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A critical problem in deep learning is that systems learn inappropriate biases, resulting in their inability to perform well on minority groups. This has led to the creation of multiple algorithms that endeavor to mitigate bias. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Robik Shrestha , Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

In this paper, a deep learning framework is proposed for automatic facial emotion based on deep convolutional networks. In order to increase the generalization ability and the robustness of the method, the dataset size is increased by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Serap Kırbız

Biases in the dataset often enable the model to achieve high performance on in-distribution data, while poorly performing on out-of-distribution data. To mitigate the detrimental effect of the bias on the networks, previous works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Eojin Jeon , Mingyu Lee , Juhyeong Park , Yeachan Kim , Wing-Lam Mok , SangKeun Lee

Deep Learning models have achieved remarkable success. Training them is often accelerated by building on top of pre-trained models which poses the risk of perpetuating encoded biases. Here, we investigate biases in the representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Valerie Krug , Sebastian Stober

Machine learning models can inherit biases from their training data, leading to discriminatory or inaccurate predictions. This is particularly concerning with the increasing use of large, unsupervised datasets for training foundational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Aranzazu Jurio , Mikel Galar

This study investigates the possibility of mitigating the demographic biases that affect face recognition technologies through the use of synthetic data. Demographic biases have the potential to impact individuals from specific demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Aythami Morales , Dominik Lawatsch , Florian Domin , Maxim Schaubert

Deep facial expression recognition faces two challenges that both stem from the large number of trainable parameters: long training times and a lack of interpretability. We propose a novel method based on evolutionary algorithms, that deals…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Emmanuel Dufourq , Bruce A. Bassett

Dataset bias is a significant problem in training fair classifiers. When attributes unrelated to classification exhibit strong biases towards certain classes, classifiers trained on such dataset may overfit to these bias attributes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Zaiying Zhao , Soichiro Kumano , Toshihiko Yamasaki

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

Recently, concerns regarding potential biases in the underlying algorithms of many automated systems (including biometrics) have been raised. In this context, a biased algorithm produces statistically different outcomes for different groups…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 P. Drozdowski , B. Prommegger , G. Wimmer , R. Schraml , C. Rathgeb , A. Uhl , C. Busch

A significant limiting factor in training fair classifiers relates to the presence of dataset bias. In particular, face datasets are typically biased in terms of attributes such as gender, age, and race. If not mitigated, bias leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Markos Georgopoulos , James Oldfield , Mihalis A. Nicolaou , Yannis Panagakis , Maja Pantic

Discrimination can occur when the underlying unbiased labels are overwritten by an agent with potential bias, resulting in biased datasets that unfairly harm specific groups and cause classifiers to inherit these biases. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yixuan Zhang , Boyu Li , Zenan Ling , Feng Zhou

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

Deep learning-based methods have pushed the limits of the state-of-the-art in face analysis. However, despite their success, these models have raised concerns regarding their bias towards certain demographics. This bias is inflicted both by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Markos Georgopoulos , Yannis Panagakis , Maja Pantic

The performance of algorithmic decision rules is largely dependent on the quality of training datasets available to them. Biases in these datasets can raise economic and ethical concerns due to the resulting algorithms' disparate treatment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yifan Yang , Yang Liu , Parinaz Naghizadeh

Facial micro-expressions are very brief, spontaneous facial expressions that appear on the face of humans when they either deliberately or unconsciously conceal an emotion. Micro-expression has shorter duration than macro-expression, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Walied Merghani , Adrian K. Davison , Moi Hoon Yap

Adversarial learning is a widely used technique in fair representation learning to remove the biases on sensitive attributes from data representations. It usually requires to incorporate the sensitive attribute labels as prediction targets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

Feature descriptors involved in image processing are generally manually chosen and high dimensional in nature. Selecting the most important features is a very crucial task for systems like facial expression recognition. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Muhammad Usman , Siddique Latif , Junaid Qadir

The adoption of diagnosis and prognostic algorithms in healthcare has led to concerns about the perpetuation of bias against disadvantaged groups of individuals. Deep learning methods to detect and mitigate bias have revolved around…

Existing techniques for mitigating dataset bias often leverage a biased model to identify biased instances. The role of these biased instances is then reduced during the training of the main model to enhance its robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Hossein Amirkhani , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar