Computer Vision Interview Questions, issue 20, Jan 21, 2026

The Low-Contrast Bias Trap

Senior Computer Vision Engineer interview at OpenAI, and the interviewer asks:

Our production FaceID model has a 12% higher error rate on darker skin tones. We audited the training data and it is perfectly balanced (50/50 split). We retrained from scratch. The error persists. Why?

Don’t say: You need to oversample the underrepresented class,

Why perfectly balanced face datasets still fail - and how sensor physics silently breaks feature learning.

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