Then-University of Southern California assistant professor Alexander Sawchuk was searching for an image to use for a colleague’s conference paper. Sawchuk, who then worked at the Signal and Image Processing Institute (SIPI) in USC, needed an image with a particular set of properties for work related to signal and image processing—that is, until they happened upon a particular adult-oriented magazine.
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