Android Police: Twitter is using neural networks to improve photo cropping

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Twitter is using neural networks to improve photo cropping

Twitter doesn't show full photos when they appear in the stream—you need to tap to expand the whole image. Unfortunately, the cropped version of the photo is often framed awkwardly because it's just the middle section of the image. Twitter is solving that problem with a neural network that can understand the composition of your images.

The neural network is looking for so-called "salient" image regions. Scientists have studied what people consider salient in images for years using eye-tracking technology.

Twitter is using neural networks to improve photo cropping was written by the awesome team at Android Police.