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.

  • @[email protected]English
    57•1 year ago

    LiDAR, radar and infra-red may still perform worse on children due to children being smaller and therefore there would be fewer contact points from the LiDAR reflection.

    I work in a self driving R&D lab.

    • Square SingerEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      How about skin color? Does darker skin reflect LiDAR/infrared the same way as light skin?

      • @[email protected]English
        6•1 year ago

        Infrared cameras don’t depend on you reflecting infrared. You’re emitting it.

        All matter emits light; the frequencies that it’s brightest in depend on the matter’s temperature. Objects around human body temperature mostly glow in the long-wave infrared. It doesn’t matter what your skin color is; “color” is a different chunk of spectrum.

        • Square SingerEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          Sorry, I misunderstood. I know about all that, I just thought it meant active infrared lighted cameras. So basically, an IR light on the car, illuminating the road ahead, and then just using a near-IR camera like a regular optical camera.

          I didn’t think it meant a far-IR camera passively filming black body radiation, because I thought the resolution (both spacially and temporally) of these cameras is usually really low. Didn’t think they were fast and high-res enough to be used on cars.