All time are in Indian Standard Time (GMT +530)
1:00 -1:05 PM Opening Session
Pre-break session 1:05-3:05 PM --- Chair: Abhijit Das (BITS Pilani, India)
1:05 -2:05 PM
Keynote Talk 1: Dr. Vítor Albiero (Meta)
Title: Face Recognition Gender Bias: From Causes to Mitigation
2:05 -3:05 PM
Oral Session 1: Explainability and bias in biometrics
Mitigating Bias in Facial Recognition Systems: Centroid Fairness Loss Optimization
Jean-Rémy Conti (Télécom Paris)*; Stephan Clémençon (Télécom Paris) Online
Impact of Iris Pigmentation on Performance Bias in Visible Iris Verification Systems: A Comparative Study
Geetanjali Sharma (IIT Mandi)*; Gaurav Jaswal (IIT Mandi); Aditya Nigam (IIT mandi); Raghavendra Ramachandra (NTNU, Norway)
From Pixels to Words: Leveraging Explainability in Face Recognition through Interactive Natural Language Processing
Ivan DeAndres-Tame (UAM)*; Muhammad Faisal (Paderborn University); Ruben Tolosana (UAM); Rouqaiah H Al-Refai (Paderborn University); Ruben Vera-Rodriguez (UAM); Philipp Terhörst (Paderborn University) Online
Deep Learning-based Compression Detection for Explainable Face Image Quality Assessment
Laurin Jonientz (SSN AG); Johannes Merkle (SSN AG, Germany); Christian Rathgeb (Hochschule Darmstadt)*; Benjamin Tams ( SSN AG); Georg Merz (Hochschule Brandenburg)" Online
3:05-3:15 PM: Coffee Break
3:15-3:45 PM: Panel session: "Ask me anything"- Panelist: Abhinav Dhall (Monash University, Australia) Aythami Morales Moreno (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), Abhijit Das (BITS Pilani, India), Raghavendra Ramachandra (NTNU, Norway)
Post-break session (3:45-5:45 PM )--- Chair: Raghavendra Ramachandra (NTNU, Norway)
3:45-4:45 PM
Keynote 2: Prof. Dr. Aythami Morales Moreno (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Title: Unravelling the Layers: Understanding the Impact of Bias on Machine Learning at Multiple Levels
4:45-5:45 PM
Oral Session 2: Fairness in biometrics
Can Vision Transformers with ResNet's Global Features Fairly Authenticate Demographic Faces?
Abu Sufian (CNR-ISASI, Italy)*; Marco Leo (NIRCI); Cosimo Distante (NIRCI); Anirudha Ghosh (Visva-Bharati, India); Debaditya Barman (Visva-Bharati)
SIG: A Synthetic Identity Generation Pipeline for Generating Evaluation Datasets for Face Recognition
Kassi Nzalasse *; Rishav Raj ; Eli J Laird ; Corey Clark (Southern Methodist University, USA) Online
Fairness measures for biometric quality assessment
André Dörsch ; Torsten Schlett (Hochschule Darmstadt); Peter Munch (Technical University of Denmark); Christian Rathgeb; Christoph Busch (Hochschule Darmstadt) Online
Self-supervised Auxiliary Learning for Texture and Model-based Hybrid Robust and Fair Featuring in Face Analysis
Shukesh G Reddy*; Nishit N. Poddar (BITS Pilani, India); Srijan Das (UNCC, USA); Abhijit Das (BITS Pilani, India)
5:45-5:50 PM Closing Session