The following year, engineers at USC used the picture to test a new piece of image-compression software. It worked.
Decades later, the "Lena" image has persisted in labs. read.medium.com/TJdh1wh
Maddie Zug, then a high school junior, was one of a handful of girls in a mostly male AI class told to use the Lena image in a coding class assignment. read.medium.com/TJdh1wh