Facial recognition technology exhibits bias, particularly in accurately identifying African American individuals, leading to higher rates of false positives and negatives. This issue, rooted in non-diverse training datasets, raises concerns about fairness and discrimination, undermining trust in its universality and effectiveness.
Gather a diverse dataset of facial images.
Clean, resize, normalize, and augment the dataset.
Extract meaningful facial features.
Choose a facial recognition model.
Train the model on labeled data.
Fine-tune model hyperparameters.
Detect faces within images or video frames.
Allows us to set specific criteria or metrics to determine whether a recognition match is accepted or rejected.
Our the model is initially trained on a broad dataset, and then, our dataset is introduced during the fine-tuning process. This step enables the model to learn and adapt to the unique features and characteristics of African American faces.
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MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't detect her face -- because the people who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it to identify a broad range of skin tones and facial structures.