Research Article
On the Potential of Algorithm Fusion for Demographic Bias Mitigation in Face Recognition
Table 4
FMRs in percent when using the global system threshold on demographic subsets.
| (a) Comparisons only within the same demographic group | Model | Demographic group | All | Female | Male | Dark | Light | df | dm | lf | lm |
| af_casia | 0.1 | 0.117 | 0.287 | 0.521 | 0.087 | 1.353 | 0.562 | 0.122 | 0.017 | af_glint360k | 0.1 | 0.101 | 0.307 | 0.450 | 0.086 | 0.748 | 0.531 | 0.108 | 0.155 | af_ms1mv2 | 0.1 | 0.139 | 0.227 | 0.337 | 0.116 | 1.194 | 0.373 | 0.147 | 0.212 | af_ms1mv3 | 0.1 | 0.162 | 0.167 | 0.267 | 0.129 | 0.890 | 0.296 | 0.174 | 0.069 | af_mxnet | 0.1 | 0.121 | 0.240 | 0.278 | 0.121 | 0.696 | 0.324 | 0.130 | 0.401 | af_webface600k | 0.1 | 0.184 | 0.138 | 0.215 | 0.153 | 0.673 | 0.239 | 0.203 | 0.114 | Curricularface | 0.1 | 0.123 | 0.191 | 0.319 | 0.093 | 1.630 | 0.315 | 0.115 | 0.080 | ef_arc | 0.1 | 0.103 | 0.300 | 0.471 | 0.081 | 1.161 | 0.538 | 0.105 | 0.111 | ef_arcplus | 0.1 | 0.086 | 0.327 | 0.519 | 0.066 | 1.360 | 0.578 | 0.083 | 0.108 | ef_cos | 0.1 | 0.116 | 0.255 | 0.386 | 0.096 | 1.177 | 0.421 | 0.118 | 0.183 | ef_cosplus | 0.1 | 0.084 | 0.315 | 0.436 | 0.079 | 0.908 | 0.496 | 0.084 | 0.254 | Magface | 0.1 | 0.246 | 0.048 | 0.080 | 0.195 | 0.551 | 0.086 | 0.278 | 0.047 | COTS | 0.1 | 0.188 | 0.170 | 0.269 | 0.150 | 1.025 | 0.306 | 0.207 | 0.122 |
| (b) Comparisons only across demographic groups | Model | All | Gender | Skin | df–dm | df–lf | df–lm | dm–lf | dm–lm | lf–lm |
| af_casia | 0.1 | 0.024 | 0.011 | 0.321 | 0.037 | 0.007 | 0.009 | 0.005 | 0.009 | af_glint360k | 0.1 | 0.030 | 0.029 | 0.156 | 0.030 | 0.026 | 0.022 | 0.064 | 0.026 | af_ms1mv2 | 0.1 | 0.028 | 0.025 | 0.154 | 0.045 | 0.036 | 0.016 | 0.052 | 0.032 | af_ms1mv3 | 0.1 | 0.030 | 0.029 | 0.125 | 0.057 | 0.025 | 0.025 | 0.031 | 0.025 | af_mxnet | 0.1 | 0.037 | 0.035 | 0.092 | 0.035 | 0.048 | 0.020 | 0.104 | 0.068 | af_webface600k | 0.1 | 0.023 | 0.016 | 0.098 | 0.043 | 0.019 | 0.012 | 0.020 | 0.037 | curricularface | 0.1 | 0.051 | 0.054 | 0.234 | 0.123 | 0.089 | 0.041 | 0.061 | 0.041 | ef_arc | 0.1 | 0.030 | 0.029 | 0.194 | 0.050 | 0.037 | 0.022 | 0.049 | 0.021 | ef_arcplus | 0.1 | 0.034 | 0.034 | 0.259 | 0.057 | 0.047 | 0.023 | 0.064 | 0.019 | ef_cos | 0.1 | 0.035 | 0.034 | 0.209 | 0.063 | 0.060 | 0.022 | 0.067 | 0.034 | ef_cosplus | 0.1 | 0.040 | 0.040 | 0.200 | 0.047 | 0.073 | 0.024 | 0.107 | 0.048 | Magface | 0.1 | 0.006 | 0.005 | 0.023 | 0.020 | 0.001 | 0.003 | 0.002 | 0.012 | COTS | 0.1 | 0.009 | 0.006 | 0.090 | 0.030 | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.012 | 0.013 |
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The lowest error rates are marked in bold.
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