TB) is a infectious global health challenge. Chest X-rays are a standard method for TB screening, yet many countries face a critical shortage of radiologists capable…