DSAIL PUBLICATIONS

Leveraging AI Models for Regional Weather Prediction: A Data Pipeline for Africa

Teofilo Ligawa, Austin Kaburia, Ciira wa Maina

IST-Africa 2025

Agriculture

Camera Trap Data Analysis for Grevy's Zebra Monitoring

Victor Ruto, Yuri Njathi, Teofilo Ligawa, Ciira wa Maina,

IST-Africa 2025

Environment

Using Deep Learning Techniques to Monitor a Reforested Stand in Kenya

Samuel Gachana, Cedric Kiplimo, Ciira wa Maina, Dennis Gitundu, Arthur Sichangi

IST-Africa 2025

Environment

Deployment and Evaluation of the Autonomous Monitoring of Insects (AMI) System for Ecosystem Health Assessment in Kenya

Paul Bett, Jason Kabi, Lorna Mugambi, Ciira wa Maina

IST-Africa 2025

Environment

Ciira wa Maina, Peter Njoroge

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Environment

Self-Supervised Multi-Task Learning for the Detection and Classification of RHD-Induced Valvular Pathology

Lorna Mugambi, Ciira wa Maina, Liesl Zühlke

Journal of Imaging

Health

Using Drone Imagery and Deep Learning to Monitor a Reforested Stand in Kenya

Cedric Kiplimo, Samuel Gachana, Viola Orina, Ciira wa Maina, Arthur Sichangi

AGU24

Environment

Do Low Cost Weather Stations Complement Large Scale Numerical Weather Prediction Models?

Austin Kaburia Kibaara, Teofilo Ligawa, Ciira wa Maina, Michael Slater, Irené Tematelewo, Thomas Dietterich

AGU24

Environment

AJA-Pose: A Framework for Animal Pose Estimation Based on VHR Network Architecture

Austin Kaburia Kibaara, Joan Kabura, Antony Gitau, Ciira wa Maina

ICMEW

Agriculture

Low-Cost Non-Contact Forest Inventory: A Case Study of Kieni Forest in Kenya

Cedric Kiplimo, Ciira wa Maina, Billy Okal

Challenges - Journal of planetary health

Environment

DSAIL-TreeVision: A software tool for extracting tree biophysical parameters from stereoscopic images

Cedric Kiplimo, Collins Emasi Epege, Ciira wa Maina, Billy Okal

SoftwareX

Environment

A low‐cost Raspberry Pi based time domain reflectometer for fault detection in electric fences

Gabriel Kiarie, Kumbirayi Nyachionjeka, Ciira wa Maina

IET Science, Measurement & Technology, 2024

Environment

Impact of Background on Classification Performance of Camera Trap Images

Yuri Njathi, Ciira wa Maina

International Conference on Emerging Trends in Networks and Computer Communications (ETNCC) 2024

Environment

Unsupervised Discovery of Echocardiographic Views for Rheumatic Heart Disease Diagnosis

Yuri Njathi, Lorna Mugambi, Liesl Zühlke, Ciira wa Maina

IST-Africa 2023

Health

Efficient Camera Trap Image Annotation Using YOLOv5

Yuri Njathi, Lians Wanjiku, Lorna Mugambi, Jason Kabi, Gabriel Kiarie, Ciira wa Maina

IEEE AFRICON 2023

Environment

The use of Open-Source Boards for Data Collection and Machine Learning in Remote Deployments

Gabriel Kiarie, Jason Kabi, Lorna Mugambi, Ciira wa Maina

IEEE AFRICON 2023

Environment

Anomaly Detection on Time Series Sensor Data Using Deep LSTM-Autoencoder

Stephen Githinji, Ciira wa Maina

IEEE AFRICON 2023

Environment

Leveraging Wearable IoT Solutions and AI for Improved Orthopaedic Care in Kenya

Antony M. Gitau, Ciira wa Maina

Deep Learning Indaba 2023

Health

Comparison of Wearable and Computer Vision Based Approaches to Knee Flexion Angle Measurement

Antony M. Gitau, V Kulankash, Gachathi Wanjema, Ciira wa Maina

IST-Africa 2023

Health

Low cost, LoRa based river water level data acquisition system

Jason Kabi, Ciira wa Maina, ET Mharakurwa, SW Mathenge

HardwareX, 2023

Environment

DSAIL-Porini: Annotated camera trap image data of wildlife species from a conservancy in Kenya

Lorna Mugambi, Gabriel Kiarie, Jason Kabi, Ciira wa Maina

Data in Brief, January 2023

Environment

DSAIL power management board: Powering the Raspberry Pi autonomously off the grid

Gabriel Kiarie, Jason Kabi, Ciira wa Maina

HardwareX, October 2022

Environment

Towards AI Based Diagnosis of Rheumatic Heart Disease: Data Annotation and View Classification

Lorna Mugambi, Liesl Zuhlke, Ciira wa Maina

IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) 2022

Health

NeeFlex: A wearable device for measuring knee flexion angles in rehabilitating patients

Antony M. Gitau, Ciira wa Maina

DSAIL Technical Report - 2022-001

Health

Leveraging IoT and Machine Learning for Improved Monitoring of Water Resources - A case Study of the Upper Ewaso Nyiro River

Jason Kabi, Ciira wa Maina

IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) 2021

Environment

Raspberry Pi Based Recording System for Acoustic Monitoring of Bird Species

Gabriel Kiarie, Ciira wa Maina

IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa) 2021

Environment

A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Based System for Livestock Tracking and Localization

Jared Makario, Ciira wa Maina

IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa), 2021

Agriculture

Leveraging IoT and Machine Learning for Improved Monitoring of Water Resources - A case Study of the Upper Ewaso Nyiro River

Jason Kabi, Ciira wa Maina

DSAIL Technical Report - 2021-001

Environment

Raspberry Pi Based Recording System for Acoustic Monitoring of Bird Species

Gabriel Kiarie, Ciira wa Maina

DSAIL Technical Report - 2020-001

Environment