ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the detection of adult images appearing in the Internet. It provides a brief overview of the system and also presents the results obtained by adult image detector. Internet filters allow schools, libraries, companies, and personal computer users to manage the information that final users can access. Filters may be needed for legal, ethical, or productivity reasons. Multimedia information retrieval deals with the representation, storage, organization of, and access to multimedia information ingredients. The difference between multimedia information retrieval and multimedia information filtering is that multimedia information retrieval is intended to support users who are actively retrieving for multimedia information, as in Internet searching. In the context of legal reason, many new laws require schools and libraries to enforce the policy of Internet safety that protects against minors and adults access to unsuitable visual content that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors.
