Twitter brings smart auto-cropping for your photo posts with the help of machine learning
7 years, 2 months ago

Twitter brings smart auto-cropping for your photo posts with the help of machine learning

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Dubbed smart auto-cropping, this feature of Twitter can be helpful for those images where there may not be facial images. Keeping this in mind, Twitter has come up with a smart auto-cropping features that uses the power of machine learning to frame the right bits of shared photographs. Dubbed ‘smart auto-cropping’, this can be helpful for those images where there may not be facial images and could be scenic view or an animal. Meanwhile, Twitter is expected to come with a new feature where users would be able to shoot videos from the app itself, just like Snapchat.

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Twitter's Photo-Cropping Algorithm Favors Young, Thin Females
3 years, 7 months ago

Twitter's Photo-Cropping Algorithm Favors Young, Thin Females

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In May, Twitter said that it would stop using an artificial intelligence algorithm found to favor white and female faces when auto-cropping images. The top entry, contributed by Bogdan Kulynych, a graduate student in computer security at EPFL in Switzerland, shows how Twitter's image-cropping algorithm favors thinner and younger-looking people. "Basically, the more thin, young, and female an image is, …

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