The Eye: An AI-Powered Video Streaming Platform to Protect Children from Inappropriate Content

The Internet is now a vital part of our daily life including young children who watch their favorite cartoons using different streaming platforms. Unfortunately, these platforms often host content deemed inappropriate for children due to limited regulations. Manually reviewing the vast content is impossible, leaving parents with limited options to protect their children. Since parents in the Arabic culture have different beliefs on the content their children should be exposed to, and cannot rely on generic Kids' filters, accordingly “The Eye” is proposed. The Eye is a streaming platform that allows children to watch videos while providing parents full flexibility to choose the exact content flags they deem inappropriate, ensuring their children enjoy a safe and age-suitable entertainment environment. The proposed model presents a hybrid CNN-RNN model to classify video content based on the predefined flags. A dataset was meticulously collected serving the different flags needed to train the proposed model and accordingly, the proposed trained model achieved an accuracy of approximately 67% on the test data. The model is deployed as a cloud-based service utilizing AWS infrastructure for efficient video processing and classification.