Adult Content Recognition from Images Using a Mixture of Convolutional Neural Networks

Mundher Al-Shabi, Tee Connie, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh

Published 2016-12-30Version 1

With rapid development of the Internet, the web contents become huge. Most of the websites are publicly available and anyone can access the contents everywhere such as workplace, home and even schools. Nev-ertheless, 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. 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 learnt 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.