DERI Seminar with Dr Jerone Andrews, Research Scientist at Sony AI

When: Thursday, January 30, 2025, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Teams

Speaker: Dr Jerone Andrews, Research Scientist at Sony AI

Title: Ethical Considerations for Responsible Data Curation

Abstract: In this talk, Jerone Andrews will explore the privacy and bias challenges in human-centric computer vision (HCCV) data curation, highlighting issues with nonconsensual web scraping and the lack of metadata for fairness and robustness evaluations. He will propose proactive recommendations—focusing on purpose, privacy, consent, and diversity—to address these concerns. Drawing on current practices, guidelines, and audits, Jerone will present an ante hoc approach to embedding ethical considerations into HCCV dataset creation.

Bio: Jerone Andrews is a Senior Research Scientist at Sony AI, where he leads a team focused on responsible data curation, bias detection and mitigation, and representation learning. His work has been recognised with awards such as the ICML 2024 Best Paper Award and the ECCV 2024 Best Paper Candidate Award, and he has contributed to patents and open-source projects.

Jerone holds a Ph.D. and MRes in Computer Science from University College London, where his research was funded by the EPSRC, and an MSci in Mathematics from King’s College London. His early career included a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship and a British Science Association Media Fellowship with BBC Future. He has also been a Visiting Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo and Telefónica Research in Barcelona.

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