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Fair data pre-processing is a widely used strategy for mitigating bias in machine learning. A promising line of research focuses on calibrating datasets to satisfy a designed fairness policy so that sensitive attributes influence outcomes…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ying Zheng , Yangfan Jiang , Kian-Lee Tan

Machine learning systems are increasingly being used to make impactful decisions such as loan applications and criminal justice risk assessments, and as such, ensuring fairness of these systems is critical. This is often challenging as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 YooJung Choi , Meihua Dang , Guy Van den Broeck

Bias in classifiers is a severe issue of modern deep learning methods, especially for their application in safety- and security-critical areas. Often, the bias of a classifier is a direct consequence of a bias in the training dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Christian Reimers , Paul Bodesheim , Jakob Runge , Joachim Denzler

Various controls over the generated data can be extracted from the latent space of a pre-trained GAN, as it implicitly encodes the semantics of the training data. The discovered controls allow to vary semantic attributes in the generated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Perla Doubinsky , Nicolas Audebert , Michel Crucianu , Hervé Le Borgne

We propose a novel GAN training scheme that can handle any level of labeling in a unified manner. Our scheme introduces a form of artificial labeling that can incorporate manually defined labels, when available, and induce an alignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tomoki Watanabe , Paolo Favaro

Discrimination can occur when the underlying unbiased labels are overwritten by an agent with potential bias, resulting in biased datasets that unfairly harm specific groups and cause classifiers to inherit these biases. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yixuan Zhang , Boyu Li , Zenan Ling , Feng Zhou

Image classification datasets are often imbalanced, characteristic that negatively affects the accuracy of deep-learning classifiers. In this work we propose balancing GAN (BAGAN) as an augmentation tool to restore balance in imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Giovanni Mariani , Florian Scheidegger , Roxana Istrate , Costas Bekas , Cristiano Malossi

Fair machine learning methods seek to train models that balance model performance across demographic subgroups defined over sensitive attributes like race and gender. Although sensitive attributes are typically assumed to be known during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Akshaj Kumar Veldanda , Ivan Brugere , Sanghamitra Dutta , Alan Mishler , Siddharth Garg

While Diffusion Models (DM) exhibit remarkable performance across various image generative tasks, they nonetheless reflect the inherent bias presented in the training set. As DMs are now widely used in real-world applications, these biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yilei Jiang , Weihong Li , Yiyuan Zhang , Minghong Cai , Xiangyu Yue

Artificial intelligence nowadays plays an increasingly prominent role in our life since decisions that were once made by humans are now delegated to automated systems. A machine learning algorithm trained based on biased data, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Chen Zhao , Changbin Li , Jincheng Li , Feng Chen

In critical machine learning applications, ensuring fairness is essential to avoid perpetuating social inequities. In this work, we address the challenges of reducing bias and improving accuracy in data-scarce environments, where the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Romain Camilleri , Andrew Wagenmaker , Jamie Morgenstern , Lalit Jain , Kevin Jamieson

Mitigating the discrimination of machine learning models has gained increasing attention in medical image analysis. However, rare works focus on fair treatments for patients with multiple sensitive demographic ones, which is a crucial yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Wenlong Deng , Yuan Zhong , Qi Dou , Xiaoxiao Li

In this work, we present a framework to measure and mitigate intrinsic biases with respect to protected variables --such as gender-- in visual recognition tasks. We show that trained models significantly amplify the association of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Tianlu Wang , Jieyu Zhao , Mark Yatskar , Kai-Wei Chang , Vicente Ordonez

Diffusion Models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with unprecedented image generation capability. These models are widely used for data augmentation and creative applications. However, DMs reflect the biases present in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rishubh Parihar , Abhijnya Bhat , Abhipsa Basu , Saswat Mallick , Jogendra Nath Kundu , R. Venkatesh Babu

Surveillance systems play a critical role in security and reconnaissance, but their performance is often compromised by low-quality images and videos, leading to reduced accuracy in face recognition. Additionally, existing AI-based facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Anees Nashath Shaik , Barbara Villarini , Vasileios Argyriou

Algorithmic decision making based on computer vision and machine learning technologies continue to permeate our lives. But issues related to biases of these models and the extent to which they treat certain segments of the population…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Vishnu Suresh Lokhande , Aditya Kumar Akash , Sathya N. Ravi , Vikas Singh

A growing specter in the rise of machine learning is whether the decisions made by machine learning models are fair. While research is already underway to formalize a machine-learning concept of fairness and to design frameworks for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Tao Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Jing Li , Mengde Han , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Augmenting data in image space (eg. flipping, cropping etc) and activation space (eg. dropout) are being widely used to regularise deep neural networks and have been successfully applied on several computer vision tasks. Unlike previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Binod Bhattarai , Rumeysa Bodur , Tae-Kyun Kim

Equal Opportunity and Fairness are receiving increasing attention in artificial intelligence. Stereotyping is another source of discrimination, which yet has been unstudied in literature. GAN-made faces would be exposed to such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Mohammadhossein Toutiaee , Soheyla Amirian , John A. Miller , Sheng Li

As the social impact of visual recognition has been under scrutiny, several protected-attribute balanced datasets emerged to address dataset bias in imbalanced datasets. However, in facial attribute classification, dataset bias stems from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Jiazhi Li , Wael Abd-Almageed