CVPR Daily - Tuesday

Laura Leal-Taixé

Sergi Caelles

Food for thought.

At the moment of closing this last CVPR Daily of this year, we

receive the following thoughts from

Albert Ali Salah

: As we rely more and more on

algorithms, one topic that is gaining importance is algorithmic accountability, yet it is

not so much known in the CVPR community yet. The questions we ask are: Are the

algorithms we use biased in any way, for instance, do they treat white people better

than the colored, or prefer males over females? Jurafsky touched upon some of

these issues in human behavior, but computers also have biases... I think it is a

question worth asking in the magazine...

I will discuss accountability and why we need it in my presentation on the 26th. I will

present the paper that won the ChaLearn competition this year, on deciding (from

short videos) whether someone was invited for a job interview or not, and then

explaining the decision.