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The human hand possesses distinctive features which can reveal gender information. In addition, the hand is considered one of the primary biometric traits used to identify a person. In this work, we propose a large dataset of human hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Mahmoud Afifi

In the last few years, face morphing has been shown to be a complex challenge for Face Recognition Systems (FRS). Thus, the evaluation of other biometric modalities such as fingerprint, iris, and others must be explored and evaluated to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Juan E. Tapia , Sebastian Gonzalez , Daniel Benalcazar , Christoph Busch

Several studies have raised awareness about social biases in image generative models, demonstrating their predisposition towards stereotypes and imbalances. This paper contributes to this growing body of research by introducing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yankun Wu , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia

Face recognition systems (FRS) exhibit significant accuracy differences based on the user's gender. Since such a gender gap reduces the trustworthiness of FRS, more recent efforts have tried to find the causes. However, these studies make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Paul Jonas Kurz , Haiyu Wu , Kevin W. Bowyer , Philipp Terhörst

In this paper, we investigate the impact of objects on gender bias in image captioning systems. Our results show that only gender-specific objects have a strong gender bias (e.g., women-lipstick). In addition, we propose a visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ahmed Sabir , Lluís Padró

Iris recognition has been an active research area during last few decades, because of its wide applications in security, from airports to homeland security border control. Different features and algorithms have been proposed for iris…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi

In this study the authors will look at the detection and segmentation of the iris and its influence on the overall performance of the iris-biometric tool chain. The authors will examine whether the segmentation accuracy, based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Heinz Hofbauer , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Josef Bigun , Andreas Uhl

This work presents a novel strategy to measure bias in text-to-image models. Using paired prompts that specify gender and vaguely reference an object (e.g. "a man/woman holding an item") we can examine whether certain objects are associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Harvey Mannering

Unlike text, speech conveys information about the speaker, such as gender, through acoustic cues like pitch. This gives rise to modality-specific bias concerns. For example, in speech translation (ST), when translating from languages with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Lina Conti , Dennis Fucci , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Guillaume Wisniewski , Luisa Bentivogli

Iris recognition technology plays a critical role in biometric identification systems, but their performance can be affected by variations in iris pigmentation. In this work, we investigate the impact of iris pigmentation on the efficacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Geetanjali Sharma , Abhishek Tandon , Gaurav Jaswal , Aditya Nigam , Raghavendra Ramachandra

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…

This is a study on facial information analysis technology for estimating gender and age, and poses are estimated using a transformation relationship matrix between the camera coordinate system and the world coordinate system for estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Gilheum Park , Sua Jung

With the increasing adoption of iris recognition systems and the expansion of large-scale enrollment databases, there is a growing need to efficiently assess iris image quality at the time of acquisition, particularly to model user…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Jack Pessaud , Eric Moran , John Nguyen , Joel Palko

The selection of the optimal feature subset and the classification has become an important issue in the field of iris recognition. In this paper we propose several methods for iris feature subset selection and vector creation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-29 Amir Azizi , Hamid Reza Pourreza

In recent times, there have been increasing accusations on artificial intelligence systems and algorithms of computer vision of possessing implicit biases. Even though these conversations are more prevalent now and systems are improving by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Sharadha Srinivasan , Madan Musuvathi

Gender biases are known to exist within large-scale visual datasets and can be reflected or even amplified in downstream models. Many prior works have proposed methods for mitigating gender biases, often by attempting to remove gender…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nicole Meister , Dora Zhao , Angelina Wang , Vikram V. Ramaswamy , Ruth Fong , Olga Russakovsky

Panoramic Dental Radiography (PDR) image processing is one of the most extensively used manual methods for gender determination in forensic medicine. With the assistance of the PDR images, a person's biological gender determination can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 I. Atas

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis on extracting soft biometric traits, age and gender, from ear images. Although there have been a few previous work on gender classification using ear images, to the best of our knowledge, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Nurdan Sezgin , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Biases in culture, gender, ethnicity, etc. have existed for decades and have affected many areas of human social interaction. These biases have been shown to impact machine learning (ML) models, and for natural language processing (NLP),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Dhanasekar Sundararaman , Vivek Subramanian

Soft biometrics analysis is seen as an important research topic, given its relevance to various applications. However, even though it is frequently seen as a solved task, it can still be very hard to perform in wild conditions, under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tiago Roxo , Hugo Proença