Theophilus Aidoo

PhD Candidate · University of Saarland · I2SC

I'm a PhD candidate studying under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ingmar Weber, at the Chair of Societal Computing, University of Saarland. My work focuses on use of computer vision, to study human mobility from satellite imagery.

Computer Vision Remote Sensing Mobility Societal Computing
Theophilus Aidoo

Research

I develop machine learning methods for analysing satellite imagery, with applications in mobility analysis, human displacement, and public health. My recent work explores weakly supervised learning for parking lot occupancy estimation.

Publications

A Weak Supervision Learning Approach Towards an Equitable Mobility Estimation
Representation Learning · Remote Sensing · Mobility

A weak supervision framework for estimating parking lot occupancy from 3 m satellite imagery using weekend-derived supervision.

LLMRS: Unlocking potentials of LLM-based recommender systems for software purchase
Large Language Models · Recommender Systems

Zero-shot recommendation using product reviews with large language models.

Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health behaviours across Africa
Computational Social Science · Africa

Examining how social connectedness influences reproductive health knowledge across 495 African regions.

Blog

Beyond RGB: What Satellite Imagery Really Contains

What else can we do with satelite imagery that we cannot do with images captured from traditional cameras?

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A Simple AI-Powered Workflow for Literature Review

Doing a literature review can be quite painful, I think many students can relate. Over time, I have learned a few things that I would like to share here.

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Design Thinking for Research: Borrowing Human-Centered Principles to Enhance Your Pipeline

How can we apply design thinking principles to improve our research processes and outcomes?

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Double Delight in Geneva: AI for Social Good & Crisis Computing

Attendance of AI for Social Good and Crisis Computing workshop in Geneva.

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Contact

I'm always interested in discussing research collaborations, remote sensing, and AI applications.

Email: taidoo[at]cs.uni-saarland.de