Ask HN: Twitter using facial recognition for image previews?

Posted by cmacpher on Friday May 02, 2014 @03:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Checking my twitter feed, a new tweet with an image appears(bottom). It previews the middle of the image. On refresh the image preview is now cut around her face. Is twitter using facial recognition for better image previews?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/owxk49rksp6fcsg/twitter-screen.png

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Re:Ask HN: Twitter using facial recognition for image previews? by sabalaba on Saturday May 03, 2014 @01:47PM (#7691670)

Cropping around the face is simply facial detection, not recognition.

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Re:Ask HN: Twitter using facial recognition for image previews? by michaelmior on Friday May 02, 2014 @06:24PM (#7688545)

This wouldn't surprise me. Cloudinary has offered a service that does this for a while.

http://cloudinary.com/blog/face_detection_based_cropping

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