Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
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The Lena image is (was?) featured quite prominently in the OpenCV docs and tutorials. Kinda weird it only now goes noticed.
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...
It's been noticed for ages. This is not the first time the issue has been discussed
It's been banned from Nature for a while now