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We address for the first time the problem of correcting group discriminations within a score function, while minimizing the individual error. Each group is described by a probability density function on the set of profiles. We first solve the problem analy ...

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Removing Algorithmic Discrimination (With Minimal Individual Error)

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Discrimination against foreigners in the U.S. patent system

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Inventions of foreign origin are about ten percentage points less likely to be granted a U.S. patent than domestic inventions. An empirical analysis of 1.5 million U.S. patent applications identifies three systematic differences between foreign and domesti ...

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Skin lightening products' violations in Europe: An analysis of the rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products 2005-2018

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EPFL2017

Method development for discrimination of anodic and cathodic signals in miniature fission chambers for reactor physics applications

In 2014, a measurement campaign was made at CEA Cadarache using different versions of a high sensibility miniature fission chamber prototype with two fissile layers. The current project studies the possibilities of discrimination between signals coming fro ...

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What impacts skin color in digital photos?

Albrecht Johannes Lindner, Stefan Winkler

Skin colors are important for a broad range of imaging applications to assure quality and naturalness. We discuss the impact of various metadata on skin colors in images, i.e. how does the presence of a metadata attribute influence the expected skin color ...

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"Self pop-out": agency enhances self-recognition in visual search

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Sabine Süsstrunk, Appu Shaji, Gökhan Yildirim

The major low-level perceptual components that influence the beauty ratings of video are color, contrast, and motion. To estimate the beauty ratings of the NHK dataset, we propose to extract these features based on supervoxels, which are a group of pixels ...

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