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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

The facial expression recognition is an ocular task that can be performed without human discomfort, is really a speedily growing on the computer research field. There are many applications and programs uses facial expression to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Abdelmajid Hassan Mansour , Gafar Zen Alabdeen Salh , Ali Shaif Alhalemi

Face recognition (FR) models are vulnerable to performance variations across demographic groups. The causes for these performance differences are unclear due to the highly complex deep learning-based structure of face recognition models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Marco Huber , Fadi Boutros , Naser Damer

In recent years, there have been significant advancements in computer vision which have led to the widespread deployment of image recognition and generation systems in socially relevant applications, from hiring to security screening.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Aditya Gulati , Bruno Lepri , Nuria Oliver

Facial recognition is changing the way we live in and interact with our society. Here we discuss the two sides of facial recognition, summarizing potential risks and current concerns. We introduce current policies and regulations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Yi Zeng , Enmeng Lu , Yinqian Sun , Ruochen Tian

Unconstrained face recognition is an active research area among computer vision and biometric researchers for many years now. Still the problem of face recognition in low quality photos has not been well-studied so far. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Iqbal Nouyed , Na Zhang

Bias in AI/ML-based systems is a ubiquitous problem and bias in AI/ML systems may negatively impact society. There are many reasons behind a system being biased. The bias can be due to the algorithm we are using for our problem or may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Vedant V. Kandge , Siddhant V. Kandge , Kajal Kumbharkar , Tanuja Pattanshetti

Automatic face recognition is an area with immense practical potential which includes a wide range of commercial and law enforcement applications. Hence it is unsurprising that it continues to be one of the most active research areas of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Reza Shoja Ghiass , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Hakim Bendada , Xavier Maldague

Face recognition system is one of the esteemed research areas in pattern recognition and computer vision as long as its major challenges. A few challenges in recognizing faces are blur, illumination, and varied expressions. Blur is natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Anubha Pearline. S , Hemalatha. M

Machine learned models exhibit bias, often because the datasets used to train them are biased. This presents a serious problem for the deployment of such technology, as the resulting models might perform poorly on populations that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Daniel McDuff , Roger Cheng , Ashish Kapoor

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

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

Over the past couple of years, the growing debate around automated facial recognition has reached a boiling point. As developers have continued to swiftly expand the scope of these kinds of technologies into an almost unbounded range of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-15 David Leslie

Much recent research has uncovered and discussed serious concerns of bias in facial analysis technologies, finding performance disparities between groups of people based on perceived gender, skin type, lighting condition, etc. These audits…

Societal bias towards certain communities is a big problem that affects a lot of machine learning systems. This work aims at addressing the racial bias present in many modern gender recognition systems. We learn race invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Komal K. Teru , Aishik Chakraborty

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

Do very high accuracies of deep networks suggest pride of effective AI or are deep networks prejudiced? Do they suffer from in-group biases (own-race-bias and own-age-bias), and mimic the human behavior? Is in-group specific information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Shruti Nagpal , Maneet Singh , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa

Law enforcement regularly faces the challenge of ranking suspects from their facial images. Deep face models aid this process but frequently introduce biases that disproportionately affect certain demographic segments. While bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Andrea Atzori , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

The capacity to recognize faces under varied poses is a fundamental human ability that presents a unique challenge for computer vision systems. Compared to frontal face recognition, which has been intensively studied and has gradually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Changxing Ding , Dacheng Tao

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