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Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) refers to matching cross-domain faces and plays a crucial role in public security. Nevertheless, HFR is confronted with challenges from large domain discrepancy and insufficient heterogeneous data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Chaoyou Fu , Xiang Wu , Yibo Hu , Huaibo Huang , Ran He

Face recognition has been used more and more in real world applications in recent years. However, when the skin color bias is coupled with intra-personal variations like harsh illumination, the face recognition task is more likely to fail,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Hongliu Cao , Minh Nhat Do , Alexis Ravanel , Eoin Thomas

In recent years, significant progress has been made in face recognition, which can be partially attributed to the availability of large-scale labeled face datasets. However, since the faces in these datasets usually contain limited degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yichun Shi , Anil K. Jain

The ImageNet dataset ushered in a flood of academic and industry interest in deep learning for computer vision applications. Despite its significant impact, there has not been a comprehensive investigation into the demographic attributes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Chris Dulhanty , Alexander Wong

The development of facial biometric systems has contributed greatly to the development of the computer vision field. Nowadays, there's always a need to develop a multimodal system that combines multiple biometric traits in an efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Mahmoud Rabea , Hanya Ahmed , Sohaila Mahmoud , Nourhan Sayed

Reliable facial expression learning (FEL) involves the effective learning of distinctive facial expression characteristics for more reliable, unbiased and accurate predictions in real-life settings. However, current systems struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Taki Hasan Rafi , Raima Islam , Karlo Serbetar , Dong Kyu Chae

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

A biased dataset is a dataset that generally has attributes with an uneven class distribution. These biases have the tendency to propagate to the models that train on them, often leading to a poor performance in the minority class. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Athiya Deviyani

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

Bias in computer vision systems can perpetuate or even amplify discrimination against certain populations. Considering that bias is often introduced by biased visual datasets, many recent research efforts focus on training fair models using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Christos Diou

Face Recognition is a common problem in Machine Learning. This technology has already been widely used in our lives. For example, Facebook can automatically tag people's faces in images, and also some mobile devices use face recognition to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Fares Jalled

Face manipulation techniques develop rapidly and arouse widespread public concerns. Despite that vanilla convolutional neural networks achieve acceptable performance, they suffer from the overfitting issue. To relieve this issue, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yunsheng Ni , Depu Meng , Changqian Yu , Chengbin Quan , Dongchun Ren , Youjian Zhao

Large-scale ASR models have achieved remarkable gains in accuracy and robustness. However, fairness issues remain largely unaddressed despite their critical importance in real-world applications. In this work, we introduce FairASR, a system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Jongsuk Kim , Jaemyung Yu , Minchan Kwon , Junmo Kim

Face quality assessment aims at estimating the utility of a face image for the purpose of recognition. It is a key factor to achieve high face recognition performances. Currently, the high performance of these face recognition systems come…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Philipp Terhörst , Jan Niklas Kolf , Naser Damer , Florian Kirchbuchner , Arjan Kuijper

Training a fine-grained image recognition model with limited data presents a significant challenge, as the subtle differences between categories may not be easily discernible amidst distracting noise patterns. One commonly employed strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Avraham Chapman , Haiming Xu , Lingqiao Liu

Although effective deepfake detection models have been developed in recent years, recent studies have revealed that these models can result in unfair performance disparities among demographic groups, such as race and gender. This can lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-03 Li Lin , Xinan He , Yan Ju , Xin Wang , Feng Ding , Shu Hu

Training fair machine learning models, aiming for their interpretability and solving the problem of domain shift has gained a lot of interest in the last years. There is a vast amount of work addressing these topics, mostly in separation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Linda H. Boedi , Helmut Grabner

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) and their variants have been widely used in large scale face recognition(FR) recently. Existing methods have achieved good performance on many FR benchmarks. However, most of them suffer from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Jing Xu , Tszhang Guo , Yong Xu , Zenglin Xu , Kun Bai

Recent studies have highlighted fairness issues in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), where they produce discriminatory predictions against specific protected groups categorized by sensitive attributes such as race and age. While various efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuchang Zhu , Jintang Li , Yatao Bian , Zibin Zheng , Liang Chen

Face verification is a significant component of identity authentication in various applications including online banking and secure access to personal devices. The majority of the existing face image datasets often suffer from notable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Georgia Baltsou , Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos