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Re:The Rest of the Lenna Story by sillysaurus2 on Saturday August 31, 2013 @11:29PM (#6309019)
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.
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Re:The Rest of the Lenna Story by skybrian on Sunday September 01, 2013 @03:01AM (#6309379)
Okay, 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.
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Re:The Rest of the Lenna Story by aa0 on Sunday September 01, 2013 @05:11AM (#6309600)
You're such a brave white knight aren't you.
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