![]() ![]() Image processing and he needed some standard images for it. Pratt, now of Sun Microsystems, who was writing a book on Often refer to as "The baboon image." The "unknown researcher" was Dr. Lenna and several other images (including the Mandril) which people System programmer in the Image Processing Lab (IPL) which distributed I worked for 5 years ('78 - '83) at the Image Processing Institute as a In October 29, 1999, I received an email from Chuck McNanis telling us that the "unknown researcher" who scanned the "Lenna" image was Dr. Image processing research community gravitated toward an image that they found attractive. It is not surprising that the (mostly male) Second, the Lena image is a picture of an attractive woman. Of testing various image processing algorithms. Two reason was stated in " A Note on Lena"įirst, the Lenna image contains a nice mixture of detail, flat regions, shading, and texture that do a good job Past 25 years, no image has been more important in the history of imaging andĮlectronic communications, and today the mysterious Lenna is considered the First In which pictures can be manipulated and transmitted electronically. Images of the Playmate have been used as the industry standard for testing ways To use as a test image for digital image compression research. In by an unknown researcher at the University of Southern California We know that in the early Seventies Lenna's Playboy centerfold was scanned When and where the Lenna picture creates? That was the first she knew of the use of that picture in the computer business. Was pleasantly amused by what had happened to her picture. In 1988, she was interviewed by some Swedish computer related publication, and she Lena Soderberg (ne Sjooblom) was last reported living in her native Sweden, happily married with three kids and a job with the state liquor monopoly. (In English, Lena is sometimes spelled Lenna, to encourage proper pronounciation.) Lenna is the spelling in Playboy, Lena is the Swedish spelling of her name. Recently found on the Internet, which includes the recent picture of Lenna inįrom the pression FAQ, we can find that "Lenna" or "Lena" is a digitized Playboy centerfold, from November 1972. However, very few people have seen the original picture and know ![]() Recognized as one of the most important events in the history of electronic Or compression has most likely used the picture of "Lenna" or "Lena" in theirĮxperiments or project assignments, as the Lenna picture is one of the most Engineers, researchers, and students who are familiar with image processing ![]()
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