Predicting Decision-Making in the Future: Human Versus Machine

Hoe Sung Ryu, Uijong Ju, Christian Wallraven

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Abstract

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become remarkably successful in data prediction, and have even been used to predict future actions based on limited input. This raises the question: do these systems actually “understand” the event similar to humans? Here, we address this issue using videos taken from an accident situation in a driving simulation. In this situation, drivers had to choose between crashing into a suddenly-appeared obstacle or steering their car off a previously indicated cliff. We compared how well humans and a DNN predicted this decision as a function of time before the event. The DNN outperformed humans for early time-points, but had an equal performance for later time-points. Interestingly, spatio-temporal image manipulations and Grad-CAM visualizations uncovered some expected behavior, but also highlighted potential differences in temporal processing for the DNN.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition - 6th Asian Conference, ACPR 2021, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsChristian Wallraven, Qingshan Liu, Hajime Nagahara
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages127-141
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783031024436
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event6th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, ACPR 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 2021 Nov 92021 Nov 12

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13189 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, ACPR 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period21/11/921/11/12

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea under Grant NRF-2017M3C7A1041824 and by two Institutes of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP) grants funded by the Korean government (MSIT): Development of BCI based Brain and Cognitive Computing Technology for Recognizing User’s Intentions using Deep Learning (2017-0-00451), and Artificial Intelligence Graduate School Program (Korea University) (2019-0-00079).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

  • Decision-making
  • Deep learning
  • Humans versus machines
  • Video analysis
  • Video prediction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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