Twitter has largely abandoned an image-cropping algorithm after determining the automated system was biased. Some users complained it had a preference toward showing pictures of white people in ...

The researchers on the project, Hany Farid and Eric Kee, designed their algorithm to be able to rank images from 1 through 5 in order to determine if it is slightly modified or highly edited.

After social media exploded with allegations that Twitter's image-cropping algorithm had a racial bias, the company said it investigated and ultimately decided to drop automated cropping.

Twitter‘s algorithm for automatically cropping images attached to tweets often doesn’t focus on the important content in them. A bother, for sure, but it seems like a minor one on the surface.

After years of stagnation, their breakthrough was an algorithm that could spot faces in an image in real time. Indeed, the so-called Viola-Jones algorithm was so fast and simple that it was soon ...

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