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Although face recognition has made impressive progress in recent years, we ignore the racial bias of the recognition system when we pursue a high level of accuracy. Previous work found that for different races, face recognition networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Linzhi Huang , Mei Wang , Jiahao Liang , Weihong Deng , Hongzhi Shi , Dongchao Wen , Yingjie Zhang , Jian Zhao

Numerous studies have shown that existing Face Recognition Systems (FRS), including commercial ones, often exhibit biases toward certain ethnicities due to under-represented data. In this work, we explore ethnicity alteration and skin tone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Praveen Kumar Chandaliya , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Zahid Akhtar , Christoph Busch

Spectral imaging has recently gained traction for face recognition in biometric systems. We investigate the merits of spectral imaging for face recognition and the current challenges that hamper the widespread deployment of spectral sensors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Rumaisah Munir , Rizwan Ahmed Khan

This paper investigates the feasibility of using the periocular region for expression recognition. Most works have tried to solve this by analyzing the whole face. Periocular is the facial region in the immediate vicinity of the eye. It has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Josef Bigun , Cristofer Englund

Masked Face Recognition (MFR) is an increasingly important area in biometric recognition technologies, especially with the widespread use of masks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This development has created new challenges for facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Haitham Abdul Amir , Zainab N. Nemer

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

Facial filters are now commonplace for social media users around the world. Previous work has demonstrated that facial filters can negatively impact automated face recognition performance. However, these studies focus on small numbers of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Kagan Ozturk , Louisa Conwill , Jacob Gutierrez , Kevin Bowyer , Walter J. Scheirer

A common approach in neuroscience is to study neural representations as a means to understand a system -- increasingly, by relating the neural representations to the internal representations learned by computational models. However, a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-14 Andrew Kyle Lampinen , Stephanie C. Y. Chan , Yuxuan Li , Katherine Hermann

Biased datasets are ubiquitous and present a challenge for machine learning. For a number of categories on a dataset that are equally important but some are sparse and others are common, the learning algorithms will favor the ones with more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Glauco Amigo , Pablo Rivas Perea , Robert J. Marks

In the beginning stage, face verification is done using easy method of geometric algorithm models, but the verification route has now developed into a scientific progress of complicated geometric representation and matching process. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-03 V. Karthikeyan , Manjupriya , C. K. Chithra , M. Divya

Whilst face recognition applications are becoming increasingly prevalent within our daily lives, leading approaches in the field still suffer from performance bias to the detriment of some racial profiles within society. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Seyma Yucer , Samet Akçay , Noura Al-Moubayed , Toby P. Breckon

Recognizing, assessing, countering, and mitigating the biases of different nature from heterogeneous sources is a critical problem in designing a cognitive Decision Support System (DSS). An example of such a system is a cognitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Kenneth Lai , Helder C. R. Oliveira , Ming Hou , Svetlana N. Yanushkevich , Vlad Shmerko

Despite recent advances in face recognition, robust performance remains challenging under large variations in age, pose, and occlusion. A common strategy to address these issues is to guide representation learning with auxiliary supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ana Dias , João Ribeiro Pinto , Hugo Proença , João C. Neves

In an ideal world, deployed machine learning models will enhance our society. We hope that those models will provide unbiased and ethical decisions that will benefit everyone. However, this is not always the case; issues arise during the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Jasmine DeHart , Chenguang Xu , Lisa Egede , Christan Grant

Automated gender classification has important applications in many domains, such as demographic research, law enforcement, online advertising, as well as human-computer interaction. Recent research has questioned the fairness of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Anoop Krishnan , Ali Almadan , Ajita Rattani

We demonstrate an approach to face attribute detection that retains or improves attribute detection accuracy across gender and race subgroups by learning demographic information prior to learning the attribute detection task. The system,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Hee Jung Ryu , Hartwig Adam , Margaret Mitchell

Face recognition is a core task in computer vision designed to identify and authenticate individuals by analyzing facial patterns and features. This field intersects with artificial intelligence image processing and machine learning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Nhan T. Luu

Ample evidence suggests that face processing in human and non-human primates is performed differently compared with other objects. Converging reports, both physiologically and psychophysically, indicate that faces are processed in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-01 Amirhossein Farzmahdi , Karim Rajaei , Masoud Ghodrati , Reza Ebrahimpour , Seyed-Mahdi Khaligh-Razavi

Gender is an important demographic attribute of people. This paper provides a survey of human gender recognition in computer vision. A review of approaches exploiting information from face and whole body (either from a still image or gait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Choon Boon Ng , Yong Haur Tay , Bok Min Goi

In recent years, media reports have called out bias and racism in face recognition technology. We review experimental results exploring several speculated causes for asymmetric cross-demographic performance. We consider accuracy differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Gabriella Pangelinan , K. S. Krishnapriya , Vitor Albiero , Grace Bezold , Kai Zhang , Kushal Vangara , Michael C. King , Kevin W. Bowyer