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Porträtt av Ola Hall

Ola Hall

Universitetslektor, prefekt

Porträtt av Ola Hall

A review of explainable AI in the satellite data, deep machine learning, and human poverty domain

Författare

  • Ola Hall
  • Mattias Ohlsson
  • Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

Summary, in English

Recent advances in artificial intelligence and deep machine learning have created a step change in how to measure human development indicators, in particular asset-based poverty. The combination of satellite imagery and deep machine learning now has the capability to estimate some types of poverty at a level close to what is achieved with traditional household surveys. An increasingly important issue beyond static estimations is whether this technology can contribute to scientific discovery and, consequently, new knowledge in the poverty and welfare domain. A foundation for achieving scientific insights is domain knowledge, which in turn translates into explainability and scientific consistency. We perform an integrative literature review focusing on three core elements relevant in this context—transparency, interpretability, and explainability—and investigate how they relate to the poverty, machine learning, and satellite imagery nexus. Our inclusion criteria for papers are that they cover poverty/wealth prediction, using survey data as the basis for the ground truth poverty/wealth estimates, be applicable to both urban and rural settings, use satellite images as the basis for at least some of the inputs (features), and the method should include deep neural networks. Our review of 32 papers shows that the status of the three core elements of explainable machine learning (transparency, interpretability, and domain knowledge) is varied and does not completely fulfill the requirements set up for scientific insights and discoveries. We argue that explainability is essential to support wider dissemination and acceptance of this research in the development community and that explainability means more than just interpretability.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
  • Beräkningsbiologi och biologisk fysik - Genomgår omorganisation
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publiceringsår

2022-10

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Patterns

Volym

3

Issue

10

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Cell Press

Ämne

  • Computer Science

Nyckelord

  • machine learning
  • poverty and satellite imagery
  • XAI

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2666-3899