Twitter users now automatically select picture images to determine their most interesting point . The technology was developed from eye - tracking software , which can use neural networks and other algorithms to predict what they arrive at . Once a user 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.