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Counterfactual fairness methods address the question: How would the prediction change if the sensitive identity attributes referenced in the text instance were different? These methods are entirely based on generating counterfactuals for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Mohit Wadhwa , Mohan Bhambhani , Ashvini Jindal , Uma Sawant , Ramanujam Madhavan

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

As the data-driven decision process becomes dominating for industrial applications, fairness-aware machine learning arouses great attention in various areas. This work proposes fairness penalties learned by neural networks with a simple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song , Guang Lin

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 real-world scenarios, many factors may harm face recognition performance, e.g., large pose, bad illumination,low resolution, blur and noise. To address these challenges, previous efforts usually first restore the low-quality faces to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Xiaoguang Tu , Jian Zhao , Qiankun Liu , Wenjie Ai , Guodong Guo , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Jiashi Feng

State-of-the-art face recognition (FR) approaches have shown remarkable results in predicting whether two faces belong to the same identity, yielding accuracies between 92% and 100% depending on the difficulty of the protocol. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Stefan Hörmann , Tianlin Kong , Torben Teepe , Fabian Herzog , Martin Knoche , Gerhard Rigoll

The widespread integration of face recognition technologies into various applications (e.g., access control and personalized advertising) necessitates a critical emphasis on fairness. While previous efforts have focused on demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yifan Liu , Ruichen Yao , Yaokun Liu , Ruohan Zong , Zelin Li , Yang Zhang , Dong Wang

Re-identifying a person across multiple disjoint camera views is important for intelligent video surveillance, smart retailing and many other applications. However, existing person re-identification (ReID) methods are challenged by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Lingxiao He , Yinggang Wang , Wu Liu , Xingyu Liao , He Zhao , Zhenan Sun , Jiashi Feng

The development of fair and unbiased machine learning models remains an ongoing objective for researchers in the field of artificial intelligence. We introduce the Differential Adjusted Parity (DAP) loss to produce unbiased informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

This paper is the first to explore the question of whether images that are classified incorrectly by a face analytics algorithm (e.g., gender classification) are any more or less likely to participate in an image pair that results in a face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Ying Qiu , Vítor Albiero , Michael C. King , Kevin W. Bowyer

Continual face forgery detection (CFFD) requires detectors to learn emerging forgery paradigms without forgetting previously seen manipulations. Existing CFFD methods commonly rely on replaying a small amount of past data to mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tianshuo Zhang , Haoyuan Zhang , Siran Peng , Weisong Zhao , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhen Lei

We propose a unified framework for fair regression tasks formulated as risk minimization problems subject to a demographic parity constraint. Unlike many existing approaches that are limited to specific loss functions or rely on challenging…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-16 Yongzhen Feng , Weiwei Wang , Raymond K. W. Wong , Xianyang Zhang

Machine learning progress has historically prioritized model-centric innovations, yet achievable performance is frequently capped by the intrinsic complexity of the data itself. In this work, we isolate and quantify the impact of instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Abolfazl Mohammadi-Seif , Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Over the recent years, the advancements in deep face recognition have fueled an increasing demand for large and diverse datasets. Nevertheless, the authentic data acquired to create those datasets is typically sourced from the web, which,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Andrea Atzori , Pietro Cosseddu , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

We present a self-supervised learning method to learn audio and video representations. Prior work uses the natural correspondence between audio and video to define a standard cross-modal instance discrimination task, where a model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pedro Morgado , Ishan Misra , Nuno Vasconcelos

Face recognition approaches often rely on equal image resolution for verifying faces on two images. However, in practical applications, those image resolutions are usually not in the same range due to different image capture mechanisms or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Martin Knoche , Stefan Hörmann , Gerhard Rigoll

Fairness-aware statistical learning is essential for mitigating discrimination against protected attributes such as gender, race, and ethnicity in data-driven decision-making. This is particularly critical in high-stakes applications like…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-15 Fei Huang , Junhao Shen , Yanrong Yang , Ran Zhao

Most studies to date that have examined demographic variations in face recognition accuracy have analyzed 1-to-1 matching accuracy, using images that could be described as "government ID quality". This paper analyzes the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Aman Bhatta , Gabriella Pangelinan , Michael C. King , Kevin W. Bowyer

There has been growing interest in developing optimal individualized treatment rules (ITRs) in various fields, such as precision medicine, business decision-making, and social welfare distribution. The application of ITRs within a societal…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-29 Wenhai Cui , Wen Su , Xiaodong Yan , Donglin Zeng , Xingqiu Zhao

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