6 papers
Toward a More Ethical Facial Age Estimation: A Generalized Zero-Shot Benchmark Without Training on Children's Data
Caio Petrucci, Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro, Sandra Avila
Age estimation from facial images typically relies on training data that includes images of minors, a practice that raises ethical, legal, and privacy concerns and that child-data…
CSA-Graphs: A Privacy-Preserving Structural Dataset for Child Sexual Abuse Research
Carlos Caetano, Camila Laranjeira, Clara Ernesto +5
Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (CSAI) classification is an important yet challenging problem for computer vision research due to the strict legal and ethical restrictions that prevent…
Transformed Multi-view 3D Shape Features with Contrastive Learning
Márcus VinÃcius Lobo Costa, Sherlon Almeida da Silva, Bárbara Caroline Benato +2
This paper addresses the challenges in representation learning of 3D shape features by investigating state-of-the-art backbones paired with both contrastive supervised and self-sup…
Minimizing Risk Through Minimizing Model-Data Interaction: A Protocol For Relying on Proxy Tasks When Designing Child Sexual Abuse Imagery Detection Models
Thamiris Coelho, Leo S. F. Ribeiro, João Macedo +2
The distribution of child sexual abuse imagery (CSAI) is an ever-growing concern of our modern world; children who suffered from this heinous crime are revictimized, and the growin…
Neglected Risks: The Disturbing Reality of Children's Images in Datasets and the Urgent Call for Accountability
Carlos Caetano, Gabriel O. dos Santos, Caio Petrucci +6
Including children's images in datasets has raised ethical concerns, particularly regarding privacy, consent, data protection, and accountability. These datasets, often built by sc…
Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning for Scene Classification in Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Pedro H. V. Valois, João Macedo, Leo S. F. Ribeiro +2
Crime in the 21st century is split into a virtual and real world. However, the former has become a global menace to people's well-being and security in the latter. The challenges i…