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Re:The Lenna story by Caligula on Saturday April 17, 2010 @07:35PM (#1273971)
This 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.
Re:The Lenna story by RodgerTheGreat on Saturday April 17, 2010 @08:09PM (#1274018)
Is it sad that my first exposure to Lenna was the LenPEG "compression" algorithm?

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html

Re:The Lenna story by SlyShy on Saturday April 17, 2010 @07:49PM (#1273993)
As stated, it really is the defacto image used in image processing communities. Much like the Utah Teapot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot), which you might recognize from using 3DSMax or similar software.
Re:The Lenna story by phillaf on Sunday April 18, 2010 @12:58AM (#1274375)
or tsukuba(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clz/Exam1Real.jpg) in stereovision