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Not everything is about gender, sexism, feminism, or chauvinism. There are very few things in the world that are not somehow associated with male vs. female in
by yason 12y ago
Not everything is about gender, sexism, feminism, or chauvinism. There are very few things in the world that are not somehow associated with male vs. female in an objectively equal way. The Lena in question is just an image with a long tradition. Anyone can find and use a male image for his/her own image compression tests if s/he wants to. It's not a statement to use Lena instead.
- j2kun 12y agoJust because something is a tradition does not make it a good tradition, nor does it justify continuing the tradition.
- malandrew 12y agoTrue, but you still need to balance the relative merits of continuing versus discontinuing the tradition. There is a very real loss from discontinuing the tradition in question without first augmenting references for many of the algorithms that use Lena with other standard reference images. That's a real and immediate loss. Try a different strategy: offer a better alternative that makes it so practitioners not only don't notices the loss of Lena in common usage, but instead overwhelmingly favor alternatives. Create a better product.
- j2kun 12y agoReal comparisons of algorithms do not operate on a single image, but large suites of images, where the results are computed as averages. Changing the dataset by removing one image is unlikely to be a "very real loss." Alternatives exist, and AFAIK Lena is just used as a "canonical" example to use as a nice picture (like the Zachary Karate Club network).
- andreasvc 12y agoI understood the complaint to be not about male vs. female, but about the fact that the original is a pornographic picture from Playboy magazine.
- malandrew 12y ago> the [uncropped] original is a pornographic picture from Playboy magazine FTFY