Comments on: Google’s Orkut filters sexually-explicit photos http://www.enlighten3d.com/2008/10/28/googles-orkut-filters-sexually-explicit-photos/ An expert blog on computer vision and 3D graphics Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:08:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Joshua Koopferstock http://www.enlighten3d.com/2008/10/28/googles-orkut-filters-sexually-explicit-photos/#comment-219 Joshua Koopferstock Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:09:19 +0000 http://www.enlighten3d.com/?p=204#comment-219 A hard problem indeed, and one for which it is unlikely that computer vision will ever solve with 100% accuracy, if for no other reason than people in general are unable to fully agree on what content should be filtered and what is ok (comments on our Polar Rose article a few weeks ago confirm this). That being said, a computer vision-based filter could be created that would work in enough cases (or, perhaps, in enough of the more "extreme" cases) that it would prove worthwhile to implement for a company like Google. A hard problem indeed, and one for which it is unlikely that computer vision will ever solve with 100% accuracy, if for no other reason than people in general are unable to fully agree on what content should be filtered and what is ok (comments on our Polar Rose article a few weeks ago confirm this).

That being said, a computer vision-based filter could be created that would work in enough cases (or, perhaps, in enough of the more “extreme” cases) that it would prove worthwhile to implement for a company like Google.

]]> By: Allan http://www.enlighten3d.com/2008/10/28/googles-orkut-filters-sexually-explicit-photos/#comment-218 Allan Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:39:36 +0000 http://www.enlighten3d.com/?p=204#comment-218 Filtering out sexually explicit photos sounds like an interesting challenge and problem. I wonder if it can detect the difference between a photo of a beautiful girl walking down the beach in a bikini vs. a photo of a stripper about to remove the last articles of clothing on stage? Fascinating problem. Filtering out sexually explicit photos sounds like an interesting challenge and problem. I wonder if it can detect the difference between a photo of a beautiful girl walking down the beach in a bikini vs. a photo of a stripper about to remove the last articles of clothing on stage? Fascinating problem.

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