Benjamin Akera

According to our database, Benjamin Akera authored at least 12 papers between 2019 and 2025.

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2025

BATIS: Bayesian Approaches for Targeted Improvement of Species Distribution Models.

Catherine Villeneuve, Benjamin Akera, Mélisande Teng, David Rolnick

CoRR, October, 2025

How much speech data is necessary for ASR in African languages? An evaluation of data scaling in Kinyarwanda and Kikuyu.

Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula, Patrick Walukagga, Gilbert Yiga, John A. Quinn, Ernest Mwebaze

CoRR, October, 2025

Sunflower: A New Approach To Expanding Coverage of African Languages in Large Language Models.

Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, Gilbert Yiga, Patrick Walukagga, Phionah Natukunda, Trevor Saaka, Solomon Nsumba, Lilian Teddy Nabukeera, Joel Muhanguzi, Imran Sekalala, Nimpamya Janat Namara, Engineer Bainomugisha, Ernest Mwebaze, John A. Quinn

CoRR, October, 2025

2023

SatBird: Bird Species Distribution Modeling with Remote Sensing and Citizen Science Data.

Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Yoshua Bengio, Hager Radi Abdelwahed, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick

CoRR, 2023

Bird Distribution Modelling using Remote Sensing and Citizen Science data.

Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick

CoRR, 2023

SatBird: a Dataset for Bird Species Distribution Modeling using Remote Sensing and Citizen Science Data.

Mélisande Teng, Amna Elmustafa, Benjamin Akera, Yoshua Bengio, Hager Radi Abdelwahed, Hugo Larochelle, David Rolnick

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Multilingual Model and Data Resources for Text-To-Speech in Ugandan Languages.

Isaac Owomugisha, Benjamin Akera, Ernest Mwebaze, John A. Quinn

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, 2023

2021

hBERT + BiasCorp - Fighting Racism on the Web.

Olawale Onabola, Zhuang Ma, Yang Xie, Benjamin Akera, Abdulrahman Ibraheem, Jia Xue, Dianbo Liu, Yoshua Bengio

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, 2021

2020

Machine Learning for Glacier Monitoring in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.

Shimaa Baraka, Benjamin Akera, Bibek Aryal, Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa, Finu Shresta, Anthony Ortiz, Kris Sankaran, Juan Lavista Ferres, Mir Matin, Yoshua Bengio

CoRR, 2020

Scoring Root Necrosis in Cassava Using Semantic Segmentation.

Jeremy Francis Tusubira, Benjamin Akera, Solomon Nsumba, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Ernest Mwebaze

CoRR, 2020

Improving In-field Cassava Whitefly Pest Surveillance with Machine Learning.

Jeremy Francis Tusubira, Solomon Nsumba, Flavia Ninsiima, Benjamin Akera, Guy Acellam, Joyce Nakatumba, Ernest Mwebaze, John A. Quinn, Tonny J. Oyana

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2020

2019

Keyword Spotter Model for Crop Pest and Disease Monitoring from Community Radio Data.

Benjamin Akera, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Jonathan Mukiibi, Ali Hussein, Nathan Baleeta, Daniel Ssendiwala, Samiiha Nalwooga

CoRR, 2019