- Published on May 17, 2022
- In Global Tech
Google’s new attempt to address bias complaints
Monk, an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard, said that the number of colours on the scale had been devised by him after a decade of research with skin tones.
Image by Analytics India Magazine
- By Poulomi Chatterjee
Last week, at the Google I/O developer conference, the company announced that it would be adopting a new 10-shade skin tone scale it has created in partnership with Harvard professor and a person of colour himself, Ellis Monk. Known as the Monk Skin Tone Scale, or MST, the scale was designed as a replacement for outdated measures like the Fitzpatrick scale, which has been used by tech companies to classify skin tones in computer vision algorithms. The Fitzpatrick scale originally included only six skin tones and was created by dermatologists in the 1970s.
Image: The 10-point Monk Skin Tone Scale. Source: Ellis Monk / Google
New scale, more diverse datasets
Google has said that the scale will help it build more inclusive datasets and then evaluate whether a mo
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Poulomi Chatterjee
Poulomi is a Technology Journalist with Analytics India Magazine. Her fascination with tech and eagerness to dive into new areas led her to the dynamic world of AI and data analytics.
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