Thanks for attending the Machine Learning workshop at the African Bioacoustics Community Conference! I hope that you got some useful information out of day and that you’ll be able to have a better grasp of scientific papers when you read
Convolutional Neural Networks Guest Lecture
On the 20th August 2018 I am giving a guest lecture at the University of Cape Town on convolutional neural networks. The host is Prof. Ian Durbach. The slides which accompany the lecture are available here. The code discussed is
Deep Learning Winter School 2018 @ AIMS South Africa
Introduction From the 2nd to the 13th July 2018 I am teaching deep learning at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences South Africa as part of the winter data science workshop held by Dr. Bubacarr Bah. The goal is to teach
Critical Analysis of Facial Expression and CNNs
In December 2017 I embarked on a journey to critically review the literature on facial expression recognition (FER) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs). After two months of determined reviewing I had read all of the literature I could find. I
Analysis on news title “How a teenager’s killer was brought to justice after 34 years”.
One of the Google news headlines yesterday (16 July 2016 at 13:45 GMT+2) from the United Kingdom edition was “How a teenager’s killer was brought to justice after 34 years”. This headline’s source came from BBC News. The headline expresses mixed
Research
My research interests include: bioacoustics, machine learning for ecology, neuro-evolution, deep learning, artificial intelligence, sentiment analysis, optimization and evolutionary algorithms. My Google Scholar profile is available here.
Photography
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