Having reviewed papers in the 'bloated' graphics field at SIGGRAPH, yes, you can usually guess who wrote a particular paper.
> This may not be obvious to the normal grad student, but after a decade in a community of 1K-10K people
The communities are smaller than that. Within sub-fields in graphics, you usually have perhaps five or six research groups to guess from.
Having reviewed papers in the 'bloated' graphics field at SIGGRAPH, yes, you can usually guess who wrote a particular paper.
> This may not be obvious to the normal grad student, but after a decade in a community of 1K-10K people
The communities are smaller than that. Within sub-fields in graphics, you usually have perhaps five or six research groups to guess from.