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Main Authors: Pratama, Nardiena A., Fan, Shaoyang, Demartini, Gianluca
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18968
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author Pratama, Nardiena A.
Fan, Shaoyang
Demartini, Gianluca
author_facet Pratama, Nardiena A.
Fan, Shaoyang
Demartini, Gianluca
contents Human-annotated content is often used to train machine learning (ML) models. However, recently, language and multi-modal foundational models have been used to replace and scale-up human annotator's efforts. This study explores the similarity between human-generated and ML-generated annotations of images across diverse socio-economic contexts (RQ1) and their impact on ML model performance and bias (RQ2). We aim to understand differences in perception and identify potential biases in content interpretation. Our dataset comprises images of people from various geographical regions and income levels, covering various daily activities and home environments. ML captions and human labels show highest similarity at a low-level, i.e., types of words that appear and sentence structures, but all annotations are consistent in how they perceive images across regions. ML Captions resulted in best overall region classification performance, while ML Objects and ML Captions performed best overall for income regression. ML annotations worked best for action categories, while human input was more effective for non-action categories. These findings highlight the notion that both human and machine annotations are important, and that human-generated annotations are yet to be replaceable.
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spellingShingle Perception of Visual Content: Differences Between Humans and Foundation Models
Pratama, Nardiena A.
Fan, Shaoyang
Demartini, Gianluca
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Human-annotated content is often used to train machine learning (ML) models. However, recently, language and multi-modal foundational models have been used to replace and scale-up human annotator's efforts. This study explores the similarity between human-generated and ML-generated annotations of images across diverse socio-economic contexts (RQ1) and their impact on ML model performance and bias (RQ2). We aim to understand differences in perception and identify potential biases in content interpretation. Our dataset comprises images of people from various geographical regions and income levels, covering various daily activities and home environments. ML captions and human labels show highest similarity at a low-level, i.e., types of words that appear and sentence structures, but all annotations are consistent in how they perceive images across regions. ML Captions resulted in best overall region classification performance, while ML Objects and ML Captions performed best overall for income regression. ML annotations worked best for action categories, while human input was more effective for non-action categories. These findings highlight the notion that both human and machine annotations are important, and that human-generated annotations are yet to be replaceable.
title Perception of Visual Content: Differences Between Humans and Foundation Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18968