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Artificial Intelligence-generated content has become increasingly popular, yet its malicious use, particularly the deepfakes, poses a serious threat to public trust and discourse. While deepfake detection methods achieve high predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tomasz Szandala , Fatima Ezzeddine , Natalia Rusin , Silvia Giordano , Omran Ayoub

Medical artificial intelligence systems have achieved remarkable diagnostic capabilities, yet they consistently exhibit performance disparities across demographic groups, causing real-world harm to underrepresented populations. While recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shiqi Dai , Wei Dai , Jiaee Cheong , Paul Pu Liang

Fairness (also known as equity interchangeably) in machine learning is important for societal well-being, but limited public datasets hinder its progress. Currently, no dedicated public medical datasets with imaging data for fairness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yan Luo , Yu Tian , Min Shi , Louis R. Pasquale , Lucy Q. Shen , Nazlee Zebardast , Tobias Elze , Mengyu Wang

We investigated the reproducibility of FairCLIP, proposed by Luo et al. (2024), for improving the group fairness of CLIP (Radford et al., 2021) by minimizing image-text similarity score disparities across sensitive groups using the Sinkhorn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hua Chang Bakker , Stan Fris , Angela Madelon Bernardy , Stan Deutekom

The advent of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in medical image analysis has the potential to help process multimodal inputs and increase performance over traditional inference methods. However, when considering the domain in which these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sparsh Bansal , Mingyang Wu , Xin Wang , Shu Hu

Visual language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in multimodal tasks but face challenges in maintaining fairness across demographic groups, particularly when deployed in federated learning (FL) environments. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Chaomeng Chen , Zitong Yu , Junhao Dong , Sen Su , Linlin Shen , Shutao Xia , Xiaochun Cao

As Vision Language Models (VLMs) gain widespread use, their fairness remains under-explored. In this paper, we analyze demographic biases across five models and six datasets. We find that portrait datasets like UTKFace and CelebA are the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Kuleen Sasse , Shan Chen , Jackson Pond , Danielle Bitterman , John Osborne

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), exemplified by CLIP, have emerged as foundational for multimodal intelligence. However, their capacity for logical understanding remains significantly underexplored, resulting in critical ''logical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yuchen Zhou , Jiayu Tang , Shuo Yang , Xiaoyan Xiao , Yuqin Dai , Wenhao Yang , Chao Gou , Xiaobo Xia , Tat-Seng Chua

Vision-language models (VLMs) have gained widespread adoption in both industry and academia. In this study, we propose a unified framework for systematically evaluating gender, race, and age biases in VLMs with respect to professions. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ashutosh Sathe , Prachi Jain , Sunayana Sitaram

Despite the success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP in aligning vision and language, their proficiency in detailed, fine-grained visual comprehension remains a key challenge. We present CLIP-IN, a novel framework that bolsters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziteng Wang , Siqi Yang , Limeng Qiao , Lin Ma

Early detection of eye diseases like glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy is crucial for preventing vision loss. While artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models hold significant promise for addressing these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Danli Shi , Weiyi Zhang , Jiancheng Yang , Siyu Huang , Xiaolan Chen , Mayinuer Yusufu , Kai Jin , Shan Lin , Shunming Liu , Qing Zhang , Mingguang He

Medical artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly multimodal vision-language models (VLM), often exhibit intersectional biases where models are systematically less confident in diagnosing marginalised patient subgroups. Such bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yupeng Zhang , Adam G. Dunn , Usman Naseem , Jinman Kim

Performance disparities of image recognition across demographic groups are known to exist in deep learning-based models, due to imbalanced group representations or spurious correlation between group and target labels. Previous work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Miao Zhang , Rumi Chunara

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for medical image reasoning, yet fairness across demographic groups remains a major concern. Existing debiasing methods often rely on large labeled datasets or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dawei Li , Zijian Gu , Peng Wang , Chuhan Song , Zhen Tan , Mohan Zhang , Tianlong Chen , Yu Tian , Song Wang

Recently pre-trained multimodal models, such as CLIP, have shown exceptional capabilities towards connecting images and natural language. The textual representations in English can be desirably transferred to multilingualism and support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jialu Wang , Yang Liu , Xin Eric Wang

Explaining Deep Learning models is becoming increasingly important in the face of daily emerging multimodal models, particularly in safety-critical domains like medical imaging. However, the lack of detailed investigations into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Mohammad Yaqub

Accurate classification of focal liver lesions is crucial for diagnosis and treatment in hepatology. However, traditional supervised deep learning models depend on large-scale annotated datasets, which are often limited in medical imaging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Song Jian , Hu Yuchang , Wang Hui , Chen Yen-Wei

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have shown significant potential, particularly in zero-shot classification across diverse distribution shifts. Building on existing evaluations of overall classification robustness, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Weijie Tu , Weijian Deng , Tom Gedeon

Recent progress in generative AI, especially diffusion models, has demonstrated significant utility in text-to-image synthesis. Particularly in healthcare, these models offer immense potential in generating synthetic datasets and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yan Luo , Muhammad Osama Khan , Congcong Wen , Muhammad Muneeb Afzal , Titus Fidelis Wuermeling , Min Shi , Yu Tian , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong zero-shot recognition but frequently inherit social biases from their training data. We systematically disentangle three design factors -- model size, training-data scale, and training-data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Zahraa Al Sahili , Ioannis Patras , Matthew Purver