Here's how
Twitter uses artificial intelligence to
crop your photos
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The
artificial intelligence that crops
your Twitter photos is getting a lot smarter.*
In a new
blog post,
Twitter machine learning researchers Zehan Wang and Lucas Theis describe the company's new approach to cropping
your photos into preview thumbnails.
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Twitter has been working on this tool for a while, but the post is the first detailed description of researchers' methods and process. The feature is currently rolling out to all
Twitter users, and aims to put an end to awkwardly cropped thumbnails.*
Previously, when deciding which part of
your images to display as the preview image,
Twitter looked for the most prominent face. For pictures containing no faces,
Twitter displayed the center of the image. If you've ever seen an awkward thumbnail of a cat's neck or a white wall, that process was responsible.*
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