Re:The Lenna story
by Caligula on Saturday April 17, 2010 @07:35PM
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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.
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Re:The Lenna story
by RodgerTheGreat on Saturday April 17, 2010 @08:09PM
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Is it sad that my first exposure to Lenna was the LenPEG "compression" algorithm?
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.
or tsukuba(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clz/Exam1Real.jpg) in stereovision