Autonomous cars may have a person detection bias problem with complexions

Makers of self-driving cars have for years been fending off criticism about safety. Now, they may have to defend themselves against charges of AI bias.

A team of researchers from King’s College London and Peking University examined eight deep-learning pedestrian detectors used for research on driverless cars using four widely studied testing datasets. Their results show significant fairness issues related to skin tone and age.

Accuracy of detection for adults was 19.67 percent higher compared to children. The study also …

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