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For many computer vision applications, such as image description and human identification, recognizing the visual attributes of humans is an essential yet challenging problem. Its challenges originate from its multi-label nature, the large…

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Machine learning model bias can arise from dataset composition: correlated sensitive features can distort the downstream classification model's decision boundary and lead to performance differences along these features. Existing de-biasing…

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Data-driven decision making related to individuals has become increasingly pervasive, but the issue concerning the potential discrimination has been raised by recent studies. In response, researchers have made efforts to propose and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yongsu Ahn , Yu-Ru Lin

In recent years, one of the most popular techniques in the computer vision community has been the deep learning technique. As a data-driven technique, deep model requires enormous amounts of accurately labelled training data, which is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zihan Yang , Richard O. Sinnott , James Bailey , Qiuhong Ke

Bias analysis for synthetic face detection is bound to become a critical topic in the coming years. Although many detection models have been developed and several datasets have been released to reliably identify synthetic content, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Asmae Lamsaf , Lucia Cascone , Hugo Proença , João Neves

Model explanations such as saliency maps can improve user trust in AI by highlighting important features for a prediction. However, these become distorted and misleading when explaining predictions of images that are subject to systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Wencan Zhang , Mariella Dimiccoli , Brian Y. Lim

Mitigating biases in computer vision models is an essential step towards the trustworthiness of artificial intelligence models. Existing bias mitigation methods focus on a small set of predefined biases, limiting their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Christos Diou

Addressing biases in computer vision models is crucial for real-world AI deployments. However, mitigating visual biases is challenging due to their unexplainable nature, often identified indirectly through visualization or sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Younghyun Kim , Sangwoo Mo , Minkyu Kim , Kyungmin Lee , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

The visual analytics community has long aimed to understand users better and assist them in their analytic endeavors. As a result, numerous conceptual models of visual analytics aim to formalize common workflows, techniques, and goals…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Shayan Monadjemi , Mengtian Guo , David Gotz , Roman Garnett , Alvitta Ottley

Image classification is an essential part of computer vision which assigns a given input image to a specific category based on the similarity evaluation within given criteria. While promising classifiers can be obtained through deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

Facial analysis models are increasingly applied in real-world applications that have significant impact on peoples' lives. However, as literature has shown, models that automatically classify facial attributes might exhibit algorithmic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Camila Kolling , Victor Araujo , Adriano Veloso , Soraia Raupp Musse

Fairness in machine learning seeks to mitigate model bias against individuals based on sensitive features such as sex or age, often caused by an uneven representation of the population in the training data due to selection bias. Notably,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yasin I. Tepeli , Joana P. Gonçalves

Data cleaning is often framed as a technical preprocessing step, yet in practice it relies heavily on human judgment. We report results from a controlled survey study in which participants performed error detection, data repair and…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Hazim AbdElazim , Shadman Islam , Mostafa Milani

Deep neural networks often make decisions based on the spurious correlations inherent in the dataset, failing to generalize in an unbiased data distribution. Although previous approaches pre-define the type of dataset bias to prevent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Eungyeup Kim , Jihyeon Lee , Jaegul Choo

Recent advancements in pre-trained large-scale language-image models have ushered in a new era of visual comprehension, offering a significant leap forward. These breakthroughs have proven particularly instrumental in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yiran Li , Junpeng Wang , Prince Aboagye , Michael Yeh , Yan Zheng , Liang Wang , Wei Zhang , Kwan-Liu Ma

Humans often resolve visual uncertainty by comparing an image with relevant examples, but ViTs lack the ability to identify which examples would improve their predictions. We present Task-Aligned Context Selection (TACS), a framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jingyu Guo , Emir Konuk , Fredrik Strand , Christos Matsoukas , Kevin Smith

Machine learning systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, yet they remain vulnerable to bias systematic disparities that disproportionately impact specific demographic groups. Traditional bias detection methods often depend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Chirudeep Tupakula , Rittika Shamsuddin

Deep learning model effectiveness in classification tasks is often challenged by the quality and quantity of training data whenever they are affected by strong spurious correlations between specific attributes and target labels. This…

Recently, deep learning has been advancing the state of the art in artificial intelligence to a new level, and humans rely on artificial intelligence techniques more than ever. However, even with such unprecedented advancements, the lack of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jaegul Choo , Shixia Liu

To safely deploy deep learning-based computer vision models for computer-aided detection and diagnosis, we must ensure that they are robust and reliable. Towards that goal, algorithmic auditing has received substantial attention. To guide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Mitchell Pavlak , Nathan Drenkow , Nicholas Petrick , Mohammad Mehdi Farhangi , Mathias Unberath