Losing Lena(losinglena.com)
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Losing Lena
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> Is it really putting off prospective female engineers?
Well, at least it's an easy theory to test. Is there an unusual dearth of female engineers in the image processing field, compared to other computing specialties? If there was, I'm pretty sure we would have noticed.
By the way, even as a guy, I do find the overuse of this particular image as a "standard" for the field to be somewhat distasteful, or at least unfortunate. But this is also something where people can have different views.
Well, at least it's an easy theory to test. Is there an unusual dearth of female engineers in the image processing field, compared to other computing specialties? If there was, I'm pretty sure we would have noticed.
By the way, even as a guy, I do find the overuse of this particular image as a "standard" for the field to be somewhat distasteful, or at least unfortunate. But this is also something where people can have different views.
Not really, image processing is extremely math-heavy, and we know there's an issue there.
I agree, the image is an anachronism, but IMHO, can be ridiculed as such.
I agree, the image is an anachronism, but IMHO, can be ridiculed as such.
Wikipedia also has a page about the picture, its history, current usage and criticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
I would think today's sasy women could just scoff at it.
I'm sure there are more pressing and direct issues related to diversity and equality, though on the other hand, there are probably much better images to use to use as a standard, if only on a technical level.
But benchmarks would have to be rerun for all the algorithms.