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Motivation: In forensic or medico-legal investigation as well as in anthropology the gender determination of the subject (hit by a disastrous or any kind of traumatic situation) is mostly the first step. In state-of-the-art techniques the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Mumtaz A. Kaloi , Kun He

Recent work shows unequal performance of commercial face classification services in the gender classification task across intersectional groups defined by skin type and gender. Accuracy on dark-skinned females is significantly worse than on…

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of periocular-based sex-prediction (commonly referred to as gender classification) using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. In order to reflect a more challenging scenario where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Juan Tapia , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems amplify many concerns in society. These AI algorithms inherit different biases from humans due to mysterious operational flow and because of that it is becoming adverse in usage. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Artem Domnich , Gholamreza Anbarjafari

Recently, recognition of gender from facial images has gained a lot of importance. There exist a handful of research work that focus on feature extraction to obtain gender specific information from facial images. However, analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Avirup Bhattacharyya , Rajkumar Saini , Partha Pratim Roy , Debi Prosad Dogra , Samarjit Kar

Human parsing is a key topic in image processing with many applications, such as surveillance analysis, human-robot interaction, person search, and clothing category classification, among many others. Recently, due to the success of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xiaomei Zhang , Xiangyu Zhu , Ming Tang , Zhen Lei

Language has a profound impact on our thoughts, perceptions, and conceptions of gender roles. Gender-inclusive language is, therefore, a key tool to promote social inclusion and contribute to achieving gender equality. Consequently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jad Doughman , Wael Khreich

Mobile software apps ("apps") are one of the prevailing digital technologies that our modern life heavily depends on. A key issue in the development of apps is how to design gender-inclusive apps. Apps that do not consider gender inclusion,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Mojtaba Shahin , Mansooreh Zahedi , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Ali Rezaei Nasab

Fingerprint is an important biological feature of human body, which contains abundant gender information. At present, the academic research of fingerprint gender characteristics is generally at the level of understanding, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yong Qi , Yanping Li , Huawei Lin , Jiashu Chen , Huaiguang Lei

Studying the ways in which language is gendered has long been an area of interest in sociolinguistics. Studies have explored, for example, the speech of male and female characters in film and the language used to describe male and female…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Alexander Hoyle , Wolf-Sonkin , Hanna Wallach , Isabelle Augenstein , Ryan Cotterell

While several previous studies have analyzed gender bias in research, we are still missing a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in the AI community, covering diverse topics and different development trends. Using the AI Scholar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yiwen Ding , Jiarui Liu , Zhiheng Lyu , Kun Zhang , Bernhard Schoelkopf , Zhijing Jin , Rada Mihalcea

Algorithmic systems such as search engines and information retrieval platforms significantly influence academic visibility and the dissemination of knowledge. Despite assumptions of neutrality, these systems can reproduce or reinforce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Stefanie Urchs , Veronika Thurner , Matthias Aßenmacher , Ludwig Bothmann , Christian Heumann , Stephanie Thiemichen

The discussion around the problematic practice of gendering humanoid robots has risen to the foreground in the last few years. To lay the basis for a thorough understanding of how robot's "gender" has been understood within the Human-Robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Giulia Perugia , Dominika Lisy

Aging or gender variation can affect the face recognition performance dramatically. While most of the face recognition studies are focused on the variation of pose, illumination and expression, it is important to consider the influence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Caroline Werther , Morgan Ferguson , Kevin Park , Troy Kling , Cuixian Chen , Yishi Wang

Machine translation (MT) technology has facilitated our daily tasks by providing accessible shortcuts for gathering, elaborating and communicating information. However, it can suffer from biases that harm users and society at large. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Beatrice Savoldi , Marco Gaido , Luisa Bentivogli , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Artificial Intelligence has the capacity to amplify and perpetuate societal biases and presents profound ethical implications for society. Gender bias has been identified in the context of employment advertising and recruitment tools, due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Susan Leavy , Gerardine Meaney , Karen Wade , Derek Greene

Gender inequity is one of the biggest challenges facing the STEM workforce. While there are many studies that look into gender disparities within STEM and academia, the majority of these have been designed and executed by those unfamiliar…

Recently, deep neural networks have demonstrated excellent performances in recognizing the age and gender on human face images. However, these models were applied in a black-box manner with no information provided about which facial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-28 Sebastian Lapuschkin , Alexander Binder , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

Gender representation in mass media has long been mainly studied by qualitatively analyzing content. This article illustrates how automated computational methods may be used in this context to scale up such empirical observations and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Antoine Mazieres , Telmo Menezes , Camille Roth

Gender stereotypes are pervasive beliefs about individuals based on their gender that play a significant role in shaping societal attitudes, behaviours, and even opportunities. Recognizing the negative implications of gender stereotypes,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Isar Nejadgholi , Kathleen C. Fraser , Anna Kerkhof , Svetlana Kiritchenko