A Nudity Detection Algorithm for Web-based Online Networking Platform

Social media and online platforms have become an integral part of the day-to-day life of the people and the organizations, which shows a lot of diversity. Many online platforms allow users to share media extensively, like images, videos, and audio but not all the media content shared on the internet is safe for work or should be restricted from particular platforms. Images with nudity are of big concern when it comes to online media sharing and social platforms must take serious measures to restrict users to share images with nudity. The rate of growth of nudity content over the internet or social media is very high. It affects the mental and physical health of individuals. In this paper, a novel method for nudity detection in images is presented. We aim to develop a Machine Learning algorithm for nudity detection in a community networking platform and how it should be integrated with such a platform so that posted images can be thoroughly checked for nudity and if detected how it should be dealt with.