arXiv:2606. 09881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deepfake detectors show large performance gaps across demographic groups.
By Ryan Brown, Chris Russell
arXiv:2606. 31704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The deployment of face detection models in real-world applications raises important fairness concerns, as these systems may showcase performance disparities across demographic groups.
By Maxime Moussi, Beno\^it Ronval, Siegfried Nijssen, F\'elicien Schiltz
Fairness evaluation in computer vision commonly relies on aggregate accuracy and demographic subgroup analysis. However, visual models are also sensitive to contextual factors such as illumination, blur, image quality, facial accessories, and appearance attributes.
The paper introduces Semantic Boundary Predictor (SBP), an inference‑time framework that improves demographic fairness in synthetic face generation by applying a single, one‑shot intervention during reverse denoising. SBP learns linear semantic boundaries from late‑stage latent representations and applies them only at the initial noisy latent, leaving the rest of the diffusion process unchanged. Experiments on CelebA‑HQ show significant reductions in fairness disparity—98% for gender, 95% for binary race, and 15% for four‑class race—while preserving image quality across demographic groups.
By Subir Kumar Parida, Rajbabu Velmurugan, Ketan Kotwal, R. S. Sengar, Swati Hiremath
arXiv:2606. 30528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current generative models, including GANs and diffusion models, have reached an outstanding level of photorealism, posing significant risks to privacy and security.
By Orazio Pontorno, Mattia Litrico, Luca Guarnera, Mario Valerio Giuffrida, Sebastiano Battiato
FairNVT is a lightweight debiasing framework that injects calibrated Gaussian noise into sensitive embeddings learned by adapters for pretrained transformer-based encoders. By reducing sensitive-attribute leakage through orthogonality constraints and fairness regularization, it improves fairness metrics such as demographic parity difference and equalized odds while maintaining competitive task performance across vision and language datasets.
By Qiaoyue Tang, Sepidehsadat Hosseini, Mengyao Zhai, Thibaut Durand, Greg Mori