IEEE will no longer accept Lena image in submitted papers
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The one on the right is a recent re-creation as the model is now in her late 60s.
Huh, I did not know that this image was supposed to be sexually suggestive.
I didn’t think it was sexual to that degree. Surely knowing it’s a cropped nude was part of the allure of reusing it.
Lena Forsén explicitly prefers to retire the picture, so this should be reason enough.
I happen to believe, though, that any and all information you release to the public is de facto no longer under anyone's control. This is the natural state of things and cannot be stopped, so a global optimum can only be reached in acknowledging this fact. Instead we create legal and bureaucratic fictions to try to manage and eliminate it, which only serves to disrupt and not to protect at all. I view the status quo on this (from this image to copyright) as counterproductive.
The diversity and inclusion argument: this tradition bears some similarity to locker room nudes, which don’t encourage equal participation between genders. The flipped scenario of posting a cropped Hasselhoff nude is not symmetrical. It sexualises the basic conversation about image algorithms, which is somewhat (but not entirely) besides the point. It made better sense when it was a closed group of mostly men.
It was only when others complained about the image, that she changed her support since it seemed to be offending some people.
Sadly, wokeness really represents a major setback in sexual freedom and escape from sexual repression. This is coming from someone who "identifies" as far left. wokeness is not a progressive or leftist position, but a judgement against other's choices, similar to wing-nut positions.
It was never digital to begin with
It is a picture of the Swedish model Lena Forsén, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker, cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine.
The first digitization came later
The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer.
The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512×512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders.