Engineering entrepreneur Charlette N’Guessan has received this year’s Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize for engineering innovation.
The Ivorian 26-yr-old, who is dependent in Ghana, is the 1st female to get the prestigious prize.
Her team’s creation, Bace API, uses facial recognition and artificial intelligence to confirm identities remotely, the academy mentioned.
It takes dwell visuals or shorter films recorded on cellphone cameras to detect whether or not the picture is of a authentic man or woman, or a photo of an existing impression.
It is aimed at institutions that rely on identification verification. Two economic institutions are currently working with the software to confirm customers’ identities, the academy explained.
Ms N’Guessan received £25,000 ($33,000) for the top rated prize.
The winner was voted for by a dwell audience during a virtual awards ceremony held on Thursday exactly where 4 finalists delivered shows.
Three runners-up received £10,000 ($13,000).
They are Aisha Raheem from Nigeria – whose digital platform offers farmers with information to enhance their performance, Dr William Wasswa from Uganda – whose low-price tag digital microscope speeds up cervical most cancers screening and David Tusubira from Uganda – who devised a technique that manages off-grid electrical power grids by checking the problem of photo voltaic arrays.
“Fifteen shortlisted Africa Prize business owners, from 6 nations around the world in sub-Saharan Africa, acquired eight months of education and mentoring, in the course of which they designed their business enterprise ideas and figured out to market place their improvements,” the academy reported in a assertion.
