Summary of Sig: a Synthetic Identity Generation Pipeline For Generating Evaluation Datasets For Face Recognition, by Kassi Nzalasse et al.
SIG: A Synthetic Identity Generation Pipeline for Generating Evaluation Datasets for Face Recognition
by Kassi Nzalasse, Rishav Raj, Eli Laird, Corey Clark
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach is proposed to address the challenges of creating evaluation datasets for face recognition systems, which are crucial for ensuring public readiness and evaluating the performance and fairness of these models. The Synthetic Identity Generation pipeline (SIG) allows for the targeted creation of ethical, balanced datasets by generating high-quality images of synthetic identities with controllable pose, facial features, and demographic attributes. This is demonstrated through the release of an open-source evaluation dataset named ControlFace10k, consisting of 10,008 face images of 3,336 unique synthetic identities. The SIG pipeline and ControlFace10k dataset are shown to be effective in assessing algorithmic bias across different demographic groups. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way is being developed to make sure that the computer systems used for facial recognition are fair and do not discriminate against certain people. This is important because these systems are becoming more common and need to be evaluated to ensure they are working correctly. To evaluate these systems, you need a special kind of data that is different from what is typically used to train them. This new data needs to be collected in a way that respects people’s privacy and does not cause any harm. It can be difficult to get this kind of data, so the authors of this paper have come up with a solution. They propose a way to generate synthetic identities, which are fake but realistic-looking faces, to use as evaluation data. This approach has many benefits, including being able to control the features and demographics of the synthetic identities. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Face recognition
