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Face recognition systems have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples resulting from adding small perturbations to probe images. Such adversarial images can lead state-of-the-art face recognition systems to falsely reject a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Debayan Deb , Jianbang Zhang , Anil K. Jain

The performance of modern face recognition systems is a function of the dataset on which they are trained. Most datasets are largely biased toward "near-frontal" views with benign lighting conditions, negatively effecting recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Daniel Crispell , Octavian Biris , Nate Crosswhite , Jeffrey Byrne , Joseph L. Mundy

There are demographic biases present in current facial recognition (FR) models. To measure these biases across different ethnic and gender subgroups, we introduce our Balanced Faces in the Wild (BFW) dataset. This dataset allows for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Joseph P Robinson , Can Qin , Yann Henon , Samson Timoner , Yun Fu

AI systems rely on extensive training on large datasets to address various tasks. However, image-based systems, particularly those used for demographic attribute prediction, face significant challenges. Many current face image datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Georgia Baltsou , Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos

Synthetic data is emerging as a substitute for authentic data to solve ethical and legal challenges in handling authentic face data. The current models can create real-looking face images of people who do not exist. However, it is a known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Marco Huber , Anh Thi Luu , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

Statistical shape models (SSM) have been well-established as an excellent tool for identifying variations in the morphology of anatomy across the underlying population. Shape models use consistent shape representation across all the samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Mokshagna Sai Teja Karanam , Tushar Kataria , Krithika Iyer , Shireen Elhabian

Facial recognition systems have achieved remarkable success by leveraging deep neural networks, advanced loss functions, and large-scale datasets. However, their performance often deteriorates in real-world scenarios involving low-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sadaf Gulshad , Abdullah Aldahlawi

Over the past years, the main research innovations in face recognition focused on training deep neural networks on large-scale identity-labeled datasets using variations of multi-class classification losses. However, many of these datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Fadi Boutros , Marcel Klemt , Meiling Fang , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

As AI systems become more embedded in everyday life, the development of fair and unbiased models becomes more critical. Considering the social impact of AI systems is not merely a technical challenge but a moral imperative. As evidenced in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Aida Tayebi , Ali Khodabandeh Yalabadi , Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay

In this paper, a deep learning framework is proposed for automatic facial emotion based on deep convolutional networks. In order to increase the generalization ability and the robustness of the method, the dataset size is increased by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Serap Kırbız

With the ever-growing complexity of deep learning models for face recognition, it becomes hard to deploy these systems in real life. Researchers have two options: 1) use smaller models; 2) compress their current models. Since the usage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Pedro C. Neto , Eduarda Caldeira , Jaime S. Cardoso , Ana F. Sequeira

The small amount of training data for many state-of-the-art deep learning-based Face Recognition (FR) systems causes a marked deterioration in their performance. Although a considerable amount of research has addressed this issue by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Soroush Hashemifar , Abdolreza Marefat , Javad Hassannataj Joloudari , Hamid Hassanpour

We propose a novel approach to mitigate biases in computer vision models by utilizing counterfactual generation and fine-tuning. While counterfactuals have been used to analyze and address biases in DNN models, the counterfactuals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Pushkar Shukla , Dhruv Srikanth , Lee Cohen , Matthew Turk

Racial bias is an important issue in biometric, but has not been thoroughly studied in deep face recognition. In this paper, we first contribute a dedicated dataset called Racial Faces in-the-Wild (RFW) database, on which we firmly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Mei Wang , Weihong Deng , Jiani Hu , Xunqiang Tao , Yaohai Huang

In this paper, we propose a novel explanatory framework aimed to provide a better understanding of how face recognition models perform as the underlying data characteristics (protected attributes: gender, ethnicity, age; non-protected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Andrea Atzori , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

Data augmentation is a widely used technique for enhancing the generalization ability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in image classification tasks. Occlusion is a critical factor that affects on the generalization ability of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Suorong Yang , Jinqiao Li , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen

Measuring algorithmic bias is crucial both to assess algorithmic fairness, and to guide the improvement of algorithms. Current methods to measure algorithmic bias in computer vision, which are based on observational datasets, are inadequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Guha Balakrishnan , Yuanjun Xiong , Wei Xia , Pietro Perona

We propose an approach for unsupervised domain adaptation for the task of estimating someone's age from a given face image. In order to avoid the propagation of racial bias in most publicly available face image datasets into the inefficacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Apoorva Gokhale , Astuti Sharma , Kaustav Datta , Savyasachi

Gender classification systems often inherit and amplify demographic imbalances in their training data. We first audit five widely used gender classification datasets, revealing that all suffer from significant intersectional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Tadesse K Bahiru , Natnael Tilahun Sinshaw , Teshager Hailemariam Moges , Dheeraj Kumar Singh

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 M. R. Ahan , Robin Lehmann , Richard Blythman