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Despite their prevalence in society, social biases are difficult to identify, primarily because human judgements in this domain can be unreliable. We take an unsupervised approach to identifying gender bias against women at a comment level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Anjalie Field , Yulia Tsvetkov

This paper examines how synthetically generated faces and machine learning-based gender classification algorithms are affected by algorithmic lookism, the preferential treatment based on appearance. In experiments with 13,200 synthetically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Miriam Doh , Aditya Gulati , Matei Mancas , Nuria Oliver

Facial beauty prediction (FBP) aims to develop a machine that automatically makes facial attractiveness assessment. In the past those results were highly correlated with human ratings, therefore also with their bias in annotating. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Michael Danner , Thomas Weber , Leping Peng , Tobias Gerlach , Xueping Su , Matthias Rätsch

It is challenging to inpaint face images in the wild, due to the large variation of appearance, such as different poses, expressions and occlusions. A good inpainting algorithm should guarantee the realism of output, including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Yang Yang , Xiaojie Guo , Jiayi Ma , Lin Ma , Haibin Ling

Research in social psychology has shown that people's biased, subjective judgments about another's personality based solely on their appearance are not predictive of their actual personality traits. But researchers and companies often…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Ryan Steed , Aylin Caliskan

We address an essential problem in computer vision, that of unsupervised object segmentation in video, where a main object of interest in a video sequence should be automatically separated from its background. An efficient solution to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Emanuela Haller , Marius Leordeanu

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

We propose a self-supervised framework for learning facial attributes by simply watching videos of a human face speaking, laughing, and moving over time. To perform this task, we introduce a network, Facial Attributes-Net (FAb-Net), that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Olivia Wiles , A. Sophia Koepke , Andrew Zisserman

The detection of AI-generated faces is commonly approached as a binary classification task. Nevertheless, the resulting detectors frequently struggle to adapt to novel AI face generators, which evolve rapidly. In this paper, we describe an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Mian Zou , Baosheng Yu , Yibing Zhan , Kede Ma

Interpretation of deep learning models is a very challenging problem because of their large number of parameters, complex connections between nodes, and unintelligible feature representations. Despite this, many view interpretability as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Michael Tsang , James Enouen , Yan Liu

Predicting individual aesthetic preferences holds significant practical applications and academic implications for human society. However, existing studies mainly focus on learning and predicting the commonality of facial attractiveness,…

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This paper proposes a deep leaning method to address the challenging facial attractiveness prediction problem. The method constructs a convolutional neural network of facial beauty prediction using a new deep cascaded fine-turning scheme…

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Predictive algorithms have a powerful potential to offer benefits in areas as varied as medicine or education. However, these algorithms and the data they use are built by humans, consequently, they can inherit the bias and prejudices…

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The success of machine learning algorithms generally depends on data representation, and we hypothesize that this is because different representations can entangle and hide more or less the different explanatory factors of variation behind…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Yoshua Bengio , Aaron Courville , Pascal Vincent

Recently, the enactment of privacy regulations has promoted the rise of the machine unlearning paradigm. Existing studies of machine unlearning mainly focus on sample-wise unlearning, such that a learnt model will not expose user's privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Tao Guo , Song Guo , Jiewei Zhang , Wenchao Xu , Junxiao Wang

Recent developments in computer vision and machine learning have made it possible to create realistic manipulated videos of human faces, raising the issue of ensuring adequate protection against the malevolent effects unlocked by such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Michail Tarasiou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Human perception is structured around objects which form the basis for our higher-level cognition and impressive systematic generalization abilities. Yet most work on representation learning focuses on feature learning without even…

We present a novel approach for synthesizing photo-realistic images of people in arbitrary poses using generative adversarial learning. Given an input image of a person and a desired pose represented by a 2D skeleton, our model renders the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Albert Pumarola , Antonio Agudo , Alberto Sanfeliu , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

With the resurgence of interest in neural networks, representation learning has re-emerged as a central focus in artificial intelligence. Representation learning refers to the discovery of useful encodings of data that make domain-relevant…

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