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This paper addresses the evaluation of the performance of the decision support system that utilizes face and facial expression biometrics. The evaluation criteria include risk of error and related reliability of decision, as well as their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Kenneth Lai , Svetlana N. Yanushkevich , Vlad Shmerko

We demonstrate an approach to face attribute detection that retains or improves attribute detection accuracy across gender and race subgroups by learning demographic information prior to learning the attribute detection task. The system,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Hee Jung Ryu , Hartwig Adam , Margaret Mitchell

Datasets play an important role in the progress of facial expression recognition algorithms, but they may suffer from obvious biases caused by different cultures and collection conditions. To look deeper into this bias, we first conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Shan Li , Weihong Deng

The problem of face alignment has been intensively studied in the past years. A large number of novel methods have been proposed and reported very good performance on benchmark dataset such as 300W. However, the differences in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Heng Yang , Xuhui Jia , Chen Change Loy , Peter Robinson

In the post-pandemic era, wearing face masks has posed great challenge to the ordinary face recognition. In the previous study, researchers has applied pretrained VGG16, and ResNet50 to extract features on the elaborate curated existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Rui Cai , Xuying Ning , Peter N. Belhumeur

In recent years, media reports have called out bias and racism in face recognition technology. We review experimental results exploring several speculated causes for asymmetric cross-demographic performance. We consider accuracy differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Gabriella Pangelinan , K. S. Krishnapriya , Vitor Albiero , Grace Bezold , Kai Zhang , Kushal Vangara , Michael C. King , Kevin W. Bowyer

Recent news articles have accused face recognition of being "biased", "sexist" or "racist". There is consensus in the research literature that face recognition accuracy is lower for females, who often have both a higher false match rate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Vítor Albiero , Kevin W. Bowyer

Recent advances in machine learning and computer vision have led to reported facial recognition accuracies surpassing human performance. We question if these systems will translate to real-world forensic scenarios in which a potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Justin Norman , Shruti Agarwal , Hany Farid

The performance of deep neural networks for image recognition tasks such as predicting a smiling face is known to degrade with under-represented classes of sensitive attributes. We address this problem by introducing fairness-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Tobias Hänel , Nishant Kumar , Dmitrij Schlesinger , Mengze Li , Erdem Ünal , Abouzar Eslami , Stefan Gumhold

Currently available face datasets mainly consist of a large number of high-quality and a small number of low-quality samples. As a result, a Face Recognition (FR) network fails to learn the distribution of low-quality samples since they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Mohammad Saeed Ebrahimi Saadabadi , Sahar Rahimi Malakshan , Ali Zafari , Moktari Mostofa , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Ensuring that AI-based facial recognition systems produce fair predictions and work equally well across all demographic groups is crucial. Earlier systems often exhibited demographic bias, particularly in gender and racial classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shweta Patel , Dakshina Ranjan Kisku

Data owners face increasing liability for how the use of their data could harm under-priviliged communities. Stakeholders would like to identify the characteristics of data that lead to algorithms being biased against any particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Jonathan Vasquez , Xavier Gitiaux , Huzefa Rangwala

Recent face recognition experiments on the LFW benchmark show that face recognition is performing stunningly well, surpassing human recognition rates. In this paper, we study face recognition at scale. Specifically, we have collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-08 D. Miller , E. Brossard , S. Seitz , I. Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

Whilst recent face-recognition (FR) techniques have made significant progress on recognising constrained high-resolution web images, the same cannot be said on natively unconstrained low-resolution images at large scales. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Zhiyi Cheng , Xiatian Zhu , Shaogang Gong

Deep learning-based recognition systems are deployed at scale for several real-world applications that inevitably involve our social life. Although being of great support when making complex decisions, they might capture spurious data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Leonardo Iurada , Silvia Bucci , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tatiana Tommasi

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) systems based on deep learning have achieved impressive performance in recent years. However, these models often exhibit demographic biases, particularly with respect to age, which can compromise their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Julia Sanchez-Perez , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

Open-set face recognition refers to a scenario in which biometric systems have incomplete knowledge of all existing subjects. Therefore, they are expected to prevent face samples of unregistered subjects from being identified as previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Rafael Henrique Vareto , Manuel Günther , William Robson Schwartz

Face recognition (FR) stands as one of the most crucial applications in computer vision. The accuracy of FR models has significantly improved in recent years due to the availability of large-scale human face datasets. However, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xiao Lin , Yuge Huang , Jianqing Xu , Yuxi Mi , Shuigeng Zhou , Shouhong Ding

Facial Expression Recognition(FER) is one of the most important topic in Human-Computer interactions(HCI). In this work we report details and experimental results about a facial expression recognition method based on state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Donato Cafarelli , Fabio Valerio Massoli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

Fairness across different demographic groups is an essential criterion for face-related tasks, Face Attribute Classification (FAC) being a prominent example. Apart from this trend, Federated Learning (FL) is increasingly gaining traction as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Samhita Kanaparthy , Manisha Padala , Sankarshan Damle , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla , Sujit Gujar