Today, Google has decided to introduce a new step in its commitment to image equity and to improve the representation across all its products. Google has partnered with Harvard profession and sociologist Dr. Ellis Monk and the company is releasing a new skin tone scale that is designed to be more inclusive of the spectrum of skin tones that we see in our daily life.
The Monk Skin Tone Scale Will Revolutionize How Different Skintones are Represented Thanks to Google
This is what the scale looks like and it was designed to have an easy-to-use for the development and evaluation of technology. Google is calling it the Monk Screen Tone Scale and you can look at it below.
This is what Google has to say about Monk Skin Tone Scale. You can read more about it here. The MST Scale will help us and the tech industry at large build more representative datasets so we can train and evaluate AI models for fairness, resulting in features and products that work better for everyone — of all skin tones. For example, we use the scale to evaluate and improve the models that detect faces in images.
