Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color
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Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color
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#2The researchers supposedly used similar but not quite the same approach as Tesla, and claimed it worked worse for people of color. That makes sense since optical recognition is harder for dark skinned people.
However, the article leads with a picture of a Cruise car, which use lidar technology. Those should afaik recognize people with the same accuracy regardless of skin color.
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#3>This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say.
Or they are simply less visible.
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#4>This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say. Or they are simply less visible.
What's "less visible" to the human eye shouldn't be used to lower our expectations of what can be visible to a machine.
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#5>This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say. Or they are simply less visible.
> This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say.
The second line in the article
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#6they're testing 8 different detection algorithms
> The detection systems were 19.67% more likely to detect adults than children, and 7.52% more likely to detect people with lighter skin tones than people with darker skin tones, according to the study.
while they all had a harder time with adults vs children, that 7.52% is gotten by averaging 2 algorithms that performed abysmally, with 6 that had no statistically significant differences
Re: Self-driving cars less likely to detect children and people of color
#7The researchers supposedly used similar but not quite the same approach as Tesla, and claimed it worked worse for people of color. That makes sense since optical recognition is harder for dark skinned people. However, the article leads with a picture of a Cruise car, which use lidar technology. Those should afaik recognize people with the same accuracy regardless of skin color.
Also, children are small
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#8How do they work in winter then? You can't see much skin if someone is wearing a winter coat.
Right - self driving cars are a solution for Silicon Valley only only so they don't even bother testing those cars elsewhere.
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#9Anyone know how likely it is that this is the result of imbalanced training data? You have fewer dark-skinned people and children in the training data, you end up with a model less-skilled at detecting those people.
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#10>This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say. Or they are simply less visible.
What's "less visible" to the human eye shouldn't be used to lower our expectations of what can be visible to a machine.
Well if it's using optical recognition then lower contrast or smaller object will always make the job more difficult then a bigger object with more contrast; then the reason why the model is better at recognizing white adult people. Even if the car is never going to strike a child or a black person the model recognition would still be better with them.