formation. Throughout history, cameras have enabled big governmental and corporate institutions to exercise control over people’s behavior and selfdevelopment. The company Kodak, for instance, actively taught people to associate picture taking with happy moments. It is through the advertisement of Kodak, and later through the influence of social media, that many of us now understand certain moments as something we should take a picture off and feel like the event was less real or valuable if we did not capture it on camera. On the basis of this historical analysis, Rosalie warns us to be aware of the potential for social control in the context of emerging smart camera applications. Another topic that Rosalie researched in detail is the idea that facial recognition tools cannot only misrecognize people in a technical, factual sense, but also in a social and legal sense. When facial recognition tools misrecognize someone’s identity or characteristics, this can simultaneously be a failure to recognize the person’s social and legal worth. This is a moral problem, not only because it is discriminatory, but also because it can harm people's sense of selfworth. Rosalie’s PhD research resulted in various publications as well as a blog series on the ethics of computer vision. Reach out to Rosalie for more information. 23 Rosalie Waelen Computer Vision News
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