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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

The problem of bias persists in the deep learning community as models continue to provide disparate performance across different demographic subgroups. Therefore, several algorithms have been proposed to improve the fairness of deep models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Puspita Majumdar , Surbhi Mittal , Saheb Chhabra , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

State-of-the-art methods of attribute detection from faces almost always assume the presence of a full, unoccluded face. Hence, their performance degrades for partially visible and occluded faces. In this paper, we introduce SPLITFACE, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Upal Mahbub , Sayantan Sarkar , Rama Chellappa

Facial attribute analysis has received considerable attention when deep learning techniques made remarkable breakthroughs in this field over the past few years. Deep learning based facial attribute analysis consists of two basic sub-issues:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xin Zheng , Yanqing Guo , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Ran He

Building AI systems, including Facial Expression Recognition (FER), involves two critical aspects: data and model design. Both components significantly influence bias and fairness in FER tasks. Issues related to bias and fairness in FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini , Ali Pourramezan Fard , Mohammad H. Mahoor

In medical image diagnosis, fairness has become increasingly crucial. Without bias mitigation, deploying unfair AI would harm the interests of the underprivileged population and potentially tear society apart. Recent research addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ching-Hao Chiu , Yu-Jen Chen , Yawen Wu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho

Face recognition and verification are two computer vision tasks whose performances have advanced with the introduction of deep representations. However, ethical, legal, and technical challenges due to the sensitive nature of face data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alexandre Fournier-Montgieux , Michael Soumm , Adrian Popescu , Bertrand Luvison , Hervé Le Borgne

Detecting manipulated facial images and videos is an increasingly important topic in digital media forensics. As advanced face synthesis and manipulation methods are made available, new types of fake face representations are being created…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Hao Dang , Feng Liu , Joel Stehouwer , Xiaoming Liu , Anil Jain

Bias can be introduced to AI systems even from seemingly balanced sources, and AI facial beauty prediction is subject to ethnicity-based bias. This work sounds warnings about AI's role in shaping aesthetic norms while providing potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chandon Hamel , Mike Busch

Face recognition is a popular and well-studied area with wide applications in our society. However, racial bias had been proven to be inherent in most State Of The Art (SOTA) face recognition systems. Many investigative studies on face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Jawad Muhammad , Yunlong Wang , Caiyong Wang , Kunbo Zhang , Zhenan Sun

It is widely recognized that deep neural networks are sensitive to bias in the data. This means that during training these models are likely to learn spurious correlations between data and labels, resulting in limited generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Vito Paolo Pastore , Massimiliano Ciranni , Davide Marinelli , Francesca Odone , Vittorio Murino

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

Dense facial landmark detection is one of the key elements of face processing pipeline. It is used in virtual face reenactment, emotion recognition, driver status tracking, etc. Early approaches were suitable for facial landmark detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kostiantyn Khabarlak , Larysa Koriashkina

The problem of face alignment has been intensively studied in the past years. A large number of novel methods have been proposed and reported very good performance on benchmark dataset such as 300W. However, the differences in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Heng Yang , Xuhui Jia , Chen Change Loy , Peter Robinson

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has raised concerns about our ability to ensure their fairness, that is, how to avoid discrimination based on protected characteristics such as gender, race, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar , MaryBeth Defrance , Maarten Buyl , Tijl De Bie

Face image quality assessment (FIQA) attempts to improve face recognition (FR) performance by providing additional information about sample quality. Because FIQA methods attempt to estimate the utility of a sample for face recognition, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Žiga Babnik , Vitomir Štruc

AI based Face Recognition Systems (FRSs) are now widely distributed and deployed as MLaaS solutions all over the world, moreso since the COVID-19 pandemic for tasks ranging from validating individuals' faces while buying SIM cards to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Siddharth D Jaiswal , Ankit Kr. Verma , Animesh Mukherjee

Concern regarding the wide-spread use of fraudulent images/videos in social media necessitates precise detection of such fraud. The importance of facial expressions in communication is widely known, and adversarial attacks often focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Ghazal Mazaheri , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

In this study, we show that landmark detection or face alignment task is not a single and independent problem. Instead, its robustness can be greatly improved with auxiliary information. Specifically, we jointly optimize landmark detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zhanpeng Zhang , Ping Luo , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

As equality issues in the use of face recognition have garnered a lot of attention lately, greater efforts have been made to debiased deep learning models to improve fairness to minorities. However, there is still no clear definition nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Jiazhi Li , Wael Abd-Almageed