22 Comparing software for facial recognition
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”
Background Buolamwini & Gebru (2018) is an important paper studying how well three facial recognition softwares performed in identifying people with different skin shades.
Questions How do the error rates vary by sex and skin colour? Are the error rates and patterns similar for the three softwares?
Sources Buolamwini & Gebru (2018)
Structure Prediction numbers for three software packages predicting for sex across 1270 individuals with six different skin shades.