ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the detection of adult images appearing on the Internet. Indeed, images are an essential part of World Wide Web. Skin detection is of paramount importance in the detection of adult images. Internet filters allow schools, libraries, companies, and personal computer users to manage the information that final users can access. 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 accessing visual content that is obscene or harmful to minors, and child pornography. Multimedia information retrieval deals with the representation, storage, organization of, and access to multimedia information ingredients. Multimedia information retrieval deals with the representation, storage, organization of, and access to multimedia information ingredients. Face-detection technology probably can be applied to very specific body parts; text and image data and connectivity information also will help. However, distinguishing semantic concepts such as hard-core from softcore pornography will remain difficult.
