ML-Collective
Researcher
As the Lead Investigator of AfriCrack: Benchmarking Domain-Shift Robustness of Crack Segmentation Models in African Infrastructure study. I managed the full research workflow, including literature review, project scoping, dataset creation, and scientific writing. I led a team that collected and annotated 1,000 crack images across Nigeria using Roboflow, and trained CNNs alongside the SegFormer Vision Transformer using PyTorch. The evaluation revealed a ~50% performance drop for models trained on non-African datasets such as SDNET2018, underscoring the importance of context-specific data. The project received an honorary mention at Deep Learning Indaba 2024 and placed 1st runner-up at IndabaX Nigeria 2024.
