KaggleX Final Project Presentation with Habon Issa | Kaggle

About the project:
Twitter once automatically cropped user-uploaded images to fit a specific aspect ratio. However, Twitter users noticed that this automatic cropping (which is saliency-based) tended to favor certain groups of individuals, for example those with lighter skin. My project quantifies this bias and builds upon the paper ‘Auditing saliency cropping algorithms’ by Birthane, Prabhu and Whaley. My notebook: 1) creates thousands of images with ordered pairs of two individuals of different self-identified racial/ethnic/gender backgrounds 2) runs these generated …

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