saliency
Americannoun
PLURAL
salienciesEtymology
Origin of saliency
Example Sentences
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Beyond policy details, Amber Roessner, a 41-year-old University of Tennessee professor who wrote “Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign,” said Carter’s broader political identity from the 1970s has “regained some saliency.”
From Seattle Times
The "saliency algorithm" decided how images would be cropped in Twitter previews, before being clicked on to open at full size.
From BBC
Twitter says it started using what it called the “saliency algorithm” in 2018 to keep the size of photos consistent across the platform.
From Seattle Times
The problem was with its "saliency algorithm" which it released in 2018 to crop images.
From BBC
As usual, the results were scattershot in their saliency and applicability.
From The Verge
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