Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists::Researchers call for tighter regulations following major age and race-based discrepancies in AI autonomous systems.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    193·
    11 months ago

    This has been the case with pretty much every single piece of computer-vision software to ever exist…

    Darker individuals blend into dark backgrounds better than lighter skinned individuals. Dark backgrounds are more common that light ones, ie; the absence of sufficient light is more common than 24/7 well-lit environments.

    Obviously computer vision will struggle more with darker individuals.

    • zephyreks@programming.devEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      If the computer vision model can’t detect edges around a human-shaped object, that’s usually a dataset issue or a sensor (data collection) issue… And it sure as hell isn’t a sensor issue because humans do the task just fine.

      • WhiteHawk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        11 months ago

        Do they? People driving at night quite often have a hard time seeing pedestrians wearing dark colors.

      • duffman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        11 months ago

        And it sure as hell isn’t a sensor issue because humans do the task just fine.

        Sounds like you have never reviewed dash camera video or low light photography.