Ecology and environment

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Mapping the World: Creating a Global and Temporal High-Resolution Building Density Map

August 9, 2024 | Gilles Quentin Hacheme

This seminar was hosted by Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi together with the Microsoft AI for Good team in July 2024. Knowing where people live is critical for urban planning, disaster management, and more broadly, for…

Mapping the World: Creating a Global and Temporal High-Resolution Building Density Map | Dr. Gilles Quentin Hacheme

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Publication

Geographic Location Encoding with Spherical Harmonics and Sinusoidal Representation Networks

Marc Russwurm, Konstantin Klemmer, Esther Rolf, Robin Zbinden, Devis Tuia

2024 International Conference on Learning Representations | May 2024

Publication

Comparative life cycle assessment of copper and gold recovery from waste printed circuit boards: pyrometallurgy, chemical leaching and bioleaching

Eric Schwartz, Haoyang He, Bichlien Nguyen, Kali Frost, Oladele A. Ogunseitan, Julie M. Schoenung

Journal of Hazardous Materials | May 2024

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Publication

Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation

Andres Hernandez Celis, Zhongqi Miao, Luisa Vargas Daza, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

May 2024

Publication

Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?

Amy Luers, Jonathan Koomey, Eric Masanet, Owen Gaffney, Felix Creutzig, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Eric Horvitz

Nature | April 2024

Tool

Identifying Whales in High-resolution Satellite Imagery

This repository contains code for an active learning (opens in new tab) pipeline for detecting whales in high-resolution satellite imagery.

GitHub

Tool

Giraffe keypoint detection

This repository contains code for running a giraffe keypoint detection model. The model estimates 4 keypoint locations in images containing a single giraffe, namely: top of ossicone, top of head, neck indent, and front bottom…

GitHub

Publication

Land use and Europe’s renewable energy transition: identifying low-conflict areas for wind and solar development

Joseph M. Kiesecker, Jeffrey S. Evans, James R. Oakleaf, Kasandra Zorica Dropuljić, Igor Vejnović, Chris Rosslowe, Elisabeth Cremona, Aishwarya L. Bhattacharjee, Shivaprakash K. Nagaraju, Anthony Ortiz, Caleb Robinson, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Mate Zec, Kei Sochi

Frontiers in Environmental Science | April 2024

Project

Advance Sustainability – AI for Good

Climate change requires swift, collective action and technological innovation. We are committed to meeting our own goals while enabling others to do the same.

Publication

A Change Detection Reality Check

Isaac Corley, Caleb Robinson, Anthony Ortiz

February 2024

Project Project

Project FarmVibes | Research for Industry

Bioacoustics: Leveraging AI to process audio recordings of diverse species

Geospatial Machine Learning

Advance sustainability initiative | AI For Good Lab

Mapping the World: Creating a Global and Temporal High-Resolution Building Density Map

Geographic Location Encoding with Spherical Harmonics and Sinusoidal Representation Networks

Comparative life cycle assessment of copper and gold recovery from waste printed circuit boards: pyrometallurgy, chemical leaching and bioleaching

Pytorch-Wildlife: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation

Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?

Identifying Whales in High-resolution Satellite Imagery

Giraffe keypoint detection

Land use and Europe’s renewable energy transition: identifying low-conflict areas for wind and solar development

Advance Sustainability – AI for Good

A Change Detection Reality Check

Ecology and environment

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