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Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated dermatologist-level performance in the classification of melanoma from skin lesion images, but prediction irregularities due to biases seen within the training data are an issue that should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Peter J. Bevan , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

In this paper, we present a strategy for training convolutional neural networks to effectively resolve interference arising from competing hypotheses relating to inter-categorical information throughout the network. The premise is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Md Amirul Islam , Matthew Kowal , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Neil D. B. Bruce

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

Deep models trained on large amounts of data often incorporate implicit biases present during training time. If later such a bias is discovered during inference or deployment, it is often necessary to acquire new data and retrain the model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Niklas Penzel , Gideon Stein , Joachim Denzler

In image classification, "debiasing" aims to train a classifier to be less susceptible to dataset bias, the strong correlation between peripheral attributes of data samples and a target class. For example, even if the frog class in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Jungsoo Lee , Jeonghoon Park , Daeyoung Kim , Juyoung Lee , Edward Choi , Jaegul Choo

Societal bias towards certain communities is a big problem that affects a lot of machine learning systems. This work aims at addressing the racial bias present in many modern gender recognition systems. We learn race invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Komal K. Teru , Aishik Chakraborty

Dataset bias is a well-known problem in the field of computer vision. The presence of implicit bias in any image collection hinders a model trained and validated on a particular dataset to yield similar accuracies when tested on other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Kirthi Shankar Sivamani

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

The new era of image segmentation leveraging the power of Deep Neural Nets (DNNs) comes with a price tag: to train a neural network for pixel-wise segmentation, a large amount of training samples has to be manually labeled on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Clemens Seibold , Johannes Künzel , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Prior work has shown that Visual Recognition datasets frequently underrepresent bias groups $B$ (\eg Female) within class labels $Y$ (\eg Programmers). This dataset bias can lead to models that learn spurious correlations between class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Maan Qraitem , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer

Biases in machine learning pose significant challenges, particularly when models amplify disparities that affect disadvantaged groups. Traditional bias mitigation techniques often lead to a {\itshape leveling-down effect}, whereby improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lucas Mansilla , Rodrigo Echeveste , Camila Gonzalez , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante

In the task of image classification, usually, the network is sensitive to noises. For example, an image of cat with noises might be misclassified as an ostrich. Conventionally, to overcome the problem of noises, one uses the technique of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Yang Liu , Hai-Long Tu , Chi-Chun Zhou , Yi Liu , Fu-Lin Zhang

Unintended bias in Machine Learning can manifest as systemic differences in performance for different demographic groups, potentially compounding existing challenges to fairness in society at large. In this paper, we introduce a suite of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Daniel Borkan , Lucas Dixon , Jeffrey Sorensen , Nithum Thain , Lucy Vasserman

A deraining network can be interpreted as a conditional generator that aims at removing rain streaks from image. Most existing image deraining methods ignore model errors caused by uncertainty that reduces embedding quality. Unlike existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Chenghao Chen , Hao Li

Predictive uncertainty-a model's self awareness regarding its accuracy on an input-is key for both building robust models via training interventions and for test-time applications such as selective classification. We propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Nishant Jain , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Pradeep Shenoy

Neural networks are prone to be biased towards spurious correlations between classes and latent attributes exhibited in a major portion of training data, which ruins their generalization capability. We propose a new method for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Nayeong Kim , Sehyun Hwang , Sungsoo Ahn , Jaesik Park , Suha Kwak

Ensuring a neural network is not relying on protected attributes (e.g., race, sex, age) for predictions is crucial in advancing fair and trustworthy AI. While several promising methods for removing attribute bias in neural networks have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jiazhi Li , Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Jiageng Zhu , Hanchen Xie , Mohamed E. Hussein , Wael AbdAlmageed

Deep learning models are prone to learning shortcut solutions to problems using spuriously correlated yet irrelevant features of their training data. In high-risk applications such as medical image analysis, this phenomenon may prevent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Christopher Boland , Sotirios Tsaftaris , Sonia Dahdouh

Despite the rapid development and great success of machine learning models, extensive studies have exposed their disadvantage of inheriting latent discrimination and societal bias from the training data. This phenomenon hinders their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Tianxiang Zhao , Enyan Dai , Kai Shu , Suhang Wang

Autoregressive models are often employed to learn distributions of image data by decomposing the $D$-dimensional density function into a product of one-dimensional conditional distributions. Each conditional depends on preceding variables…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Ambrose Emmett-Iwaniw , Nathan Kirk