CVPR 2023 Workshop

Third Workshop on

Ethical Considerations in Creative applications of Computer Vision (EC3V)

Vancouver, Canada, June 18 - 2023

Introduction

Computer vision technologies like generative image models are rapidly being integrated into creative domains to, for example, aid in artistic content retrieval and curation, generate synthetic media, or enable new forms of artistic methods and creations. However, creative AI technologies bring with them a host of ethical concerns, ranging from representational harms associated culturally sensitive matter to impact on artistic practices and copyright and ownership concerns. In particular, it is unclear what kinds of performance failures and biases these models bring when deployed in cross-cultural and non-western settings.

Our aim is to create a platform for interdisciplinary discussions on these issues among computer vision researchers, socio-technical researchers, policy makers, social scientists, artists, and other cultural stakeholders. We encourage retrospective discussions, position papers examining the cross-cultural and social impacts of creative applications of computer vision, ethical considerations in this domain including but not limited to artwork attributions, inequity in cultural performance, cultural appropriation, environmental impacts of generative arts, biases embedded in generative arts, dynamics of art marketplaces/platforms, and policy perspectives on creative AI.

This year the Generative Art Demo will invite artists to use computer vision technologies to create art pieces that center questions and topics of cultural significance and create space for collective reflections on the role of AI art especially within non-western communities.

This is the third CVPR workshop on "Ethical Considerations in Creative applications of Computer Vision".

Paper Submission

We encourage submissions of the following general categories:

Problem statements, introducing new areas of research within cross-cultural considerations in creative AI research.
Retrospectives on past creative content generation research and its ethical consequences.
Technical contributions in the context of creativity and computer vision (e.g. Computational Photography, Image and Video Synthesis, Datasets, Evaluation and Comparison of Vision Algorithms, Generative Model Evaluations)

Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Communities at the Margins

Our workshop is committed to diversity of disciplines and identities. The question of culture itself stimulates discussion on the Western-centric biases and values being embedded in and perpetuated by AI-driven tech. We would like this workshop to be a multi-disciplinary space where people from different cultural, identity and disciplinary perspectives can learn from each other. a task our culturally and disciplinarily diverse organizing team is committed to. We also want to be cognizant that communities are not homogenous, and there will be majority and marginalized cultures within a particular community, and will in particular solicit scholars who work on these questions from. We thus encourage scholars from non-traditional backgrounds, non-computer vision backgrounds to submit their research and artworks for the workshop.