Comments on: Pornographic Image Recognition Software Employed by Chinese Government http://visionwang.com/2009/06/20/pornographic-image-recognition-software-employed-by-chinese-government/ State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Technologies Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:35:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jai Pillai http://visionwang.com/2009/06/20/pornographic-image-recognition-software-employed-by-chinese-government/#comment-4866 Jai Pillai Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:52:41 +0000 http://visionwang.com/?p=846#comment-4866 The method seems to be relying too much on the skin detection part. I heard that it doesnt work for all races as the skin color changes. They should also start detecting key words and using them along with the vision techniques. The method seems to be relying too much on the skin detection part. I heard that it doesnt work for all races as the skin color changes. They should also start detecting key words and using them along with the vision techniques.

]]> By: Harry Wang http://visionwang.com/2009/06/20/pornographic-image-recognition-software-employed-by-chinese-government/#comment-2524 Harry Wang Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:02:15 +0000 http://visionwang.com/?p=846#comment-2524 Mosalam, Thanks for your insight. You bring up a good point. Yes, based on skin color and face detection heuristics, the problem of Pornographic Image Recognition is by no means solved. However, considering the problem is to block adult website for young kids, the technology in the paper (H. Rowley, Y. Jing, S. Baluja , Large Scale Image-Based Adult Content Filtering. in Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory & Applications 2006) should work to some extent because there is small probability that a young kid needs to do research on skin disease. Nevertheless, it is always good to extend the work to handle this problem in future computer vision research. Mosalam,

Thanks for your insight. You bring up a good point. Yes, based on skin color and face detection heuristics, the problem of Pornographic Image Recognition is by no means solved. However, considering the problem is to block adult website for young kids, the technology in the paper (H. Rowley, Y. Jing, S. Baluja , Large Scale Image-Based Adult Content Filtering. in Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Theory & Applications 2006) should work to some extent because there is small probability that a young kid needs to do research on skin disease.

Nevertheless, it is always good to extend the work to handle this problem in future computer vision research.

]]> By: Mosalam http://visionwang.com/2009/06/20/pornographic-image-recognition-software-employed-by-chinese-government/#comment-2426 Mosalam Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:05:55 +0000 http://visionwang.com/?p=846#comment-2426 The technical paper you've referred to, though interesting but it doesn't include enough empirical tests. For example what happens with a medical website that has some photos of skin diseases? Is the Chinese government going to block that kind of websites and make trouble for researchers? The technical paper you’ve referred to, though interesting but it doesn’t include enough empirical tests. For example what happens with a medical website that has some photos of skin diseases? Is the Chinese government going to block that kind of websites and make trouble for researchers?

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