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'.

Comments

Nude == Rude?

[dskoll]

Why does "Nude" equate to "Rude"? Oh right, I forgot... we're afraid of our bodies and spooked by healthy sexuality.

Re:Nude == Rude?

[bill_mcgonigle]

Why does "Nude" equate to "Rude"? Oh right, I forgot... we're afraid of our bodies and spooked by healthy sexuality.

Puritanism is the State Religion.

Re:Nude == Rude?

[dskoll]

Right, because a 5-year-old is traumatized by stumbling across a picture of a nude dude, but is perfectly fine watching 15 people a day being blown away violently on prime-time television shows.

OMG, think of the CHILDREN! What if she accidentally sees a PENIS? OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!

And what if young Bobby accidentally sees a boob? OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!

Re:Nude == Rude?

[Anonymous Coward]

And what, exactly, does this nude-detecting AI have to do with your daughter, exactly?

You, sir, have issues. Perhaps you should stop insisting that everyone is fantasizing about her and realize you are only projecting that yourself.

Re:Nude == Rude?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sex Ed will SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the likelihood that she gets pregnant before reaching adulthood.

Re:Nude == Rude?

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember back when I was 14, raised in my fundamentalist protestant christian community. No playboy magazine. No masturbation without guilt. Sexual desire was lust, which was a sin, and I was supposed to resist temptation and ask for forgiveness.

We had no sexual outlets. So, we played with the girls every chance we got. And they were just as eager, because they were in the same boat. The moment the grown-ups weren't around, neither were the clothes. Did I mention we did not have access to condoms, pills, or any form of birth control at all?

I am damn lucky I didn't knock anyone up. The only reason, in fact, that I didn't get someone preggo was because I DID learn (in a single akward conversation that does not qualify as sex education) the barest basics of how babies were made. Obviously, such an event would get us caught, so we played in every way we could other than that. Well some of us did, anyway. A few got pregnant.

*THIS* is not healthy or safe for the kids. It is not even sane. Educate those kids. Every fact they have is a fact they can use to make wise choices. And for God's sakes give them access to free condoms...not to condone sexuality, but to protect the especially hormonal ones from the life-destroying consequences that otherwise result.

Also, let go of your ridiculous notions of childhood innocence. It's a fantasy you make up. We were all dirty old men at the age of about six.

You Gringos have a problem with nudity

[Anonymous Coward]

Just a reminder, we are all born naked. Stop making so much trouble!

Cheers from Germany.

Because Puritans

[waspleg]

and other assorted imported religious insanity.

Rude ?

[aepervius]

I understand classifying as nude or safe, or whatnot, but rude ? Since when is nudity rude ?

Re:And it performs poorly.....

[Curunir_wolf]

(nipples on breasts were a pretty solid indicator and easy to scan for... also detecting a crotch region with dark hair... obviously a fat man in a hair-toned thong would trigger alarms)

What's wrong with (female) nipples on breasts? Are they more naked than a man with a naked upper body? Should the woman be covered while the man can freely go around without something to cover his chest? There is absolutely nothing wrong with female breasts. They are not sexual objects. Treating them like that is just demeaning, both to women and men.

Well my nipples, in fact, are sexual objects. My wife's were, too, until she had a kid. Then, not so much. Not at all, in fact.