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It wouldn't be controversial to say that humans are more prone to see green than blue or red, or more interested in faces than in leaves, so I hope graphics res
by sillysaurus2 13y ago
It wouldn't be controversial to say that humans are more prone to see green than blue or red, or more interested in faces than in leaves, so I hope graphics researchers won't be offended by the truth that preserving details in naked bodies is a wholly necessary benchmark for a compression algorithm, just like it is for a painting.
- skybrian 13y agoOkay, let me put it differently: I'm not an image compression researcher, but I find it hard to believe that you actually need pictures of naked women to judge compression quality. Pictures of people, sure, and maybe even showing some skin. But beach photos would work fine for that, as did the cropped picture of Lena back in the day. So: citation needed.
- aa0 13y agoYou're such a brave white knight aren't you.
- ibisum 13y agoThe human body has evolved to detect nudity. Its one of the most important features of our vision system. To ignore this fact in vision research, for what are essentially moral, not scientific reasons, is to limit the research to a region outside of what we've evolved into ..