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The Lenna story
- Caligula 17y agoThis is amusing. I did my undergraduate thesis on expanding my professors work on block truncation coding for image compression and this is the image that was used. I always figured my prof used it because it was a pretty woman and I even recall the filename was lena.raw.
- SlyShy 17y agoAs stated, it really is the defacto image used in image processing communities. Much like the Utah Teapot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot), which you might recognize from using 3DSMax or similar software.
- phillaf 17y agoor tsukuba(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clz/Exam1Real.jpg http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clz/Exam1Real.jpg) in stereovision
- RodgerTheGreat 17y agoIs it sad that my first exposure to Lenna was the LenPEG "compression" algorithm? http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html
- Rod 17y agoMore links: http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lmpo/lenna/Lenna97.html http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lmpo/lenna/Lenna97.html http://ndevilla.free.fr/lena/ http://ndevilla.free.fr/lena/
- lsb 17y agoI wonder how much of an image corpus you can get from Wikimedia (CC) files.
- celoyd 17y agoYou could find much better test images, that’s for sure. Lenna looks like what it is: old-style film printed fairly well and then scanned fairly well. It has a strong color cast and no full black. It’s only used everywhere because it’s already used everywhere.
- nandemo 17y agoI had never seen the original, full picture. There's something in the background that's somewhat disturbing...
- winter_blue 17y agoIs it the baby doll?
- phillaf 17y agoI study in computer vision. One of the professors in our department had some of his papers refused by some publishers. They thought it was morally unacceptable to put a playmate's face in the paper.
- Rod 17y agoI applaud such moral rectitude. After all, people who regularly accept grants from the military in order to develop, say, automatic target recognition systems, cannot possibly blemish their immaculate reputation by publishing a cropped image of a tasteful, artistic photo of a gorgeous naked woman. Looks like all the rumours about the academics' lack of testicular fortitude have been confirmed...
- motters 17y agoUntil reading this I had no idea about the background story to this classic test image. It's faintly amusing, given the contemporary hysteria surrounding copyright, that the cropped face of Lenna was actually a flagrant copyright violation which has been perpetrated in academic papers for decades.