“Skin” is analogized to milk, marble, cheese, wax, and snow. At SIGGRAPH, skin means white skin.
Authors often imply that their models also work on dark skin, but never show it. Post-George Floyd, researchers start grudgingly adding awful-looking Black skin examples to the ends of their papers.
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SIGGRAPH goes to #FAccT2026! Congrats to my co-authors @posada.website, @avmenon.bsky.social and @bsky.alexaschor.com
We analyzed every SIGGRAPH, ToG, and SIGGRAPH Asia paper from 1974-2024 to see how race is imagined in graphics research. The results were not good.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835
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This is fucking incredible work.
Holy shit this is amazing???
Happy to launch monkscale.com — the home for the Monk Skin Tone Scale. A quick hub for information about the MST, research using the MST, studies about the MST, clinical and tech deployments of the MST, news coverage, and standards adoption across the FDA, ISO, EU AI Act, etc.
#MonkSkinToneScale
This is mind-blowing... Amazing work :)
arxiv.org
Excited to share news about Monk Skin Tone Scale - Spatial Frequency Domain Spectroscopy (MST-SFDS). 🧵
MST-SFDS anchors each tone of the MST in chromophore-specific spectroscopy — absorption (μ_a) and reduced scattering (μ_s') coefficients at the wavelength bands where melanin and hemoglobin live.
Computer graphics algorithms for generating photorealistic imagery are widely perceived to be universal, and capable of conjuring anything that a filmmaker or game designer can imagine. However, recen...
