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.
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.
Isn’t that true for humans as well? I know I find it harder to see children due to the small size and dark skinned people at night due to, you know, low contrast (especially if they are wearing dark clothes).
Human vision be racist and ageist
Ps: but yes, please do improve the algorithms
Part of the children problem is distinguishing between ‘small’ and ‘far away’. Humans seem reasonably good at it, but from what I’ve seen AIs aren’t there yet.
Yeah This probably accounts for 90% of the issue.
Cameras are far worse than human eyes at detecting detail in darker skin tones. They’re tuned specifically for lighter skin tones and struggle with darker ones.
see also: https://img.ifunny.co/images/285f7a926f2a449f28671ecf04db8b1cc04df2c95fda68b06fa0738a29f8548a_1.jpg
That’s an exposure issue, not a tuning issue. Too high exposure time, you risk brighter objects being too bright, and fast objects being blurry. Too short exposure time, dark objects lose detail.
Think of it like a flashlight to your face. If it’s too bright, you can’t see anything.