Ethical Challenges in Computer Vision: Ensuring Privacy and Mitigating Bias in Publicly Available Datasets
It addresses privacy and bias challenges in computer vision for researchers and practitioners, but is incremental as it builds on existing ethical discussions without introducing new technical methods.
This paper tackles the ethical problems of using publicly available datasets in computer vision, analyzing popular datasets like COCO and ImageNet to highlight privacy and bias concerns, and proposes a comprehensive ethical framework to address these issues and promote responsible AI development.
This paper aims to shed light on the ethical problems of creating and deploying computer vision tech, particularly in using publicly available datasets. Due to the rapid growth of machine learning and artificial intelligence, computer vision has become a vital tool in many industries, including medical care, security systems, and trade. However, extensive use of visual data that is often collected without consent due to an informed discussion of its ramifications raises significant concerns about privacy and bias. The paper also examines these issues by analyzing popular datasets such as COCO, LFW, ImageNet, CelebA, PASCAL VOC, etc., that are usually used for training computer vision models. We offer a comprehensive ethical framework that addresses these challenges regarding the protection of individual rights, minimization of bias as well as openness and responsibility. We aim to encourage AI development that will take into account societal values as well as ethical standards to avoid any public harm.