Before revision: There are demographic biases in the SOTA CNN used for FR. Our BFW dataset serves as a proxy to measure bias across ethnicity and gender subgroups, allowing us to characterize FR performances per subgroup.
After revision: There are demographic biases in current models used for facial recognition (FR). Our Balanced Faces In the Wild (BFW) dataset serves as a proxy to measure bias across ethnicity and gender subgroups, allowing us to characterize FR performances per subgroup.