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Face Recognition (FR) plays a crucial role in many critical (high-stakes) applications, where errors in the recognition process can lead to serious consequences. Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) techniques enhance FR systems by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Žiga Babnik , Deepak Kumar Jain , Peter Peer , Vitomir Štruc

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

Machine learning models can inherit biases from their training data, leading to discriminatory or inaccurate predictions. This is particularly concerning with the increasing use of large, unsupervised datasets for training foundational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Aranzazu Jurio , Mikel Galar

Demographic bias is one of the major challenges for face recognition systems. The majority of existing studies on demographic biases are heavily dependent on specific demographic groups or demographic classifier, making it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Tetsushi Ohki , Yuya Sato , Masakatsu Nishigaki , Koichi Ito

Facial expression-based human emotion recognition is a critical research area in psychology and medicine. State-of-the-art classification performance is only reached by end-to-end trained neural networks. Nevertheless, such black-box models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tim Büchner , Niklas Penzel , Orlando Guntinas-Lichius , Joachim Denzler

The increasing integration of machine learning algorithms in daily life underscores the critical need for fairness and equity in their deployment. As these technologies play a pivotal role in decision-making, addressing biases across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Guanyu Hu , Eleni Papadopoulou , Dimitrios Kollias , Paraskevi Tzouveli , Jie Wei , Xinyu Yang

Face Recognition is a common problem in Machine Learning. This technology has already been widely used in our lives. For example, Facebook can automatically tag people's faces in images, and also some mobile devices use face recognition to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Fares Jalled

Existing public face datasets are strongly biased toward Caucasian faces, and other races (e.g., Latino) are significantly underrepresented. This can lead to inconsistent model accuracy, limit the applicability of face analytic systems to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Kimmo Kärkkäinen , Jungseock Joo

Reliable facial expression learning (FEL) involves the effective learning of distinctive facial expression characteristics for more reliable, unbiased and accurate predictions in real-life settings. However, current systems struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Taki Hasan Rafi , Raima Islam , Karlo Serbetar , Dong Kyu Chae

Facial recognition technology has made significant advances, yet its effectiveness across diverse ethnic backgrounds, particularly in specific Indian demographics, is less explored. This paper presents a detailed evaluation of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Pranav Pant , Niharika Dadu , Harsh V. Singh , Anshul Thakur

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

Facial recognition is one of the most academically studied and industrially developed areas within computer vision where we readily find associated applications deployed globally. This widespread adoption has uncovered significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Seyma Yucer , Furkan Tektas , Noura Al Moubayed , Toby P. Breckon

This study addresses the racial biases in facial expression recognition (FER) systems within Large Multimodal Foundation Models (LMFMs). Despite advances in deep learning and the availability of diverse datasets, FER systems often exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Kaylee Chhua , Zhoujinyi Wen , Vedant Hathalia , Kevin Zhu , Sean O'Brien

Current research on soft-biometrics showed that privacy-sensitive information can be deduced from biometric templates of an individual. Since for many applications, these templates are expected to be used for recognition purposes only, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Philipp Terhörst , Marco Huber , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Impact due to demographic factors such as age, sex, race, etc., has been studied extensively in automated face recognition systems. However, the impact of \textit{digitally modified} demographic and facial attributes on face recognition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Sudipta Banerjee , Aditi Aggarwal , Arun Ross

Modern face recognition systems leverage datasets containing images of hundreds of thousands of specific individuals' faces to train deep convolutional neural networks to learn an embedding space that maps an arbitrary individual's face to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Chris Dulhanty , Alexander Wong

The most popular face recognition benchmarks assume a distribution of subjects without much attention to their demographic attributes. In this work, we perform a comprehensive discrimination-aware experimentation of deep learning-based face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ignacio Serna , Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Manuel Cebrian , Nick Obradovich , Iyad Rahwan

Whilst face recognition applications are becoming increasingly prevalent within our daily lives, leading approaches in the field still suffer from performance bias to the detriment of some racial profiles within society. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Seyma Yucer , Samet Akçay , Noura Al-Moubayed , Toby P. Breckon

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

With rapid advances in machine learning (ML), more of this technology is being deployed into the real world interacting with us and our environment. One of the most widely applied application of ML is facial recognition as it is running on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Léa Steinacker , Miriam Meckel , Genia Kostka , Damian Borth