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mox to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

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Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

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mox to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
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    It’s not like they were using the uncropped centerfold. There’s nothing wrong with the headshot. It’s a woman in a hat.

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      But the image is from a photoshoot for playboy so its inherently dirty and offensive, even if they only use the cropped version. /s

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        Well, according to the Wikipedia article that’s exactly the criticism (but without sarcasm).

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          it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard

          This is the part I don’t get. How has the picture not changed with the times due to camera advances.

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            Same reason the length of a meter hasn’t changed despite measurement advances. It was used as a benchmark.

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        You were born out of a vagina. You are inherently dirty and offensive.

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          1•1 year ago

          So does that mean my son is not? (He was a C-section)

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            He is pure and clean

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      4•1 year ago

      Her hair is showing, this offends Muslim engineers.

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