Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The Lena image is (was?) featured quite prominently in the OpenCV docs and tutorials. Kinda weird it only now goes noticed.

    • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      8 months ago

      In a 1999 essay on reasons for the male predominance in computer science, applied mathematician Dianne P. O’Leary wrote: .

      Suggestive pictures used in lectures on image processing … convey the message that the lecturer caters to the males only. For example, it is amazing that the “Lena” pin-up image is still used as an example in courses and published as a test image in journals today.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#Criticism

      That’s 25 years ago…

    • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      8 months ago

      It’s been noticed for ages. This is not the first time the issue has been discussed