Proctorio Racial / bias issue Apr 8, 2021

Independent researcher Akash Satheesan reverse-engineered Proctorio's Chrome extension and demonstrated it uses OpenCV facial-detection models.

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Independent researcher Akash Satheesan reverse-engineered Proctorio's Chrome extension and demonstrated it uses OpenCV facial-detection models. On the FairFaces dataset, the algorithms failed to detect [name] faces approximately 57% of the time, with a detection ceiling under 75% across all ethnicities.
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Findings reported by Vice/Motherboard, Slashdot, htxt.africa, AIAAIC repository; Proctorio did not deny use of OpenCV
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