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Face recognition is known to exhibit bias - subjects in a certain demographic group can be better recognized than other groups. This work aims to learn a fair face representation, where faces of every group could be more equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Sixue Gong , Xiaoming Liu , Anil K. Jain

To detect bias in face recognition networks, it can be useful to probe a network under test using samples in which only specific attributes vary in some controlled way. However, capturing a sufficiently large dataset with specific control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Nataniel Ruiz , Barry-John Theobald , Anurag Ranjan , Ahmed Hussein Abdelaziz , Nicholas Apostoloff

Recent advancements in diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models have enabled the generation of high-quality and photorealistic images from text. However, they often exhibit societal biases related to gender, race, and socioeconomic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jeonghoon Park , Juyoung Lee , Chaeyeon Chung , Jaeseong Lee , Jaegul Choo , Jindong Gu

In this study, I investigate how generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems reproduce and reinforce societal biases, with a specific focus on the representation of women, Black individuals, age groups, and people with visible…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ayoob Sadeghiani

Generating high fidelity identity-preserving faces with different facial attributes has a wide range of applications. Although a number of generative models have been developed to tackle this problem, there is still much room for further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Dan Ma , Bin Liu , Zhao Kang , Jiayu Zhou , Jianke Zhu , Zenglin Xu

Advances in generative models have led to significant interest in image synthesis, demonstrating the ability to generate high-quality images for a diverse range of text prompts. Despite this progress, most studies ignore the presence of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Nila Masrourisaadat , Nazanin Sedaghatkish , Fatemeh Sarshartehrani , Edward A. Fox

Recent studies have shown remarkable success in face image generations. However, most of the existing methods only generate face images from random noise, and cannot generate face images according to the specific attributes. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Zheng Yuan , Jie Zhang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

In this paper, we address the limitations of existing text-to-image diffusion models in generating demographically fair results when given human-related descriptions. These models often struggle to disentangle the target language context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jia Li , Lijie Hu , Jingfeng Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Hua Zhang , Di Wang

Recursive prompting with large language models enables scalable synthetic dataset generation but introduces the risk of bias amplification. We investigate gender bias dynamics across three generations of recursive text generation using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ashish Kattamuri , Arpita Vats , Harshwardhan Fartale , Rahul Raja , Akshata Kishore Moharir , Ishita Prasad

The increasing amount of applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has led researchers to study the social impact of these technologies and evaluate their fairness. Unfortunately, current fairness metrics are hard to apply in multi-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar

Facial analysis models are increasingly used in applications that have serious impacts on people's lives, ranging from authentication to surveillance tracking. It is therefore critical to develop techniques that can reveal unintended biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Remi Denton , Ben Hutchinson , Margaret Mitchell , Timnit Gebru , Andrew Zaldivar

Our society is plagued by several biases, including racial biases, caste biases, and gender bias. As a matter of fact, several years ago, most of these notions were unheard of. These biases passed through generations along with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Lavisha Aggarwal , Shruti Bhargava

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

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

Published research highlights the presence of demographic bias in automated facial attribute classification algorithms, particularly impacting women and individuals with darker skin tones. Existing bias mitigation techniques typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ayesha Manzoor , Ajita Rattani

This work tackles the issue of fairness in the context of generative procedures, such as image super-resolution, which entail different definitions from the standard classification setting. Moreover, while traditional group fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Ajil Jalal , Sushrut Karmalkar , Jessica Hoffmann , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Eric Price

As the deployment of automated face recognition (FR) systems proliferates, bias in these systems is not just an academic question, but a matter of public concern. Media portrayals often center imbalance as the main source of bias, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Valeriia Cherepanova , Steven Reich , Samuel Dooley , Hossein Souri , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Facial Attribute Classification (FAC) holds substantial promise in widespread applications. However, FAC models trained by traditional methodologies can be unfair by exhibiting accuracy inconsistencies across varied data subpopulations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Fengda Zhang , Qianpei He , Kun Kuang , Jiashuo Liu , Long Chen , Chao Wu , Jun Xiao , Hanwang Zhang

Automated computer vision systems have been applied in many domains including security, law enforcement, and personal devices, but recent reports suggest that these systems may produce biased results, discriminating against people in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jungseock Joo , Kimmo Kärkkäinen

AI-enhanced personality assessments are increasingly shaping hiring decisions, using affective computing to predict traits from the Big Five (OCEAN) model. However, integrating AI into these assessments raises ethical concerns, especially…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Dena F. Mujtaba , Nihar R. Mahapatra