Summary of Sum Of Group Error Differences: a Critical Examination Of Bias Evaluation in Biometric Verification and a Dual-metric Measure, by Alaa Elobaid et al.
Sum of Group Error Differences: A Critical Examination of Bias Evaluation in Biometric Verification and a Dual-Metric Measure
by Alaa Elobaid, Nathan Ramoly, Lara Younes, Symeon Papadopoulos, Eirini Ntoutsi, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A machine learning paper proposes new methods for evaluating biases in biometric verification (BV) systems. The existing metrics are limited, as they only focus on accuracy disparities across different demographic groups or overlook the magnitude of the bias present. This paper aims to fill this gap by introducing a novel approach that quantifies and assesses the fairness of BV systems. The proposed method is designed to capture biases in performance levels between the best and worst performing demographic groups. By addressing these limitations, this research contributes to ensuring the fairness and accuracy of BV applications. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Biometric verification systems are like super-advanced fingerprint scanners that help keep us safe. But sometimes, they don’t work equally well for everyone. For example, a system might be great at recognizing the fingerprints of young people but terrible at recognizing those of older adults. This is called bias, and it’s not fair. Right now, there isn’t a good way to measure this kind of bias, which means we can’t fix the problem. The goal of this research is to create a new way to evaluate biometric verification systems that takes into account these biases. By doing so, we can make sure that these systems are fair and work equally well for everyone. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
