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Published studies have suggested the bias of automated face-based gender classification algorithms across gender-race groups. Specifically, unequal accuracy rates were obtained for women and dark-skinned people. To mitigate the bias of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Sreeraj Ramachandran , Ajita Rattani

A fundamental tenet of pattern recognition is that overlap between training and testing sets causes an optimistic accuracy estimate. Deep CNNs for face recognition are trained for N-way classification of the identities in the training set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Haiyu Wu , Sicong Tian , Jacob Gutierrez , Aman Bhatta , Kağan Öztürk , Kevin W. Bowyer

This paper proposes a data driven model to predict the performance of a face recognition system based on image quality features. We model the relationship between image quality features (e.g. pose, illumination, etc.) and recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Abhishek Dutta , Raymond Veldhuis , Luuk Spreeuwers

Heterogeneous face recognition (HFR) refers to matching face imagery across different domains. It has received much interest from the research community as a result of its profound implications in law enforcement. A wide variety of new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Shuxin Ouyang , Timothy Hospedales , Yi-Zhe Song , Xueming Li

Demographic attributes such as age, sex, and race can be predicted from medical images, raising concerns about bias in clinical AI systems. In brain MRI, this signal may arise from anatomical variation, acquisition-dependent contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mehmet Yigit Avci , Akshit Achara , Andrew King , Jorge Cardoso

Demographic bias in text-to-image (T2I) generation is well studied, yet demographic-conditioned failures in instruction-guided image-to-image (I2I) editing remain underexplored. We examine whether identical edit instructions yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Huichan Seo , Minki Hong , Sieun Choi , Jihie Kim , Jean Oh

The ethical, social and legal issues surrounding facial analysis technologies have been widely debated in recent years. Key critics have argued that these technologies can perpetuate bias and discrimination, particularly against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Marco Rondina , Fabiana Vinci , Antonio Vetrò , Juan Carlos De Martin

Synthetic data has emerged as a promising alternative for training face recognition (FR) models, offering advantages in scalability, privacy compliance, and potential for bias mitigation. However, critical questions remain on whether both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Pavel Korshunov , Ketan Kotwal , Christophe Ecabert , Vidit Vidit , Amir Mohammadi , Sebastien Marcel

Over the past decades the machine and deep learning community has celebrated great achievements in challenging tasks such as image classification. The deep architecture of artificial neural networks together with the plenitude of available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jessica Deuschel , Bettina Finzel , Ines Rieger

Face Recognition (FR) is increasingly used in critical verification decisions and thus, there is a need for assessing the trustworthiness of such decisions. The confidence of a decision is often based on the overall performance of the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Marco Huber , Philipp Terhörst , Florian Kirchbuchner , Naser Damer , Arjan Kuijper

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for matching faces with temporal variations caused due to age progression. The proposed generative adversarial network algorithm is a unified framework that combines facial age estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Daksha Yadav , Naman Kohli , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh , Afzel Noore

Face recognition from image or video is a popular topic in biometrics research. Many public places usually have surveillance cameras for video capture and these cameras have their significant value for security purpose. It is widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Faizan Ahmad , Aaima Najam , Zeeshan Ahmed

Computer vision models have known performance disparities across attributes such as gender and skin tone. This means during tasks such as classification and detection, model performance differs for certain classes based on the demographics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Laura Gustafson , Chloe Rolland , Nikhila Ravi , Quentin Duval , Aaron Adcock , Cheng-Yang Fu , Melissa Hall , Candace Ross

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

In this paper we have tried to compare the various face recognition models against their classical problems. We look at the methods followed by these approaches and evaluate to what extent they are able to solve the problems. All methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Dharini S. , Guru Prasad M. , Hari haran. V. , Kiran Tej J. L. , Kunal Ghosh

Face recognition has the perception of a solved problem, however when tested at the million-scale exhibits dramatic variation in accuracies across the different algorithms. Are the algorithms very different? Is access to good/big training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Aaron Nech , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

We employ the face recognition technology developed in house at face.com to a well accepted benchmark and show that without any tuning we are able to considerably surpass state of the art results. Much of the improvement is concentrated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf

Biometry has proved its capability in terms of recognition accuracy. Now, it is widely used for automated border control with the biometric passport, to unlock a smartphone or a computer with a fingerprint or a face recognition algorithm.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Gaëlle Candel

Computer vision is widely deployed, has highly visible, society altering applications, and documented problems with bias and representation. Datasets are critical for benchmarking progress in fair computer vision, and often employ broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Zaid Khan , Yun Fu

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