You know when Mom tells people what we do at work and its usually not quite accurate like when she says that Clint heads up a counter-terrorist unit. Or that Chad is governor of Texas. Or that I'm head of research at Penn. Or that Samantha is ...wait, I don't know what she says about Samantha or Trevor. Anyway, she can now tell people that I'm an internationally published Playboy image analysis expert. One of my articles was recently accepted for an image processing journal in our field and one of the examples I used was the well-known Playboy picture of Lena Soderberg---often referred to as `Lenna'. Don't worry---it's only a headshot. You can see it in Fig. 5 (along with the rest of my article) here. You can read about the history of the Lenna photograph in the image analysis field on Wikipedia. Oh, and in case you're interested, I give a shout out to BYU in my biographical sketch at the end of the article.
18 comments:
Yes! First comment. Sweet.
dude you should do an image analysis of yourself wearing a brazilian thong. that would be sweet.
I knew there was favoritism here. I post a post and get diddly squat forever and you post and immediately there is comments. What's up with that? And yes, I'm being a martyr.
Sweet, I'm already at four posts.
Dude, the Brazilian thong wouldn't work because then people wouldn't focus on the actual theoretical contribution if you know what I'm saying.
Dang, Mom, don't cry. Or wait, maybe you should. Then you could write that in a blog and get more comments. ;-)
Wait mom...I left a comment! Are you saying I'm diddly squat?! And I thought your post was way better than Nicks. Not to mention you didnt' leave 4 comments on your OWN post. That's just sad.
Samantha - I am sorry. I meant to say "diddly squat forever" (except for Samantha - I can always count on her")I forgot to include that. And thanks for liking my post better than Nick's. And just for the record, I tell people exactly what Samantha and Trevor do - I can't help it if I have to make up something for the rest of you. TIC
Dang 9 posts---that must be a record or something.
Ok, first of all, i did not leave a comment on Grace's post because of the mental scarring that remains after having read it.
second, of course there will be a record number of comments for a post including a picture from playboy, obviously it brought me out of my comment hiatus.
Good point, Mike. That's why the picture was adopted in the first place by the medical image analysis community.
Mental scaring? I thought is was visual utopia!
Pure Country was visual utopia.
wha happen?
So, why do you (stick) have the profile picture you do? Is it to signify your Friday workday and you're consequent absence? Or is it your unquestionable fealty to BYU as represented by the blue sweatshirt? Or maybe it is the metallic "wooden dummy", i.e. coat hanger, to remind you to fruitlessly train for the unconquerable power of the ten tigers.
And what about yours, Mom? Who is Santa? I have a joke here but I'll keep it to myself.
And Mike: were you able to finally make it to a bathroom?
What? The picture was taken on the front row of Beauty and the Beast in New York on Broadway (starring Donny Osmond as Gaston). Since I met Donny Osmond at BYU, I thought it only fitting that I mention BYU. Or something like that.
Actually I was going to put the picture of me with my upper torso baby-oiled glistening in the sun but Kim didn't want anybody contacting me about possible modeling jobs.
Nick, He's talking about the blue sweatshirt hanging on your cubicle picture for your online profile, not your publication profile picture. Goof ball.
Yeah, I was kind of lost on Nick's response - I just sort of nodded my head without really understanding what he was talking about. I thought there might be a joke in the comment that I didn't get but didn't want to sound unknowledgeable.
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