Hou Hin Ip

Enhancing the KidSat Model: Integrating Geographical Encoding and Data Quality Assessment for Childhood Poverty Prediction

Hou Hin Ip, Ka Nam Lam, Joshua Man Yu Ng, Makkunda Sharma, Seth Flaxman, Codie Gerlach-Wood, et al.

Accurate poverty mapping using satellite imagery is often hindered by (i) noisy and sparse survey-derived supervision, (ii) image quality issues such as cloud cover and image corruption, and (iii) lack of explicit spatial structure in image-only models. Building on the KidSat fra…Read more