Data Scientists Network
2021 NeurIPS Meetup
We would be hosting local meetups to stream live and watch recorded videos from NeurIPS 2021 Conference.
About NeurIPS
The Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to foster the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. This would be the Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Some of our past papers
AFRIRAZER: A Deep Learning Model to remove Background and Skin from Traditional African Fashion Images
Africa is known for its rich and diverse culture. Africans are flamboyant and fashion is an expression of our shared heritage as a people. Traditional African fashion is rich, colourful and vibrant, and allows for adaptable customization.
Link to paper: Click Here
Link to poster: Click Here
Real-Time Crowdsourcing of Health Data in a Low-Income country: A Case Study of Human Data Supply on Malaria
Malaria is one of the leading causes of high morbidity and mortality in Nigeria despite various policy interventions to frontally address the menace. While a national malaria policy agenda exists on the use of Artemisinin-based …
Link to presentation: Click Here
Federated Grassroots Community Model for Catalyzing Artificial Intelligence for Common Good
Proposing a methodology for developing Artificial Intelligence solutions that adopt a grassroots federated community model involving a rare collaboration between problem solvers, end-users, and other stakeholders in identifying problems …
Link to publication: Click Here
Papers to be showcased
| Topic | Meetup Time (WAT) | Presenters | NeurIPS Date | NeurIPS Time (WAT) | Live Stream (NeurIPS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SautiDB-Naija: A Nigerian L2 English Speech Dataset | 3:10pm – 3:25pm | Tejumade Afonja · Ademola Malomo · Lawrence Francis · goodyduru C Duru · Kenechi Dukor · Oluwafemi Azeez · Zik E Mudele · Olumide Okubadejo | December 10th, 2021 | 12:00pm – 2:00pm | Click Here |
| AFRIFASHION40000: A GAN generated African Fashion Dataset for Computer Vision | 3:25pm- 3:40pm | Wuraola Oyewusi · Olubayo Adekanmbi · Olalekan Akinsande · Sharon Ibejih · Opeyemi Osakuade | December 10th, 2021 | 12:00pm – 2:00pm | Click Here |
| Sign-to-Speech Model for Sign Language Understanding: A Case Study of Nigerian Sign Language | 3:40pm – 3:55pm | Steven Kolawole, Opeyemi Osakuade, Nayan Saxena, Babatunde Kazeem Olorisade | December 14th, 2021 | 4:00pm | Click Here |
| A Comparative Analysis of Semi-Supervised and Self-Supervised Classification for Labeling Tweets about Police Brutality | 3:55pm – 4:10pm | December 10th, 2021 | 3:00pm | Click Here | |
| AFRIGAN: African Fashion Style Generator using Generative Adversarial Networks(GANs) | 4:10pm – 4:25pm | Wuraola Oyewusi · Olubayo Adekanmbi | December 10th, 2021 | 12:00pm – 2:00pm | Click Here |
| Live Q & A Session | 4:25pm – 4:40pm |
Schedule
Date
21st December 2021
Time
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm (WAT)
West African Time
Venue
Zoom
Registration
Attendance is free. Registration is Mandatory
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