Lenna Backstory

 

            

 

The best resource on the Web for the history of the Lenna Image is www.lenna.org.  The site covers the history of the creation of the digital Lenna image and its subsequent use as an image quality test icon.  Links are provided to the original 512x512 pixel digital image. An image search for Lena/Lenna will return links to many technical applications such as those presented above that will demonstrate its widespread application.  A search of the Web for Lenna articles will also turn up a long list of controversies in the scientific literature related to the use of this image.

 

 

References

 

Devillard, N.  Image processing: the Lenna story. http://ndevilla.free.fr/lena/index.html  (Accessed: 24 February 2010).

 

Footprints  Lena Sjooblom.  http://everything2.com/title/Lena+Sj%25F6%25F6blom   (Accessed: 24 February 2010), Everything2, July 30, 2001.

 

Hutchinson, J.  Culture, Communication, and an Information Age Madonna. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/pcs_mirror/may_june01.pdf  IEEE Professional Communication Society Newsletter, 45(3), May/June, 2001.

 

Kandangath, A.  A brief history of Lena (Lenna). http://www.ecogito.net/articles/lena.html  (Accessed: 24 February 2010).

 

Lee, I.  A complete story of Lena.  http://media.skku.ac.kr/story/lena.html  (Accessed: 24 February 2010).

 

Munson, D. C. Jr.  A note on Lena. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/editor.html  (Accessed: 24 February 2010), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1996.

 

Playboy  The search for Lena.  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/playboy_backups/lena.html  (Accessed: 24 February 2010).

 

Thompson, B. J.  Editorial. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/optical.html  (Accessed: 24 February 2010).  Optical Engineering, 31(1):5, 1992.

 

Wikipedia  Lena Soderberg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Soderberg  (Accessed: 24 February 2010).