Fairness is becoming an increasingly crucial issue for computer vision, especially in the human-related decision systems. However, achieving algorithmic fairness, which makes a model produce indiscriminative outcomes against protected groups, is still an unresolved problem. In this paper, we devise a systematic approach which reduces algorithmic biases via feature distillation for visual recognition tasks, dubbed as MMD-based Fair Distillation (MFD). While the distillation technique has been widely used in general to improve the prediction accuracy, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no explicit work that also tries to improve fairness via distillation. Furthermore, We give a theoretical justification of our MFD on the effect of knowledge distillation and fairness. Throughout the extensive experiments, we show our MFD significantly mitigates the bias against specific minorities without any loss of the accuracy on both synthetic and real-world face datasets.
How Knowledge Distillation Mitigates the Synthetic Gap in Fair Face Recognition
INESC TEC；Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto（波尔图大学工程学院）；Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor（马里博尔大学电气工程与计算机科学学院）
Online Knowledge Distillation via Mutual Contrastive Learning for Visual Recognition
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University（北京航空航天大学人工智能研究院）；Zhongguancun Laboratory（中关村实验室）；Horizon Robotics（地平线机器人）
Rectified Decoupled Dataset Distillation: A Closer Look for Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳））；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University（清华大学深圳国际研究生院）
Revealing the Two Sides of Data Augmentation: An Asymmetric Distillation-based Win-Win Solution for Open-Set Recognition
School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University（吉林大学人工智能学院）；Institute of Computing Technology, CAS（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳））；Institute of Automation, CAS（中国科学院自动化研究所）；DIDI（滴滴）
Visual Place Recognition in Forests with Depth-Aware Distillation
CSIRO Robotics, Brisbane, Australia（澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织机器人实验室，布里斯班，澳大利亚）；University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia（昆士兰大学，布里斯班，澳大利亚）；Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia（昆士兰科技大学，布里斯班，澳大利亚）
GaitKD: A Universal Decoupled Distillation Framework for Efficient Gait Recognition
The City University of New York（纽约城市大学）；Wuhan University（武汉大学）；Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学）；Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；University of Oulu（奥卢大学）
TSCM: A Teacher-Student Model for Vision Place Recognition Using Cross-Metric Knowledge Distillation
Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University（东北大学机器人科学与工程学院）；College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学智能科学学院）；SIASUN Robot& Automation Co., Ltd（新松机器人自动化股份有限公司）
Iterative Distillation for Better Uncertainty Estimates in Multitask Emotion Recognition
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）
当识别情绪时，情绪表现中的细微差别会产生情绪感知的模糊性或不确定性。情感不确定性以前被解释为多个注释者之间的评分者之间的分歧。在本文中，我们考虑了一个更常见和更具挑战性的场景：当只有单个情感标签可用时，对情感不确定性进行建模。从贝叶斯的角度来看，我们建议使用深度集成来捕获多个情感描述符的不确定性，即，动作单元、离散表达式标签和连续描述符。我们进一步应用迭代自蒸馏。多代迭代蒸馏显著提高了情感识别和不确定性估计的性能。我们的方法生成单个学生模型，该模型为域内样本提供准确的不确定性估计，并且生成可以检测域外样本的学生集合。我们使用Aff-wild 2数据集进行的情感识别和不确定性估计的实验表明，我们的算法比Temperature Scaling和Monte Carol Dropout给出了更可靠的不确定性估计。
Grouped Knowledge Distillation for Deep Face Recognition
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学网络空间安全学院）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院香港创新研究院人工智能与机器人中心）
Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen)（香港中文大学（深圳））
Self-Knowledge Distillation for Surgical Phase Recognition
Medtronic Digital Surgery（美敦力数字外科）；Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, University College London（伦敦大学学院惠康/工程与物理科学研究委员会介入与外科科学中心）
Joint Architecture and Knowledge Distillation in CNN for Chinese Text Recognition
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing（语音及语言信息处理国家工程实验室）
Hierarchical Augmentation and Distillation for Class Incremental Audio-Visual Video Recognition
School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学信息科学技术学院）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）
MixSKD: Self-Knowledge Distillation from Mixup for Image Recognition
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Horizon Robotics（地平线机器人）
Continuous Sign Language Recognition Based on Motor attention mechanism and frame-level Self-distillation
College of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University（哈尔滨工程大学智能系统科学与工程学院）；Northwest Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering（西北机电工程研究所）
Cross-Resolution Face Recognition via Prior-Aided Face Hallucination and Residual Knowledge Distillation
Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；National University of Defense Technology（中国人民解放军国防科技大学）；Pensees Pte Ltd（Pensees私人有限公司）；University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）
Pixel Distillation: A New Knowledge Distillation Scheme for Low-Resolution Image Recognition
Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）；Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University（第四军医大学西京医院）；Beijing Technology And Business University（北京工商大学）；Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence（穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学）；Nankai University（南开大学）；Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center（合肥综合性国家科学中心）
