Nigeria might be on a path to peace again after many years of battling terrorism as a UK-based Nigerian, Yunusa Jibrin, disclosed he has leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify bandits and their hideouts in Nigeria.
According to him, if his findings are adopted by the federal government, the military would be helped in directing their efforts towards identifying and eliminating bandits wherever their hideouts are in the country.
While talking to Vanguard Newspaper, Jibrin, a Master’s degree graduate in computer science from the University of Sussex, said he leveraged AI-driven image fusion to generate thousands of visual representations which depict bandits in desert environments.
He said his research achieved astonishing accuracy in preliminary evaluations by using a Vision Transformer (VT) model to discern terrorist elements.
He said: “I undertook an innovative approach, leveraging AI-driven image synthesis to generate thousands of visual representations depicting bandits in desert environments, complete with weapons and vehicles.
“Employing this synthesized dataset, I employed a Vision Transformer model to discern terrorist elements within the images, achieving remarkable accuracy in preliminary evaluations.”
He stated further that he would collaborate with the federal government in the fight against insecurity which has caused setbacks to the development of the country.
He said: “Moving forward, efforts are underway to formalize these findings, with plans to publish and integrate the developed algorithms into the operational frameworks of the Nigerian government.”
