Skin is the outermost tissue of the human body. As a result, people are very aware of, and very sensitive to, the appearance of their skin. Consequently, skin appearance has been a subject of great interest in several fields of science and technology. As shown in Figure 1, research on skin appearance has been intensely pursued in the fields of medicine, cosmetology, computer graphics and computer vision. Since the goals of these fields are very different, each field has tended to focus on specific aspects of the appearance of skin. The goal of this study is to present a comprehensive survey that includes the most prominent results related to skin in these different fields and show how these seemingly disconnected studies are closely related.
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Takanori Igarashi
Ko Nishino
Shree K. Nayar
