Nigeria may be approaching a period of peace after years of battling terrorism, as UK-based Nigerian Yunusa Jibrin has developed a method using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify bandits and their hiding spots in the country.

Jibrin, who holds a Master's degree in computer science from the University of Sussex, believes that if his findings are implemented by the federal government, the military can more effectively target and eliminate bandits throughout Nigeria.

Through his research utilizing AI-driven image synthesis, Jibrin has successfully created thousands of visual representations showing bandits in desert terrain with impressive accuracy using a Vision Transformer (VT) model to spot terrorist elements.

"I undertook an innovative approach, leveraging AI-driven image synthesis to generate thousands of visual representations depicting bandits in desert environments, complete with weapons and vehicles.

“Employing this synthesized dataset, I employed a Vision Transformer model to discern terrorist elements within the images, achieving remarkable accuracy in preliminary evaluations,” he said.