Twitter faced some criticism last year after some users noticed that its image cropping algorithm appeared to show bias, with a preference of showing images of white people. In a new post on Twitter’s ...

Many commercial image cropping models utilize saliency maps (also known as gaze estimation) to identify the most critical areas within an image. In this study, researchers developed innovative ...

Twitter will change its automated image cropping feature after users complained that it was biased. The company says it’s working to “decrease our reliance” on automatic cropping so users can ...

Twitter has quantified the extent to which its image cropping algorithm was racially biased, admitting that white individuals were prioritised over Black individuals when images were algorithmically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twitter logo displayed on the screen of a smartphone and a tablet in Toulouse (AFP via Getty Images) Twitter is scrapping its ...

Last month, a bunch of users tweeted about how Twitter’s image cropping algorithm seems to have a bias towards fair-skinned people. When users posted uncropped images containing both light and ...

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. However ...

In an interesting development in the wake of a bias controversy over its cropping algorithm, Twitter has said it’s considering giving users decision-making power over how tweet previews look, saying ...

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 ...