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Twitter says it doesn't know why its image-cropping algorithm prioritizes white faces

Twitter's image-cropping algorithm came under fire for racism over the weekend because of an apparent bias against Black faces. The algorithm is part of the website's attempt to automatically ...
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Dropbox’s Lepton lossless image compression really uses a ‘middle-out’ algorithm

It’s not Pied Piper, but there are similarities. The “middle-out” algorithm that has its roots in the most infamous (and probably funniest) scene in HBO’s “Silicon Valley” may have been fictional, but ...
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The Image Matching Algorithm Basing on Homographic Constraints for Marine Surveying, Mapping and 3D Reconstruction

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 97: Research, Monitoring, and Engineering of Coastal, Port, and Marine Systems (WINTER 2019), pp. 184-190 (7 pages) In the marine surveying and mapping, ...
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The Geopolitics of Internet of Things-based Smart City Environments: Digital Twin and Image Recognition Technologies, Virtual Simulation and Spatial Data Visualization Tools ...

The objective of this paper is to systematically review digital twin simulation tools, cognitive computing systems, and urban big data. The findings and analyses highlight that spatial computing and ...
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The creation of the algorithm that made the first black hole image possible was led by MIT grad student Katie Bouman

The development of the algorithm that made it possible to create the first image ever of a black hole was led by computer scientist Katie Bouman while she was still a graduate student at MIT. Bouman ...