“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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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...
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.
