Chyna McRae

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
0009-0000-1907-944XORCID · reported

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Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Trustworthy machine learning · 61% Face, body and person analysis · 30% 3D vision · 9%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › fairness
fair classification
0.812024
Hairmony: Fairness-aware hairstyle classification · SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
fairness
0.812024
Hairmony: Fairness-aware hairstyle classification · SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
Computer vision › 3D vision
human digitization
0.212024
Hairmony: Fairness-aware hairstyle classification · SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

synthetic training data · 0.8pre-trained feature extraction · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Hairmony: Fairness-aware hairstyle classification
abstract
We present a method for prediction of a person's hairstyle from a single image. Despite growing use cases in user digitization and enrollment for virtual experiences, available methods are limited, particularly in the range of hairstyles they can capture. Human hair is extremely diverse and lacks any universally accepted description or categorization, making this a challenging task. Most current methods rely on parametric models of hair at a strand level. These approaches, while very promising, are not yet able to represent short, frizzy, coily hair and gathered hairstyles. We instead choose a classification approach which can represent the diversity of hairstyles required for a truly robust and inclusive system. Previous classification approaches have been restricted by poorly labeled data that lacks diversity, imposing constraints on the usefulness of any resulting enrollment system. We use only synthetic data to train our models. This allows for explicit control of diversity of hairstyle attributes, hair colors, facial appearance, poses, environments and other parameters. It also produces noise-free ground-truth labels. We introduce a novel hairstyle taxonomy developed in collaboration with a diverse group of domain experts which we use to balance our training data, supervise our model, and directly measure fairness. We annotate our synthetic training data and a real evaluation dataset using this taxonomy and release both to enable comparison of future hairstyle prediction approaches. We employ an architecture based on a pre-trained feature extraction network in order to improve generalization of our method to real data and predict taxonomy attributes as an auxiliary task to improve accuracy. Results show our method to be significantly more robust for challenging hairstyles than recent parametric approaches.
Givi Meishvili, James Clemoes, Charlie Hewitt, Zafiirah Hosenie, Xian Xiao, Martin de La Gorce, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Antonio Criminisi, Chyna McRae, Nina Jablonski, Marta Wilczkowiak
SIGGRAPH Asia10