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Detecting Nudity With AI and OpenCV
mikejuk writes: AI gets put to some strange tasks. Not satisfied with the Turing test or inventing Skynet, Algorithmia have put together a nudity detector. Take one face detector from OpenCV and use it to find a nose. Take the skin color from the nose and then see what parts of the body are skin colored in the photo. If there is lot of skin color shout NUDE! Actually, the website lets you put in your own photos and classifies them into Rude or Good and gives you a confidence estimate. Obama with his top off — no problem but the familiar image processing test photo of Lena the pin up girl rates a 'Rude'.
Having worked in image processing and having made extensive use of the "standard" USC images including Lenna, I can assure you that the Lenna image was cropped at the shoulder. The Wikipedia article shows the image as encoded as an uncompressed 512x512 image.
USC errored in the image name, naming it "Lenna" when the model was correctly identified in the Playboy issue as "Lena Soderberg".
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
FTFA, "ascetically pleasing"... hehehe
I don't think that word means what you think it means. :)
ascetic: A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.
Although, I guess nudity would be the highest form asceticism...
"Helping to keep you two steps ahead of the Thought Police!"
Except that puritan daughters are far more likely to get pregnant as teens. Just saying.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
In 2008, the Washington Post reported on a University of Washington study which found that teenagers who received comprehensive sex education were 60% less likely to get pregnant than someone who received abstinence-only education.
A 2007 federal report found that abstinence-only programs have had "no impacts on rates of sexual abstinence," reported ThinkProgress.
In a 2011 study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers found a similar correlation between a state's commitment to abstinence education and pregnancy rates.
One of the most interesting and notable examples of this phenomenon comes out of Texas, which, according to ThinkProgess, has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country and a track record of strict abstinence-only education.
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
In San Francisco there was (is?) no law against nudity in public. Last year the Board of Supervisors (the SF equivalent to a city counsel) voted to require those with an unclothed buttocks to cover any public seat with a towel or napkin before sitting. Many businesses also banned nudity and suggestive behavior was still illegal, but certainly you could not be charged because a child saw you while unclothed.
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired