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Color pornographic image detection based on color-saliency preserved mixture deformable part model

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To utilize the rich semantic information of sexual organs, we propose a new framework for pornographic image detection based on sexual organ detectors. Traditional sexual organ detectors are built on shape features. Since the color distribution of sexual organ in same pose is consistent, color is an important visual clue to represent sexual organs. We use color attribute to describe the local color of sexual organs and concatenate it with histogram of oriented gradients based shape feature to represent sexual organs. Based on the concatenated feature, we train sexual organ detectors by the color-saliency preserved mixture deformable part model (CPMDPM). We detect pornographic images sequentially with sexual organ detectors. In experiments, the optimal part number of the deformable part model is chosen experimentally. We evaluate the performance of each CPMDPM based sexual organ detector, which is superior over the shape feature based detector. The proposed pornographic detection method is superior over methods based on low level features of skin regions, bag of words model and color incorporated SIFT features etc.

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under, Grant 61571354, 61671385 and 61201291, in part by National High-Level Talents Special Support Program under Grant CS31117200001,in part by Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University under Grant IRT13088,in part by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 158201.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Chunna Tian, Xiangnan Zhang & Xinbo Gao

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, China

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Tian, C., Zhang, X., Wei, W. et al. Color pornographic image detection based on color-saliency preserved mixture deformable part model. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 6629–6645 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4576-2

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