Identifying thatch-roofed houses for disaster planning in rural Malawi using aerial images
# Arm-UNICEF-Disaster-Vulnerability
Identifying thatch-roofed houses for disaster planning in rural Malawi using aerial images
## Description
* Over 80% of Malawi's population resides in rural areas.
* Natural disasters and global challenges like Covid-19 affect these communities.
* Current damage assessment methods overlook crucial data, such as identifying houses with grass-thatched roofs.
* This competition leverages machine learning on aerial imagery to accurately count these structures.
# Set Up
## Create a virtual environment
```
python -m venv venv
source /venv/bin/activate
```
## Install requirements
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
## Resize Images
```
python resize_images.py
```
## Prepare data for training in Yolo format
```
python prepare_data.py
```
## Augment data
```
python data_aug.py
```
## Train models
```
python trainYolo.py
```
# Dataset
## Download the dataset
You can download the dataset from here
### Example image