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As machine learning algorithms have been widely deployed across applications, many concerns have been raised over the fairness of their predictions, especially in high stakes settings (such as facial recognition and medical imaging). To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Valeriia Cherepanova , Vedant Nanda , Micah Goldblum , John P. Dickerson , Tom Goldstein

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

The proliferation of automated face recognition in the commercial and government sectors has caused significant privacy concerns for individuals. One approach to address these privacy concerns is to employ evasion attacks against the metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Harrison Rosenberg , Brian Tang , Kassem Fawaz , Somesh Jha

We propose an experimental method for measuring bias in face recognition systems. Existing methods to measure bias depend on benchmark datasets that are collected in the wild and annotated for protected (e.g., race, gender) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Hao Liang , Pietro Perona , Guha Balakrishnan

Face recognition algorithms perform more accurately than humans in some cases, though humans and machines both show race-based accuracy differences. As algorithms continue to improve, it is important to continually assess their race bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Geraldine Jeckeln , Selin Yavuzcan , Kate A. Marquis , Prajay Sandipkumar Mehta , Amy N. Yates , P. Jonathon Phillips , Alice J. O'Toole

Quality assessment algorithms measure the quality of a captured biometric sample. Since the sample quality strongly affects the recognition performance of a biometric system, it is essential to only process samples of sufficient quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 André Dörsch , Torsten Schlett , Peter Munch , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch

Much recent research has uncovered and discussed serious concerns of bias in facial analysis technologies, finding performance disparities between groups of people based on perceived gender, skin type, lighting condition, etc. These audits…

Quality scores provide a measure to evaluate the utility of biometric samples for biometric recognition. Biometric recognition systems require high-quality samples to achieve optimal performance. This paper focuses on face images and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Biying Fu , Cong Chen , Olaf Henniger , Naser Damer

Facial analysis systems have been deployed by large companies and critiqued by scholars and activists for the past decade. Many existing algorithmic audits examine the performance of these systems on later stage elements of facial analysis…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Samuel Dooley , George Z. Wei , Tom Goldstein , John P. Dickerson

Biases inherent in both data and algorithms make the fairness of widespread machine learning (ML)-based decision-making systems less than optimal. To improve the trustfulness of such ML decision systems, it is crucial to be aware of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Biying Fu , Naser Damer

The human voice conveys unique characteristics of an individual, making voice biometrics a key technology for verifying identities in various industries. Despite the impressive progress of speaker recognition systems in terms of accuracy, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Gianni Fenu , Giacomo Medda , Mirko Marras , Giacomo Meloni

Computers are increasingly used to make decisions that have significant impact in people's lives. Often, these predictions can affect different population subgroups disproportionately. As a result, the issue of fairness has received much…

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

AI-generated faces have enriched human life, such as entertainment, education, and art. However, they also pose misuse risks. Therefore, detecting AI-generated faces becomes crucial, yet current detectors show biased performance across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Li Lin , Santosh , Mingyang Wu , Xin Wang , Shu Hu

Current face recognition systems achieve high progress on several benchmark tests. Despite this progress, recent works showed that these systems are strongly biased against demographic sub-groups. Consequently, an easily integrable solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

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

Deep learning-based person identification and verification systems have remarkably improved in terms of accuracy in recent years; however, such systems, including widely popular cloud-based solutions, have been found to exhibit significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Christos Diou

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

Automated gender classification has important applications in many domains, such as demographic research, law enforcement, online advertising, as well as human-computer interaction. Recent research has questioned the fairness of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Anoop Krishnan , Ali Almadan , Ajita Rattani

Face recognition algorithms have demonstrated very high recognition performance, suggesting suitability for real world applications. Despite the enhanced accuracies, robustness of these algorithms against attacks and bias has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Richa Singh , Akshay Agarwal , Maneet Singh , Shruti Nagpal , Mayank Vatsa