Goodbye, Lenna. Scientists were banned from using the legendary 1972 Playboy photo to illustrate articles

News Science and space 04-01-2024 at 10:16 comment
A fragment of a digitized portrait of Swedish model Lena Forsen, featured in a November 1972 Playboy spread, has been widely used in scientific papers to test and illustrate image processing algorithms (compression, noise reduction, blurring, etc.).

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