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CLIP models show high accuracy for zero-shot gender estimation on faces

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Researchers explored the effectiveness of CLIP for zero-shot gender estimation using both full-face and periocular images. When applied to full-face images, CLIP achieved over 95% accuracy without specific training. However, for periocular images, CLIP showed a bias towards predicting male, which was mitigated through threshold alignment, reaching approximately 85% accuracy. While linear SVMs trained on CLIP features offered minor improvements, a significant performance gap persisted between full-face and periocular estimations. AI

IMPACT This research highlights CLIP's potential for zero-shot image analysis tasks, though challenges remain in bias mitigation for specific applications like periocular recognition.

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CLIP models show high accuracy for zero-shot gender estimation on faces

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Benchmarking CLIP for Zero-Shot Face and Periocular Gender Estimation

    We investigate CLIP for zero-shot gender estimation from full-face and periocular images. Three CLIP backbones are evaluated on 11,299 frontal images from Adience using image-text similarity with male/female prompts, achieving 95.54% full-face accuracy without task-specific train…

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