Computer Vision News - February 2022

8 Presentation from WACV 2022 AUDITING SALIENCY CROPPING ALGORITHMS Abeba Birhane just completed her PhD in Cognitive Science at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin & Lero. Last month, she presented a paper at WACV 2022 in Hawaii, marking the first audit of saliency cropping algorithms carried out on three major tech platforms: Twitter, Apple, and Google. She speaks to us about this important and timely work. In this work, Abeba collaborated with computer vision researchers to carry out a number of experiments to test male-gaze-like artifacts and racial bias in cropped images on Twitter , Apple and Google .