Towards Measuring Bias in Image Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00360v1
• Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 10:50:39 GMT
• Title: Towards Measuring Bias in Image Classification
• Authors: Nina Schaaf, Omar de Mitri, Hang Beom Kim, Alexander Windberger, Marco F. Huber
• Abstract summary: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have become state-of-the-art for the main computer vision tasks. However, due to the complex structure their decisions are hard to understand which limits their use in some context of the industrial world. We present a systematic approach to uncover data bias by means of attribution maps.
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• Abstract: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have become de fact state-of-the-art for the main computer vision tasks. However, due to the complex underlying structure their decisions are hard to understand which limits their use in some context of the industrial world. A common and hard to detect challenge in machine learning (ML) tasks is data bias. In this work, we present a systematic approach to uncover data bias by means of attribution maps. For this purpose, first an artificial dataset with a known bias is created and used to train intentionally biased CNNs. The networks' decisions are then inspected using attribution maps. Finally, meaningful metrics are used to measure the attribution maps' representativeness with respect to the known bias. The proposed study shows that some attribution map techniques highlight the presence of bias in the data better than others and metrics can support the identification of bias.

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