Incident 454: Emotion Detection Models Showed Disparate Performance along Racial Lines
Description: Emotion detection tools by Face++ and Microsoft's Face API allegedly scored smiling or defaulted ambiguous facial photos for Black faces as negative emotion more often than for white faces.
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Incident ID
454
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2018-11-09
Editors
Khoa Lam
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papers.ssrn.com · 2018
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Abstract
The practical applications of artificial intelligence are expanding into various elements of society, leading to a growing interest in the potential biases of such algorithms. Facial analysis, one application of artificial intellig…
theconversation.com · 2019
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Facial recognition technology has progressed to point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type of analysis is increasingly used in daily life. For example, companies can use facial recognition software to help with …
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