Balancing Biases and Preserving Privacy on Balanced Faces in the Wild

Demographic biases exist in current models used for facial recognition (FR). Our Balanced Faces in the Wild (BFW) dataset is a proxy to measure bias across ethnicity and gender subgroups, allowing one to characterize FR performances per subgroup. We show that results are non-optimal when a single score threshold determines whether sample pairs are genuine or imposters. Furthermore, within subgroups, performance often varies significantly from the global average. Thus, specific error rates only hold for populations matching the validation data. We mitigate the imbalanced performances using a novel domain adaptation learning scheme on the facial features extracted from state-of-the-art neural networks, boosting the average performance. The proposed method also preserves identity information while removing demographic knowledge. The removal of demographic knowledge prevents potential biases from being injected into decision-making and protects privacy since demographic information is no longer available. We explore the proposed method and show that subgroup classifiers can no longer learn from the features projected using our domain adaptation scheme. For source code and data, see https://github.com/visionjo/facerec-bias-bfw.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2102.0894

Extreme fate as convention : episodic reprisals against divine messenger opposition in Scripture

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Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science

A collection of papers presented at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, July 1994, including the following papers: ** Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Barry Smith ** The Bounds of Axiomatisation, Graham White ** Rethinking Boundaries, Wojciech Zelaniec ** Sheaf Mereology and Space Cognition, Jean Petitot ** A Mereotopological Definition of 'Point', Carola Eschenbach ** Discreteness, Finiteness, and the Structure of Topological Spaces, Christopher Habel ** Mass Reference and the Geometry of Solids, Almerindo E. Ojeda ** Defining a 'Doughnut' Made Difficult, N .M. Gotts ** A Theory of Spatial Regions with Indeterminate Boundaries, A.G. Cohn and N.M. Gotts ** Mereotopological Construction of Time from Events, Fabio Pianesi and Achille C. Varzi ** Computational Mereology: A Study of Part-of Relations for Multi-media Indexing, Wlodek Zadrozny and Michelle Ki