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Addressing Bias in Face Detectors using Decentralised Data collection with incentives

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022-10-31 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Recent developments in machine learning have shown that successful models do not rely only on huge amounts of data but the right kind of data. We show in this paper how this data-centric approach can be facilitated in a decentralized manner to enable efficient data collection for algorithms. Face detectors are a class of models that suffer heavily from bias issues as they have to work on a large variety of different data. We also propose a face detection and anonymization approach using a hybrid MultiTask Cascaded CNN with FaceNet Embeddings to benchmark multiple datasets to describe and evaluate the bias in the models towards different ethnicities, gender, and age groups along with ways to enrich fairness in a decentralized system of data labeling, correction, and verification by users to create a robust pipeline for model retraining.

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@article{arxiv.2210.16024,
  title  = {Addressing Bias in Face Detectors using Decentralised Data collection with incentives},
  author = {M. R. Ahan and Robin Lehmann and Richard Blythman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16024},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

8 pages. Accepted at NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Decentralization & Trustworthy Machine Learning in Web3

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