Twitter will now automatically crop picture previews to highlight their most interesting point. The new feature is rolling out in the U.S. and Canada today, with a global roll-out planned for later this year. Once a network was able to select the most interesting part of images of people, landscapes and objects, researchers attempted to make it work in real time. The process now uses "knowledge distillation" to simplify the cropping process, making it instantaneous.
Twitter will now automatically crop picture previews to highlight their most interesting point. The technology was developed from eye-tracking software, which can train neural networks and other algorithms to predict what users look at. Once a network was able to select the most interesting part of images of people, landscapes and objects, researchers attempted to make it work in real time. The process now uses "knowledge distillation" to simplify the cropping process, making it instantaneous.