Summary of Saliency-based Diversity and Fairness Metric and Facekeeporiginalaugment: a Novel Approach For Enhancing Fairness and Diversity, by Teerath Kumar et al.
Saliency-Based diversity and fairness Metric and FaceKeepOriginalAugment: A Novel Approach for Enhancing Fairness and Diversity
by Teerath Kumar, Alessandra Mileo, Malika Bendechache
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multimedia (cs.MM)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces an extension to the KeepOriginalAugment method called FaceKeepOriginalAugment, which aims to address geographical, gender, and stereotypical biases in computer vision models. The approach maintains a balance between data diversity and information preservation by exploiting both salient and non-salient regions. The authors investigate various strategies for determining the placement of the salient region and swapping perspectives to undergo augmentation. They evaluate the effectiveness of FaceKeepOriginalAugment in mitigating gender bias across CEO, Engineer, Nurse, and School Teacher datasets using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs). The findings show that FaceKeepOriginalAugment promotes fairness and inclusivity within computer vision models by reducing gender bias and enhancing overall fairness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about a new way to make computer vision models more fair. It’s called FaceKeepOriginalAugment, and it helps reduce biases in images. The authors used special techniques to add variety to the data and keep important information. They tested this approach on different datasets and found that it works well for reducing gender bias. This is an important step towards making AI more inclusive. |
