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There are not one but two dimensions of bias that can be revealed through the study of large AI models: not only bias in training data or the products of an AI, but also bias in society, such as disparity in employment or health outcomes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Marinus Ferreira

Diffusion Models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with unprecedented image generation capability. These models are widely used for data augmentation and creative applications. However, DMs reflect the biases present in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rishubh Parihar , Abhijnya Bhat , Abhipsa Basu , Saswat Mallick , Jogendra Nath Kundu , R. Venkatesh Babu

Predictive models often reinforce biases which were originally embedded in their training data, through skewed decisions. In such cases, mitigation methods are critical to ensure that, regardless of the prevailing disparities, model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-15 Ricardo Inácio , Zafeiris Kokkinogenis , Vitor Cerqueira , Carlos Soares

AI systems have been shown to produce unfair results for certain subgroups of population, highlighting the need to understand bias on certain sensitive attributes. Current research often falls short, primarily focusing on the subgroups…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Gezheng Xu , Qi Chen , Charles Ling , Boyu Wang , Changjian Shui

Generative models are increasingly used to augment medical imaging datasets for fairer AI. Yet a key assumption often goes unexamined: that generators themselves produce equally high-quality images across demographic groups. Models trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mahmoud Ibrahim , Bart Elen , Chang Sun , Gokhan Ertaylan , Michel Dumontier

Generative models are nowadays widely used to generate graphical content used for multiple purposes, e.g. web, art, advertisement. However, it has been shown that the images generated by these models could reinforce societal biases already…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Tosin Fadahunsi , Giordano d'Aloisio , Antinisca Di Marco , Federica Sarro

Large-scale facial datasets like CelebA are widely used in computer vision, yet the cultural biases embedded in their labels remain underexplored. Fairness research has distinguished representational from allocational harms, but audits of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Sieun Park , Yuanmo He

Despite being widely used, face recognition models suffer from bias: the probability of a false positive (incorrect face match) strongly depends on sensitive attributes such as the ethnicity of the face. As a result, these models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Tiago Salvador , Stephanie Cairns , Vikram Voleti , Noah Marshall , Adam Oberman

Facial attribute editing aims to modify target attributes while preserving attribute-irrelevant content and overall image fidelity. Existing GAN-based methods provide favorable controllability, but often suffer from weak alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Wenmin Huang , Weiqi Luo , Xiaochun Cao , Jiwu Huang

Recent advances in generative adversarial networks have shown that it is possible to generate high-resolution and hyperrealistic images. However, the images produced by GANs are only as fair and representative as the datasets on which they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Cemre Karakas , Alara Dirik , Eylul Yalcinkaya , Pinar Yanardag

Text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality and diverse images from natural language prompts. However, recent studies reveal that these models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zihao Fu , Ryan Brown , Shun Shao , Kai Rawal , Eoin Delaney , Chris Russell

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is a powerful family of models that learn an underlying distribution to generate synthetic data. Many existing studies of GANs focus on improving the realness of the generated image data for visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Si-An Chen , Chun-Liang Li , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Impact due to demographic factors such as age, sex, race, etc., has been studied extensively in automated face recognition systems. However, the impact of \textit{digitally modified} demographic and facial attributes on face recognition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Sudipta Banerjee , Aditi Aggarwal , Arun Ross

Most machine learning methods are known to capture and exploit biases of the training data. While some biases are beneficial for learning, others are harmful. Specifically, image captioning models tend to exaggerate biases present in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Kaylee Burns , Lisa Anne Hendricks , Kate Saenko , Trevor Darrell , Anna Rohrbach

The interest of the deep learning community in image synthesis has grown massively in recent years. Nowadays, deep generative methods, and especially Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), are leading to state-of-the-art performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Fairness is a crucial concern for generative models, which not only reflect but can also amplify societal and cultural biases. Existing fairness notions for generative models are largely adapted from classification and focus on balancing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Alexandre Verine , Rafael Pinot , Florian Le Bronnec

Automatic Gender Recognition (AGR) systems are an increasingly widespread application in the Machine Learning (ML) landscape. While these systems are typically understood as detecting gender, they often classify datapoints based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Camilla Quaresmini , Giacomo Zanotti

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

We introduce GANDiff FR, the first synthetic framework that precisely controls demographic and environmental factors to measure, explain, and reduce bias with reproducible rigor. GANDiff FR unifies StyleGAN3-based identity-preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Md Asgor Hossain Reaj , Rajan Das Gupta , Md Yeasin Rahat , Nafiz Fahad , Md Jawadul Hasan , Tze Hui Liew

Image forensics research has recently witnessed a lot of advancements towards developing computational models capable of accurately detecting natural images captured by cameras and GAN generated images. However, it is also important to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Manjary P. Gangan , Anoop Kadan , Lajish V L