Image identification?

Post by **ayu** » 15 May 2010, 07:21

I want to try out a little experiment.
So here's the idea ...

I want to set up a Tor relay, and then monitor all the traffic that goes through the relay as an exit node. All the links that goes to any kind of image is grabbed an run through a special program or library that somehow identifies it as a pornographic picture.

The idea is to identify child porn and report the IP where it is located.
Of course this would create a lot of false positives for legal porn, but it's a good start.

Does anyone know of such an application/library that can be used?
I read that Microsoft is working on something like this, but it doesn't look like it will be publicly available (which is weird since it would make it easier if more people were allowed to help, but that's just how MS works).

Post by **Big-E** » 15 May 2010, 13:34

Identifying child porn would involve working with child porn which requires you to have in your possession child porn. Something I wouldn't advise.

While your ambitions are worthy, there is so much red tape associated I wouldn't touch the project or one might become a false positive.

leetnigga · Post by **leetnigga** » 15 May 2010, 13:50

Ah yes, the old "but it's training data for my neural network to detect child pornography and catch bad guys!". It has been tried before cats, it's no excuse.

Big-E: cats is talking about detecting general adult content, not child porn specifically.

Post by **ayu** » 15 May 2010, 14:00

well, one could have "regular" porn for the image recognition, and then when a "not so legal one" appears, one could just check the link (with a lot of proxies) "yep it's the real deal" and then send an anonymous mail to some anti child abuse organization with the links and some "info"

How the hell does such an image recognition work btw?

Been thinking about it but not sure what I'm supposed to google for =P

Does it have a "people shagging in the picture" mode? And maybe a "filter out regular people smiling in the picture" mode?

is it... magic ... perhaps?

l0ngb1t · Post by **l0ngb1t** » 15 May 2010, 20:32

mmmmm it's kinda new for me
but you can make a script that search the image on tineye.com (thanks for one of the member but don't remember who told me abt it)
it;s a backward search where you upload the image or provide a link and it tell's you on what site it does exist
then you can compare the site with a black list or smthg

i have no idea if it's possible

Post by **Lundis** » 16 May 2010, 01:10

I guess computer vision might be what you should google.

Post by **ayu** » 16 May 2010, 03:25

Dumb of me to not think about this ... -.-

If I were to do something like this, it would be my IP that would show up on all the sites where the links go (duh).

Guess we'll leave this to the guys who have permission to do it, operation canceled!