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Fairness in human-robot interaction critically depends on the reliability of the perceptual models that enable robots to interpret human behavior. While demographic biases have been widely studied in high-level facial analysis tasks, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Pablo Parte , Roberto Valle , José M. Buenaposada , Luis Baumela

Facial action unit recognition has many applications from market research to psychotherapy and from image captioning to entertainment. Despite its recent progress, deployment of these models has been impeded due to their limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Javier Hernandez , Daniel McDuff , Ognjen , Rudovic , Alberto Fung , Mary Czerwinski

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

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

Numerous studies have shown that existing Face Recognition Systems (FRS), including commercial ones, often exhibit biases toward certain ethnicities due to under-represented data. In this work, we explore ethnicity alteration and skin tone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Praveen Kumar Chandaliya , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Zahid Akhtar , Christoph Busch

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

Computer vision is widely deployed, has highly visible, society altering applications, and documented problems with bias and representation. Datasets are critical for benchmarking progress in fair computer vision, and often employ broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Zaid Khan , Yun Fu

Do very high accuracies of deep networks suggest pride of effective AI or are deep networks prejudiced? Do they suffer from in-group biases (own-race-bias and own-age-bias), and mimic the human behavior? Is in-group specific information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Shruti Nagpal , Maneet Singh , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa

Disease identification is a core, routine activity in observational health research. Cohorts impact downstream analyses, such as how a condition is characterized, how patient risk is defined, and what treatments are studied. It is thus…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-30 Tony Y. Sun , Shreyas Bhave , Jaan Altosaar , Noémie Elhadad

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

Over the past decades the machine and deep learning community has celebrated great achievements in challenging tasks such as image classification. The deep architecture of artificial neural networks together with the plenitude of available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jessica Deuschel , Bettina Finzel , Ines Rieger

In this paper, we propose a new deep framework which predicts facial attributes and leverage it as a soft modality to improve face identification performance. Our model is an end to end framework which consists of a convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Fariborz Taherkhani , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Jeremy Dawson

Research in social psychology has shown that people's biased, subjective judgments about another's personality based solely on their appearance are not predictive of their actual personality traits. But researchers and companies often…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Ryan Steed , Aylin Caliskan

Yes - This study investigates the impact of commonplace lossy image compression on face recognition algorithms with regard to the racial characteristics of the subject. We adopt a recently proposed racial phenotype-based bias analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Seyma Yucer , Matt Poyser , Noura Al Moubayed , Toby P. Breckon

Understanding how facial affect analysis (FAA) systems perform across different demographic groups requires reliable measurement of sensitive attributes such as ancestry, often approximated by skin tone, which itself is highly influenced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ana M. Cabanas , Alma Pedro , Domingo Mery

This study investigates the possibility of mitigating the demographic biases that affect face recognition technologies through the use of synthetic data. Demographic biases have the potential to impact individuals from specific demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales , Dominik Lawatsch , Florian Domin , Maxim Schaubert

The lack of a common platform and benchmark datasets for evaluating face obfuscation methods has been a challenge, with every method being tested using arbitrary experiments, datasets, and metrics. While prior work has demonstrated that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi , Poojitha Thota , Mohit Singhal , Abolfazl Asudeh , Gautam Das , Shirin Nilizadeh

Race classification is a long-standing challenge in the field of face image analysis. The investigation of salient facial features is an important task to avoid processing all face parts. Face segmentation strongly benefits several face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Khalil Khan , Jehad Ali , Irfan Uddin , Sahib Khan , Byeong-hee Roh

Face recognition is a long standing challenge in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to create systems that accurately detect, recognize, verify, and understand human faces. There are significant technical hurdles in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Michele Merler , Nalini Ratha , Rogerio S. Feris , John R. Smith

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