Racial Bias in the Beautyverse

TL;DR

This paper investigates racial biases in social media beauty filters, highlighting the risk of such biases being amplified in the Metaverse and urging the computer vision community to address this issue.

Contribution

It provides a preliminary analysis of racial biases in beauty filters and emphasizes the need for further research to prevent bias amplification in virtual environments.

Findings

Biases exist in current beauty filter techniques.

Biases could be replicated and exaggerated in the Metaverse.

Calls for increased attention from researchers to mitigate biases.

Abstract

This short paper proposes a preliminary and yet insightful investigation of racial biases in beauty filters techniques currently used on social media. The obtained results are a call to action for researchers in Computer Vision: such biases risk being replicated and exaggerated in the Metaverse and, as a consequence, they deserve more attention from the community.