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It's not. The article mentioned that she wants her likeness retired.

• IshKebab 3y ago
  That quote is from a documentary called "Losing Lenna". Pretty clear that they asked for it and she agreed. It wasn't unprompted. In any case, she's clearly not offended by it. Can we hear from any actual women who were offended by this image and decided not to go into the computer vision/graphics field because of it? IMO it's quite patronising of men to think that women are so fragile they can't handle a photo of an attractive women being used for benchmarking. Same as how it's insulting of white people to think that the racism that black people care about is innocent use of the word "master". I don't know why people can't concentrate on actual issues. I guess this change is easy to do and makes people think they've achieved something.
  • GaryNumanVevo 3y ago
    As someone who used to work in an imaging research group, we quit using Lena years ago specifically because the women researchers in our group brought it up. We came to the decision to retire it and move on. It's a small change, but it's important to promote an environment where everyone feels comfortable and is able to do their best work. I can't quite understand why people waste their time debating a technically inferior test image.
    • IshKebab 3y ago
      Fair enough. I don't think anyone is really arguing to keep it any more than they're arguing `master` is a better name than `main`. Just debating the reason for getting rid of it. If it really offends women then I think it's fine to retire it for that reason (in addition to the technical reasons).