Summary of Synthetic Counterfactual Faces, by Guruprasad V Ramesh et al.
Synthetic Counterfactual Faces
by Guruprasad V Ramesh, Harrison Rosenberg, Ashish Hooda, Shimaa Ahmed Kassem Fawaz
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 The paper proposes a generative AI-based framework to create targeted, counterfactual, high-quality synthetic face data for evaluating the robustness and fairness of computer vision models against semantic distributional shifts in input data. The authors demonstrate the efficacy of their pipeline on a leading commercial vision model and identify facial attributes that cause vision systems to fail. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper creates a new way to make fake faces using artificial intelligence (AI) to help test how well computer programs can recognize real faces. This is important because collecting lots of real face data is hard and expensive, but making fake faces that look like they could be real helps us learn about the problems with these recognition systems. |
