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Image clustering is a very useful technique that is widely applied to various areas, including remote sensing. Recently, visual representations by self-supervised learning have greatly improved the performance of image clustering. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Qinglin Li , Guoping Qiu

Continual semantic segmentation aims to learn new classes while maintaining the information from the previous classes. Although prior studies have shown impressive progress in recent years, the fairness concern in the continual semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Thanh-Dat Truong , Hoang-Quan Nguyen , Bhiksha Raj , Khoa Luu

Graph clustering, or community detection, is the task of identifying groups of closely related objects in a large network. In this paper we introduce a new community-detection framework called LambdaCC that is based on a specially weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Nate Veldt , David Gleich , Anthony Wirth

We study the canonical fair clustering problem where each cluster is constrained to have close to population-level representation of each group. Despite significant attention, the salient issue of having incomplete knowledge about the group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Sharmila Duppala , Juan Luque , John P. Dickerson , Seyed A. Esmaeili

Recently, many unsupervised deep learning methods have been proposed to learn clustering with unlabelled data. By introducing data augmentation, most of the latest methods look into deep clustering from the perspective that the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Huasong Zhong , Chong Chen , Zhongming Jin , Xian-Sheng Hua

Ensuring fairness has emerged as one of the primary concerns in AI and its related algorithms. Over time, the field of machine learning fairness has evolved to address these issues. This paper provides an extensive overview of this field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Quan Zhou

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

Fairness-aware learning aims to mitigate discrimination against specific protected social groups (e.g., those categorized by gender, ethnicity, age) while minimizing predictive performance loss. Despite efforts to improve fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Kewen Peng , Yicheng Yang , Hao Zhuo

How to find a natural grouping of a large real data set? Clustering requires a balance between abstraction and representation. To identify clusters, we need to abstract from superfluous details of individual objects. But we also need a rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Claudia Plant , Lena G. M. Bauer , Christian Böhm

Disaggregated performance metrics across demographic groups are a hallmark of fairness assessments in computer vision. These metrics successfully incentivized performance improvements on person-centric tasks such as face analysis and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Melissa Hall , Bobbie Chern , Laura Gustafson , Denisse Ventura , Harshad Kulkarni , Candace Ross , Nicolas Usunier

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

Machine learning models have demonstrated promising performance in many areas. However, the concerns that they can be biased against specific demographic groups hinder their adoption in high-stake applications. Thus, it is essential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Canyu Chen , Yueqing Liang , Xiongxiao Xu , Shangyu Xie , Ashish Kundu , Ali Payani , Yuan Hong , Kai Shu

In this paper, we propose an innovative approach to thoroughly explore dataset features that introduce bias in downstream machine-learning tasks. Depending on the data format, we use different techniques to map instances into a similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Samira Maghool , Paolo Ceravolo

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

In supervised deep learning, learning good representations for remote--sensing images (RSI) relies on manual annotations. However, in the area of remote sensing, it is hard to obtain huge amounts of labeled data. Recently, self--supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Qinglin Li , Bin Li , Jonathan M Garibaldi , Guoping Qiu

Existing deepfake detection methods often exhibit bias, lack transparency, and fail to capture temporal information, leading to biased decisions and unreliable results across different demographic groups. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Akihito Yoshii , Ryosuke Sonoda , Ramya Srinivasan

In today's society, AI systems are increasingly used to make critical decisions such as credit scoring and patient triage. However, great convenience brought by AI systems comes with troubling prevalence of bias against underrepresented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yan Zhou , Murat Kantarcioglu , Chris Clifton

Recent work has explored how to train machine learning models which do not discriminate against any subgroup of the population as determined by sensitive attributes such as gender or race. To avoid disparate treatment, sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-06 Niki Kilbertus , Adrià Gascón , Matt J. Kusner , Michael Veale , Krishna P. Gummadi , Adrian Weller

Fairness is a critical component of Trustworthy AI. In this paper, we focus on Machine Learning (ML) and the performance of model predictions when dealing with skin color. Unlike other sensitive attributes, the nature of skin color differs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kuniko Paxton , Koorosh Aslansefat , Dhavalkumar Thakker , Yiannis Papadopoulos

The prevalence of algorithmic bias in Machine Learning (ML)-driven approaches has inspired growing research on measuring and mitigating bias in the ML domain. Accordingly, prior research studied how to measure fairness in regression which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Abdalwahab Almajed , Maryam Tabar , Peyman Najafirad