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A number of studies suggest bias of the face biometrics, i.e., face recognition and soft-biometric estimation methods, across gender, race, and age groups. There is a recent urge to investigate the bias of different biometric modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Anoop Krishnan , Ali Almadan , Ajita Rattani

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are now being utilized in all facets of our lives such as healthcare, education and employment. Since they are used in numerous sensitive environments and make decisions that can be life altering,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Tahsin Alamgir Kheya , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal

Models that are learned from real-world data are often biased because the data used to train them is biased. This can propagate systemic human biases that exist and ultimately lead to inequitable treatment of people, especially minorities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Daniel McDuff , Shuang Ma , Yale Song , Ashish Kapoor

Automatic face recognition is a research area with high popularity. Many different face recognition algorithms have been proposed in the last thirty years of intensive research in the field. With the popularity of deep learning and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Tiago de Freitas Pereira , Dominic Schmidli , Yu Linghu , Xinyi Zhang , Sébastien Marcel , Manuel Günther

Societal bias towards certain communities is a big problem that affects a lot of machine learning systems. This work aims at addressing the racial bias present in many modern gender recognition systems. We learn race invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Komal K. Teru , Aishik Chakraborty

Most machine learning models are validated and tested on fixed datasets. This can give an incomplete picture of the capabilities and weaknesses of the model. Such weaknesses can be revealed at test time in the real world. The risks involved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Nataniel Ruiz , Adam Kortylewski , Weichao Qiu , Cihang Xie , Sarah Adel Bargal , Alan Yuille , Stan Sclaroff

Facial expression recognition (FER) algorithms classify facial expressions into emotions such as happy, sad, or angry. An evaluative challenge facing FER algorithms is the fall in performance when detecting spontaneous expressions compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Rina Khan , Catherine Stinson

Recently, concerns regarding potential biases in the underlying algorithms of many automated systems (including biometrics) have been raised. In this context, a biased algorithm produces statistically different outcomes for different groups…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 P. Drozdowski , B. Prommegger , G. Wimmer , R. Schraml , C. Rathgeb , A. Uhl , C. Busch

With the rise of deep learning, facial recognition technology has seen extensive research and rapid development. Although facial recognition is considered a mature technology, we find that existing open-source models and commercial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Caixin Kang , Yubo Chen , Shouwei Ruan , Shiji Zhao , Ruochen Zhang , Jiayi Wang , Shan Fu , Xingxing Wei

Human biases have been shown to influence the performance of models and algorithms in various fields, including Natural Language Processing. While the study of this phenomenon is garnering focus in recent years, the available resources are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ana Sofia Evans , Helena Moniz , Luísa Coheur

Recent work has uncovered alarming disparities in the performance of machine learning models in healthcare. In this study, we explore whether such disparities are present in the UK Biobank fundus retinal images by training and evaluating a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Anissa Alloula , Rima Mustafa , Daniel R McGowan , Bartłomiej W. Papież

In modern times, face recognition has become one of the key aspects of computer vision. There are at least two reasons for this trend; the first is the commercial and law enforcement applications, and the second is the availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Meftah Ur Rahman

Ensuring that AI-based facial recognition systems produce fair predictions and work equally well across all demographic groups is crucial. Earlier systems often exhibited demographic bias, particularly in gender and racial classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shweta Patel , Dakshina Ranjan Kisku

Machine learning technology has become ubiquitous, but, unfortunately, often exhibits bias. As a consequence, disparate stakeholders need to interact with and make informed decisions about using machine learning models in everyday systems.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Aimen Gaba , Zhanna Kaufman , Jason Chueng , Marie Shvakel , Kyle Wm. Hall , Yuriy Brun , Cindy Xiong Bearfield

Algorithmic systems such as search engines and information retrieval platforms significantly influence academic visibility and the dissemination of knowledge. Despite assumptions of neutrality, these systems can reproduce or reinforce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Stefanie Urchs , Veronika Thurner , Matthias Aßenmacher , Ludwig Bothmann , Christian Heumann , Stephanie Thiemichen

In recent years the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems for automated medical image analysis has gained enormous momentum. At the same time, a large body of work has shown that AI systems can systematically and unfairly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 María Agustina Ricci Lara , Candelaria Mosquera , Enzo Ferrante , Rodrigo Echeveste

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

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

There are pronounced differences in the extent to which industrial and academic AI labs use computing resources. We provide a data-driven survey of the role of the compute divide in shaping machine learning research. We show that a compute…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tamay Besiroglu , Sage Andrus Bergerson , Amelia Michael , Lennart Heim , Xueyun Luo , Neil Thompson