Friday 23 April 2010

Question for Apr 23

The lady shown in the visual was a special guest at the 50th anniversary conference of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) held in 1997. The researchers were thrilled to meet her and get her autograph.

Identify the lady.

6 comments:

AJ said...

the centerfold image lady. The image is used as the standard test for image compression etc.

PS said...

The woman who's playboy playmate picture (when she was younger obviously :-p) became the standard reference picture for testing image compression algorithms.

Dev said...

Lenny (or Penny) from the playboy centerfold that's used as a standard photo for research papers in image analysis.

Nikhil said...

Lena. Of the famous Lena image which is used as a standard image in Image processing.

Angelus said...

She is the granddaughter of the person who first invented the Camera Obscura, Jonah Kodak.

The Answer said...

Lena Söderberg, a Swedish model whose image is probably the most widely used test image for all sorts of image processing algorithms (such as compression and denoising) and related scientific publications.

Image correctly processed by Anshul, Pravin, Dev and Nikhil. Congrats !!