Racial Bias in the Beautyverse
arXiv:2209.13939v11 citationsh-index: 57
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It addresses racial bias in beauty filters, a problem for social media users and researchers, but is preliminary and incremental in nature.
The paper investigates racial biases in beauty filters on social media, finding that these biases risk being replicated and exaggerated in the Metaverse, urging more attention from the Computer Vision community.
This short paper proposes a preliminary and yet insightful investigation of racial biases in beauty filters techniques currently used on social media. The obtained results are a call to action for researchers in Computer Vision: such biases risk being replicated and exaggerated in the Metaverse and, as a consequence, they deserve more attention from the community.