The Criminality From Face Illusion

The automatic analysis of face images can generate predictions about a person's gender, age, race, facial expression, body mass index, and various other indices and conditions. A few recent publications have claimed success in analyzing an image of a person's face in order to predict the p...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-11
Main Authors: Bowyer, Kevin W, King, Michael, Scheirer, Walter, Vangara, Kushal
Format: Article
Language:English
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Algorithms
Body size
Crime
Design of experiments
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Summary:The automatic analysis of face images can generate predictions about a person's gender, age, race, facial expression, body mass index, and various other indices and conditions. A few recent publications have claimed success in analyzing an image of a person's face in order to predict the person's status as Criminal / Non-Criminal. Predicting criminality from face may initially seem similar to other facial analytics, but we argue that attempts to create a criminality-from-face algorithm are necessarily doomed to fail, that apparently promising experimental results in recent publications are an illusion resulting from inadequate experimental design, and that there is potentially a large social cost to belief in the criminality from face illusion.
ISSN:2331-8422