Ask HN: Twitter using facial recognition for image previews?

8 points by cmacpher 12y ago ↗ HN

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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michaelmior 12y ago ↗

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

http://cloudinary.com/blog/face_detection_based_cropping

sabalaba 12y ago ↗

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