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The Lena image is (was?) featured quite prominently in the OpenCV docs and tutorials. Kinda weird it only now goes noticed.
It’s been noticed for ages. This is not the first time the issue has been discussed
In a 1999 essay on reasons for the male predominance in computer science, applied mathematician Dianne P. O’Leary wrote: .
Suggestive pictures used in lectures on image processing … convey the message that the lecturer caters to the males only. For example, it is amazing that the “Lena” pin-up image is still used as an example in courses and published as a test image in journals today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#Criticism
That’s 25 years ago…
It’s been banned from Nature for a while now