English
Related papers

Related papers: FACET: Fairness in Computer Vision Evaluation Benc…

200 papers

Recent studies have demonstrated that deep learning models can discriminate based on protected classes like race and gender. In this work, we evaluate bias present in deepfake datasets and detection models across protected subgroups. Using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Loc Trinh , Yan Liu

Current face recognition systems achieve high progress on several benchmark tests. Despite this progress, recent works showed that these systems are strongly biased against demographic sub-groups. Consequently, an easily integrable solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Demographic bias is one of the major challenges for face recognition systems. The majority of existing studies on demographic biases are heavily dependent on specific demographic groups or demographic classifier, making it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Tetsushi Ohki , Yuya Sato , Masakatsu Nishigaki , Koichi Ito

Computer vision-based methods have valuable use cases in precision medicine, and recognizing facial phenotypes of genetic disorders is one of them. Many genetic disorders are known to affect faces' visual appearance and geometry. Automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Ömer Sümer , Fabio Hellmann , Alexander Hustinx , Tzung-Chien Hsieh , Elisabeth André , Peter Krawitz

Previous generations of face recognition algorithms differ in accuracy for images of different races (race bias). Here, we present the possible underlying factors (data-driven and scenario modeling) and methodological considerations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Jacqueline G. Cavazos , P. Jonathon Phillips , Carlos D. Castillo , Alice J. O'Toole

The advent of foundation models (FMs) in healthcare offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance medical diagnostics through automated classification and segmentation tasks. However, these models also raise significant concerns about their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ruinan Jin , Zikang Xu , Yuan Zhong , Qiongsong Yao , Qi Dou , S. Kevin Zhou , Xiaoxiao Li

Face recognition in images is an active area of interest among the computer vision researchers. However, recognizing human face in an unconstrained environment, is a relatively less-explored area of research. Multiple face recognition in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee

Evaluation is essential in image fusion research, yet most existing metrics are directly borrowed from other vision tasks without proper adaptation. These traditional metrics, often based on complex image transformations, not only fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chunyang Cheng , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tao Zhou , Hui Li , Zhangyong Tang , Josef Kittler

We study self-supervised video representation learning, which is a challenging task due to 1) lack of labels for explicit supervision; 2) unstructured and noisy visual information. Existing methods mainly use contrastive loss with video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Deng Huang , Wenhao Wu , Weiwen Hu , Xu Liu , Dongliang He , Zhihua Wu , Xiangmiao Wu , Mingkui Tan , Errui Ding

Algorithmic fairness has conventionally adopted the mathematically convenient perspective of racial color-blindness (i.e., difference unaware treatment). However, we contend that in a range of important settings, group difference awareness…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Angelina Wang , Michelle Phan , Daniel E. Ho , Sanmi Koyejo

Automated glaucoma detection is critical for preventing irreversible vision loss and reducing the burden on healthcare systems. However, ensuring fairness across diverse patient populations remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mohamed Elhabebe , Ayman El-Baz , Qing Liu

As facial recognition systems are deployed more widely, scholars and activists have studied their biases and harms. Audits are commonly used to accomplish this and compare the algorithmic facial recognition systems' performance against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Samuel Dooley , George Z. Wei , Tom Goldstein , John P. Dickerson

Racial bias in medicine, such as in dermatology, presents significant ethical and clinical challenges. This is likely to happen because there is a significant underrepresentation of darker skin tones in training datasets for machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Miguel López-Pérez , Søren Hauberg , Aasa Feragen

Auditing involves verifying the proper implementation of a given policy. As such, auditing is essential for ensuring compliance with the principles of fairness, equity, and transparency mandated by the European Union's AI Act. Moreover,…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-04 Valentin Lafargue , Emmanuelle Claeys , Jean-Michel Loubes

Machine learning models are extensively being used to make decisions that have a significant impact on human life. These models are trained over historical data that may contain information about sensitive attributes such as race, sex,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ramanujam Madhavan , Mohit Wadhwa

Existing visual reasoning benchmarks predominantly rely on natural language prompts, evaluate narrow reasoning modalities, or depend on subjective scoring procedures such as LLM-as-judge. We introduce the TACIT Benchmark, a programmatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Daniel Nobrega Medeiros

Face parsing is a fundamental task in computer vision, enabling applications such as identity verification, facial editing, and controllable image synthesis. However, existing face parsing models often lack fairness and robustness, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Sophia J. Abraham , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Walter J. Scheirer

Training models with robust group fairness properties is crucial in ethically sensitive application areas such as medical diagnosis. Despite the growing body of work aiming to minimise demographic bias in AI, this problem remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Raman Dutt , Ondrej Bohdal , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Timothy Hospedales

Face recognition is a long standing challenge in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to create systems that accurately detect, recognize, verify, and understand human faces. There are significant technical hurdles in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Michele Merler , Nalini Ratha , Rogerio S. Feris , John R. Smith

The deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is rapidly expanding to numerous cities. At the heart of AVs, the object detection module assumes a paramount role, directly influencing all downstream decision-making tasks by considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Bimsara Pathiraja , Caleb Liu , Ransalu Senanayake