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A Novel Scheme for Intelligent Recognition of Pornographic Images
Harmful contents are rising in internet day by day and this motivates the
essence of more research in fast and reliable obscene and immoral material
filtering. Pornographic image recognition is an important component in each
filtering system. In this paper, a new approach for detecting pornographic
images is introduced. In this approach, two new features are suggested. These
two features in combination with other simple traditional features provide
decent difference between porn and non-porn images. In addition, we applied
fuzzy integral based information fusion to combine MLP (Multi-Layer Perceptron)
and NF (Neuro-Fuzzy) outputs. To test the proposed method, performance of
system was evaluated over 18354 download images from internet. The attained
precision was 93% in TP and 8% in FP on training dataset, and 87% and 5.5% on
test dataset. Achieved results verify the performance of proposed system versus
other related works
Smart Content Recognition from Images Using a Mixture of Convolutional Neural Networks
With rapid development of the Internet, web contents become huge. Most of the
websites are publicly available, and anyone can access the contents from
anywhere such as workplace, home and even schools. Nevertheless, not all the
web contents are appropriate for all users, especially children. An example of
these contents is pornography images which should be restricted to certain age
group. Besides, these images are not safe for work (NSFW) in which employees
should not be seen accessing such contents during work. Recently, convolutional
neural networks have been successfully applied to many computer vision
problems. Inspired by these successes, we propose a mixture of convolutional
neural networks for adult content recognition. Unlike other works, our method
is formulated on a weighted sum of multiple deep neural network models. The
weights of each CNN models are expressed as a linear regression problem learned
using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS). Experimental results demonstrate that the
proposed model outperforms both single CNN model and the average sum of CNN
models in adult content recognition.Comment: To be published in LNEE, Code: github.com/mundher/NSF
Automating the construction of scene classifiers for content-based video retrieval
This paper introduces a real time automatic scene classifier within content-based video retrieval. In our envisioned approach end users like documentalists, not image processing experts, build classifiers interactively, by simply indicating positive examples of a scene. Classification consists of a two stage procedure. First, small image fragments called patches are classified. Second, frequency vectors of these patch classifications are fed into a second classifier for global scene classification (e.g., city, portraits, or countryside). The first stage classifiers can be seen as a set of highly specialized, learned feature detectors, as an alternative to letting an image processing expert determine features a priori. We present results for experiments on a variety of patch and image classes. The scene classifier has been used successfully within television archives and for Internet porn filtering
Pornographic Image Recognition via Weighted Multiple Instance Learning
In the era of Internet, recognizing pornographic images is of great
significance for protecting children's physical and mental health. However,
this task is very challenging as the key pornographic contents (e.g., breast
and private part) in an image often lie in local regions of small size. In this
paper, we model each image as a bag of regions, and follow a multiple instance
learning (MIL) approach to train a generic region-based recognition model.
Specifically, we take into account the region's degree of pornography, and make
three main contributions. First, we show that based on very few annotations of
the key pornographic contents in a training image, we can generate a bag of
properly sized regions, among which the potential positive regions usually
contain useful contexts that can aid recognition. Second, we present a simple
quantitative measure of a region's degree of pornography, which can be used to
weigh the importance of different regions in a positive image. Third, we
formulate the recognition task as a weighted MIL problem under the
convolutional neural network framework, with a bag probability function
introduced to combine the importance of different regions. Experiments on our
newly collected large scale dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the
proposed method, achieving an accuracy with 97.52% true positive rate at 1%
false positive rate, tested on 100K pornographic images and 100K normal images.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
Fast and Effective Bag-of-Visual-Word Model to Pornographic Images Recognition Using the FREAK Descriptor
Recently, the Bag of Visual Word (BoVW) has gained enormous popularity between researchers to object recognition. Pornographic image recognition with respect to computational complexity, appropriate accuracy, and memory consumption is a major challenge in the applications with time constraints such as the internet pornography filtering. Most of the existing researches based on the Bow, using the very popular SIFT and SURF algorithms to description and match detected keypoints in the image. The main problem of these methods is high computational complexity due to constructing the high dimensional feature vectors. This research proposed a BoVW based model by adopting very fast and simple binary descriptor FREAK to speed-up pornographic recognition process. Meanwhile, the keypoints are detected in the ROI of images which improves the recognition speed due to eliminating many noise keypoints placed in the image background. Finally, in order to find the most representational visual-vocabulary, different vocabularies are generated from size 150 to 500 for BoVW. Compared with the similar works, the experimental results show that the proposed model has gained remarkable improvement in the terms of computational complexity
Fast pornographic image recognition using compact holistic features and multi-layer neural network
The paper presents an alternative fast pornographic image recognition using compact holistic features and multi-layer neural network (MNN). The compact holistic features of pornographic images, which are invariant features against pose and scale, is extracted by shape and frequency analysis on pornographic images under skin region of interests (ROIs). The main objective of this work is to design pornographic recognition scheme which not only can improve performances of existing methods (i.e., methods based on skin probability, scale invariant feature transform, eigenporn, and Multilayer-Perceptron and Neuro-Fuzzy (MP-NF)) but also can works fast for recognition. The experimental outcome display that our proposed system can improve 0.3% of accuracy and reduce 6.60% the false negative rate (FNR) of the best existing method (skin probability and eigenporn on YCbCr, SEP), respectively. Additionally, our proposed method also provides almost similar robust performances to the MP-NF on large size dataset. However, our proposed method needs short recognition time by about 0.021 seconds per image for both tested datasets
Pornographic Image Recognition Based on Skin Probability and Eigenporn of Skin ROIs Images
The paper proposed a pornographic image recognition using skin probability and principle component analysis (PCA) on YCbCr color space. The pornographic image recognition is defined as a process to classify the image containing and showing genital elements of human body from any kinds of images. This process is hard to be performed because the images have large variability due to poses, lighting, and background variations. The skin probability and holistic feature, which is extracted by YCbCr skin segmentation and PCA, is employed to handle those variability problems. The function of skin segmentation is to determine skin ROI image and skin probability. While the function of PCA is to extract eigenporn of the skin ROIs images and by using the eigenporns the holistic features are determined. The main aim of this research is to optimize the accuracy and false rejection rate of the skin probability and fusion descriptor based recognition system. The experimental result shows that the proposed method can increase the accuracy by about 12% and decrease the FPR and FNR by about 16%, respectively. The proposed method also works fast for recognition, which requires 1.3.second per image.
Criminalising the possession of extreme pornography: Sword or shield?
Copyright © 2011 Vathek Publishing, Ltd. Shared with permission of the publisher.This article examines the reasons for the introduction of the extreme pornography provisions in s. 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, whether the provisions can be justified, whether they meet their goals and the problems they raise. It is argued that the provisions should be seen as an expression of benign perfectionism, grounded in respect for individuals, rather than repressive paternalism. The impact of the law is assessed with reference to recent cases and the author considers whether the fears expressed at the time the legislation was passed have been borne out in practice
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