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Racial faces in the wild: Reducing racial bias by information maximization adaptation network

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Wang, Mei, Deng, Weihong, Hu, Jiani, Tao, Xunqiang, Huang, Yaohai·2019·2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

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Racial bias is an important issue in biometric, but has not been thoroughly studied in deep face recognition. In this paper, we first contribute a dedicated dataset called Racial Faces in-the-Wild (RFW) database, on which we firmly validated the racial bias of four commercial APIs and four state-of-the-art (SOTA) algorithms. Then, we further present the solution using deep unsupervised domain adaptation and propose a deep information maximization adaptation network (IMAN) to alleviate this bias by using Caucasian as source domain and other races as target domains. This unsupervised method simultaneously aligns global distribution to decrease race gap at domain-level, and learns the discriminative target representations at cluster level. A novel mutual information loss is proposed to further enhance the discriminative ability of network output without label information. Extensive experiments on RFW, GBU, and IJB-A databases show that IMAN successfully learns features that generalize well across different races and across different databases.

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Authors
Wang, M., Deng, W., Hu, J., Tao, X., & Huang, Y.
Affiliations
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN)
Venue
2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2019-10
Pages
692-702
OpenAlex
W2982232682
Cited by
353
References
68
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 47 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 60 · 2022: 69 · 2021: 68 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 2
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14.34
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conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face and Expression Recognition
Keywords
racial bias, face recognition, deep face recognition, unsupervised domain adaptation, mutual information loss, cross-dataset generalization

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