Perception of Visual Content: Differences Between Humans and Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18968v1
• Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:37:04 GMT
• Title: Perception of Visual Content: Differences Between Humans and Foundation Models
• Authors: Nardiena A. Pratama, Shaoyang Fan, Gianluca Demartini,
• Abstract summary: This study compares human-generated and ML-generated annotations of images representing diverse socio-economic contexts.<n>Our dataset comprises images of people from various geographical regions and income levels washing their hands.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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 compares human-generated and ML-generated annotations of images representing diverse socio-economic contexts. 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 washing their hands. We compare human and ML-generated annotations semantically and evaluate their impact on predictive models. Our results show low similarity between human and machine annotations from a low-level perspective, i.e., types of words that appear and sentence structures, but are alike in how similar or dissimilar they perceive images across different regions. Additionally, human annotations resulted in best overall and most balanced region classification performance on the class level, while ML Objects and ML Captions performed best for income regression. Humans and machines' similarity in their lack of bias when perceiving images highlights how they are more alike than what was initially perceived. The superior and fairer performance of using human annotations for region classification and machine annotations for income regression show how important the quality of the images and the discriminative features in the annotations are.

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