Have you ever wondered if you're white enough to appear in a thumbnail automatically cropped by Twitter? Well, wonder no more!
"Am I White Enough For Twitter?", or "mi white" for short, is meant as a criticism towards algorithmic racism and targets especially Twitter’s cropping algorithm, which often behaves in racially biased ways (if you don’t know what we’re talking about, click here)
mi white receives a picture as input and uses OpenCV to calculate it's crop in a purposefully bad way, exagerating a specific situation to expose algorithmic racial biases.
- Python 3
- Django (for Web Application)
- OpenCV 4 (compiled from font, to include Saliency module)
- Numpy
- Argparse (for Command Line Utility)
$ python3 mi_white -f <path of input image> -o <optional: path to save cropped image>