• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
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A Novel System for Detecting Adult Images on the Internet


Abstract

As Internet usage has increased, the risk of adolescents being exposed to adult content and harmful information on the Internet has also risen. To help prevent adolescents accessing this content, a novel detection method for adult images is proposed. The proposed method involves three steps. First, the Image Of Interest (IOI) is extracted from the image background. Second, the IOI is distinguished from the segmented image using a novel weighting mask, and it is determined to be acceptable or unacceptable. Finally, the features (color and texture) of the IOI or original image are compared to a critical value; if they exceed that value then the image is deemed to be an adult image. A Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was performed to define this optimal critical value. And, the textural features are identified using a gray level co-occurrence matrix. The proposed method increased the precision level of detection by applying a novel weighting mask and a receiver operating characteristic curve. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, 2850 adult and non-adult images were used for experimentation.


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[IEEE Style]
J. Park, S. Park, Y. Shin, D. Jang, "A Novel System for Detecting Adult Images on the Internet," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 910-924, 2010. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2010.10.012.

[ACM Style]
Jae-Yong Park, Sang-Sung Park, Young-Geun Shin, and Dong-Sik Jang. 2010. A Novel System for Detecting Adult Images on the Internet. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 4, 5, (2010), 910-924. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2010.10.012.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:19891, title="A Novel System for Detecting Adult Images on the Internet", author="Jae-Yong Park and Sang-Sung Park and Young-Geun Shin and Dong-Sik Jang and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2010.10.012}, volume={4}, number={5}, year="2010", month={October}, pages={910-924}}