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Face recognition performance has seen a tremendous gain in recent years, mostly due to the availability of large-scale face images dataset that can be exploited by deep neural networks to learn powerful face representations. However, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Haoyu Qin

State-of-the-art deep networks implicitly encode gender information while being trained for face recognition. Gender is often viewed as an important attribute with respect to identifying faces. However, the implicit encoding of gender…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Prithviraj Dhar , Joshua Gleason , Hossein Souri , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Internet search affects people's cognition of the world, so mitigating biases in search results and learning fair models is imperative for social good. We study a unique gender bias in image search in this work: the search images are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jialu Wang , Yang Liu , Xin Eric Wang

A face image not only provides details about the identity of a subject but also reveals several attributes such as gender, race, sexual orientation, and age. Advancements in machine learning algorithms and popularity of sharing images on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Saheb Chhabra , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Gaurav Gupta

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved human-level accuracy in face identification (Phillips et al., 2018), though it is unclear how accurately they discriminate highly-similar faces. Here, humans and a DCNN performed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Connor J. Parde , Virginia E. Strehle , Vivekjyoti Banerjee , Ying Hu , Jacqueline G. Cavazos , Carlos D. Castillo , Alice J. O'Toole

Fabricating experimental pictures in research work is a serious academic misconduct, which should better be detected in the reviewing process. However, due to large number of submissions, the detection whether a picture is fabricated or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Binrui Shen , Qiang Niu , Shengxin Zhu

Gender recognition from unconstrained face images is a challenging task due to the high degree of misalignment, pose, expression, and illumination variation. In previous works, the recognition of gender from unconstrained face images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Olasimbo Ayodeji Arigbabu , Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad , Wan Azizun Wan Adnan , Salman Yussof , Saif Mahmood

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…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cristina Manresa-Yee , Silvia Ramis

Measuring biases of vision systems with respect to protected attributes like gender and age is critical as these systems gain widespread use in society. However, significant correlations between attributes in benchmark datasets make it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Chandan Singh , Guha Balakrishnan , Pietro Perona

Soft biometric information such as gender can contribute to many applications like as identification and security. This paper explores the use of a Binary Statistical Features (BSIF) algorithm for classifying gender from iris texture images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Juan Tapia , Claudia Arellano

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

Face recognition (FR) systems continue to spread in our daily lives with an increasing demand for higher explainability and interpretability of FR systems that are mainly based on deep learning. While bias across demographic groups in FR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Marco Huber , Meiling Fang , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

Carefully standardized facial images of 591 participants were taken in the laboratory, while controlling for self-presentation, facial expression, head orientation, and image properties. They were presented to human raters and a facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Michal Kosinski , Poruz Khambatta , Yilun Wang

The task of image captioning implicitly involves gender identification. However, due to the gender bias in data, gender identification by an image captioning model suffers. Also, the gender-activity bias, owing to the word-by-word…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Shruti Bhargava , David Forsyth

This paper strives to address image classifier bias, with a focus on both feature and label embedding spaces. Previous works have shown that spurious correlations from protected attributes, such as age, gender, or skin tone, can cause…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 William Thong , Cees G. M. Snoek

Large scale image classification models trained on top of popular datasets such as Imagenet have shown to have a distributional skew which leads to disparities in prediction accuracies across different subsections of population…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Rohan Mahadev , Anindya Chakravarti

Recent research used machine learning methods to predict a person's sexual orientation from their photograph (Wang and Kosinski, 2017). To verify this result, two of these models are replicated, one based on a deep neural network (DNN) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 John Leuner

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), into dermatological diagnosis demonstrates substantial clinical potential. While existing literature predominantly benchmarks algorithmic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Loris Cino , Pier Luigi Mazzeo , Alessandro Martella , Giulia Radi , Renato Rossi , Cosimo Distante

Neural networks achieve the state-of-the-art in image classification tasks. However, they can encode spurious variations or biases that may be present in the training data. For example, training an age predictor on a dataset that is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Mohsan Alvi , Andrew Zisserman , Christoffer Nellaker

This paper considers the problem of error correction in multi-class classification of face images on unbalanced samples. The study is based on the analysis of a data frame containing images labeled by seven different emotional states of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Andrey A. Lebedev , Victor B. Kazantsev , Sergey V. Stasenko