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Automated systems built on artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly deployed across high-stakes domains, raising critical concerns about fairness and the perpetuation of demographic disparities that exist in the world. In this context,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Drago Plecko

Person Re-identification (ReID) aims to retrieve images of the same individual captured across non-overlapping camera views, making it a critical component of intelligent surveillance systems. Traditional ReID methods assume that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hyeonseo Lee , Juhyun Park , Jihyong Oh , Chanho Eom

Achieving robust generalization against unseen attacks remains a challenge in Audio Deepfake Detection (ADD), driven by the rapid evolution of generative models. To address this, we propose a framework centered on hard sample…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Bo Cheng , Songjun Cao , Xiaoming Zhang , Jie Chen , Long Ma , Fei Chen

Existing detectors are often trained on biased datasets, leading to the possibility of overfitting on non-causal image attributes that are spuriously correlated with real/synthetic labels. While these biased features enhance performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ruoxin Chen , Junwei Xi , Zhiyuan Yan , Ke-Yue Zhang , Shuang Wu , Jingyi Xie , Xu Chen , Lei Xu , Isabel Guan , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding

Fairness in machine learning has attained significant focus due to the widespread application in high-stake decision-making tasks. Unregulated machine learning classifiers can exhibit bias towards certain demographic groups in data, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Bishwamittra Ghosh , Debabrota Basu , Kuldeep S. Meel

Although deep learning has demonstrated astonishing performance in many applications, there are still concerns about its dependability. One desirable property of deep learning applications with societal impact is fairness (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Peixin Zhang , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Xinyu Wang , Guoliang Dong , Xingen Wang , Ting Dai , Jin Song Dong

Face recognition systems are widely deployed in safety-critical applications, including law enforcement, yet they exhibit bias across a range of socio-demographic dimensions, such as gender and race. Conventional wisdom dictates that model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Samuel Dooley , Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , John P. Dickerson , Colin White , Frank Hutter , Micah Goldblum

Recognizing the prevalence of domain shift as a common challenge in machine learning, various domain generalization (DG) techniques have been developed to enhance the performance of machine learning systems when dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yujie Lin , Chen Zhao , Minglai Shao , Baoluo Meng , Xujiang Zhao , Haifeng Chen

Disaggregated performance metrics across demographic groups are a hallmark of fairness assessments in computer vision. These metrics successfully incentivized performance improvements on person-centric tasks such as face analysis and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Melissa Hall , Bobbie Chern , Laura Gustafson , Denisse Ventura , Harshad Kulkarni , Candace Ross , Nicolas Usunier

Statistical fairness stipulates equivalent outcomes for every protected group, whereas causal fairness prescribes that a model makes the same prediction for an individual regardless of their protected characteristics. Counterfactual data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hannah Chen , Yangfeng Ji , David Evans

Face recognition and verification are two computer vision tasks whose performances have advanced with the introduction of deep representations. However, ethical, legal, and technical challenges due to the sensitive nature of face data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alexandre Fournier-Montgieux , Michael Soumm , Adrian Popescu , Bertrand Luvison , Hervé Le Borgne

Demographic fairness in face recognition (FR) has emerged as a critical area of research, given its impact on fairness, equity, and reliability across diverse applications. As FR technologies are increasingly deployed globally, disparities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ketan Kotwal , Sebastien Marcel

Prioritizing fairness is of central importance in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially for those societal applications, e.g., hiring systems should recommend applicants equally from different demographic groups, and risk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Zhibo Wang , Xiaowei Dong , Henry Xue , Zhifei Zhang , Weifeng Chiu , Tao Wei , Kui Ren

We show that deep networks trained to satisfy demographic parity often do so through a form of race or gender awareness, and that the more we force a network to be fair, the more accurately we can recover race or gender from the internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Michael Lohaus , Matthäus Kleindessner , Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Francesco Locatello , Chris Russell

As Large Language Models (LLMs) have risen in prominence over the past few years, there has been concern over the potential biases in LLMs inherited from the training data. Previous studies have examined how LLMs exhibit implicit bias, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Lake Yin , Fan Huang

The lack of bias management in Recommender Systems leads to minority groups receiving unfair recommendations. Moreover, the trade-off between equity and precision makes it difficult to obtain recommendations that meet both criteria. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jesús Bobadilla , Raúl Lara-Cabrera , Ángel González-Prieto , Fernando Ortega

Generalization is a main issue for current audio deepfake detectors, which struggle to provide reliable results on out-of-distribution data. Given the speed at which more and more accurate synthesis methods are developed, it is very…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Alessandro Pianese , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Luisa Verdoliva

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of highly realistic fake facial images, posing serious threats to personal privacy and the integrity of online information. Existing deepfake detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Huanhuan Yuan , Yang Ping , Zhengqin Xu , Junyi Cao , Shuai Jia , Chao Ma

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

Gender classification systems often inherit and amplify demographic imbalances in their training data. We first audit five widely used gender classification datasets, revealing that all suffer from significant intersectional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Tadesse K Bahiru , Natnael Tilahun Sinshaw , Teshager Hailemariam Moges , Dheeraj Kumar Singh