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Many existing works have made great strides towards reducing racial bias in face recognition. However, most of these methods attempt to rectify bias that manifests in models during training instead of directly addressing a major source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Matthew Gwilliam , Srinidhi Hegde , Lade Tinubu , Alex Hanson

Datasets play an important role in the progress of facial expression recognition algorithms, but they may suffer from obvious biases caused by different cultures and collection conditions. To look deeper into this bias, we first conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Shan Li , Weihong Deng

Fairness in deep learning models trained with high-dimensional inputs and subjective labels remains a complex and understudied area. Facial emotion recognition, a domain where datasets are often racially imbalanced, can lead to models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Alex Fan , Xingshuo Xiao , Peter Washington

Deep neural networks are highly susceptible to learning biases in visual data. While various methods have been proposed to mitigate such bias, the majority require explicit knowledge of the biases present in the training data in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Rebecca S Stone , Nishant Ravikumar , Andrew J Bulpitt , David C Hogg

Face recognition algorithms, when used in the real world, can be very useful, but they can also be dangerous when biased toward certain demographics. So, it is essential to understand how these algorithms are trained and what factors affect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Manideep Kolla , Aravinth Savadamuthu

Deep learning models have achieved excellent recognition results on large-scale video benchmarks. However, they perform poorly when applied to videos with rare scenes or objects, primarily due to the bias of existing video datasets. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Haodong Duan , Yue Zhao , Kai Chen , Yuanjun Xiong , Dahua Lin

Applications based on Machine Learning models have now become an indispensable part of the everyday life and the professional world. A critical question then recently arised among the population: Do algorithmic decisions convey any type of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-07 Philippe Besse , Eustasio del Barrio , Paula Gordaliza , Jean-Michel Loubes , Laurent Risser

The issue of demographic disparities in face recognition accuracy has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Various face image datasets have been proposed as 'fair' or 'balanced' to assess the accuracy of face recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Haiyu Wu , Kevin W. Bowyer

Rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems amplify many concerns in society. These AI algorithms inherit different biases from humans due to mysterious operational flow and because of that it is becoming adverse in usage. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Artem Domnich , Gholamreza Anbarjafari

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) systems based on deep learning have achieved impressive performance in recent years. However, these models often exhibit demographic biases, particularly with respect to age, which can compromise their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Julia Sanchez-Perez , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

As equality issues in the use of face recognition have garnered a lot of attention lately, greater efforts have been made to debiased deep learning models to improve fairness to minorities. However, there is still no clear definition nor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Jiazhi Li , Wael Abd-Almageed

In many machine learning tasks, learning a good representation of the data can be the key to building a well-performant solution. This is because most learning algorithms operate with the features in order to find models for the data. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 David Charte , Francisco Charte , María J. del Jesus , Francisco Herrera

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

This paper presents an algorithm for enumerating biases in word embeddings. The algorithm exposes a large number of offensive associations related to sensitive features such as race and gender on publicly available embeddings, including a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Nathaniel Swinger , Maria De-Arteaga , Neil Thomas Heffernan , Mark DM Leiserson , Adam Tauman Kalai

Human biases have been shown to influence the performance of models and algorithms in various fields, including Natural Language Processing. While the study of this phenomenon is garnering focus in recent years, the available resources are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ana Sofia Evans , Helena Moniz , Luísa Coheur

As the deployment of automated face recognition (FR) systems proliferates, bias in these systems is not just an academic question, but a matter of public concern. Media portrayals often center imbalance as the main source of bias, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Valeriia Cherepanova , Steven Reich , Samuel Dooley , Hossein Souri , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

A recent study has shown that large-scale visual datasets are very biased: they can be easily classified by modern neural networks. However, the concrete forms of bias among these datasets remain unclear. In this study, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Boya Zeng , Yida Yin , Zhuang Liu

Machine learning fairness concerns about the biases towards certain protected or sensitive group of people when addressing the target tasks. This paper studies the debiasing problem in the context of image classification tasks. Our data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Yi Zhang , Jitao Sang

Data-driven algorithms are only as good as the data they work with, while data sets, especially social data, often fail to represent minorities adequately. Representation Bias in data can happen due to various reasons ranging from…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nima Shahbazi , Yin Lin , Abolfazl Asudeh , H. V. Jagadish

Computer Vision (CV) has achieved remarkable results, outperforming humans in several tasks. Nonetheless, it may result in significant discrimination if not handled properly as CV systems highly depend on the data they are fed with and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Simone Fabbrizzi , Symeon Papadopoulos , Eirini Ntoutsi , Ioannis Kompatsiaris