Research Fellow Raesetje Sefala on her work on using computer vision to detect the persistence of spatial apartheid in South Africa. Although Apartheid legally ended in 1991, the difference between townships, where non-white people were forced to live in, and suburbs is still clear. Those who grow up in townships, like Raesetje, know that the services they receive are much worse than those in the suburbs. Raesetje here shows her dataset, in which she and others raised in townships annotated geo-located satellite images with their neighborhood types, including townships and suburbs. She also demonstrats her computer vision tool, which labels different neighborhood types. These tools will allow those who live in townships to advocate for better resources, including better government service allocation.

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