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Detecting illicit visual content demands more than image-level NSFW flags; moderators must also know what objects make an image illegal and where those objects occur. We introduce a zero-shot pipeline that simultaneously (i) detects if an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Sheng Hang , Chaoxiang He , Hongsheng Hu , Hanqing Hu , Bin Benjamin Zhu , Shi-Feng Sun , Dawu Gu , Shuo Wang

Social media platforms are being increasingly used by malicious actors to share unsafe content, such as images depicting sexual activity, cyberbullying, and self-harm. Consequently, major platforms use artificial intelligence (AI) and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mazal Bethany , Brandon Wherry , Nishant Vishwamitra , Peyman Najafirad

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have the ability to build high-quality pictures from text prompts, but they pose safety concerns because they can generate offensive or disturbing imagery when provided with harmful inputs. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chi Zhang , Changjia Zhu , Xiaowen Li , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

Harmful contents are rising in internet day by day and this motivates the essence of more research in fast and reliable obscene and immoral material filtering. Pornographic image recognition is an important component in each filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Seyed Mostafa Kia , Hossein Rahmani , Reza Mortezaei , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam , Amer Namazi

In this work we present definitive evidence, analysis, and (where needed) speculation to answer the questions, (1) Which concrete security measures in mobile devices meaningfully prevent unauthorized access to user data? (2) In what ways…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Maximilian Zinkus , Tushar M. Jois , Matthew Green

The increasing ubiquity of low-cost wireless sensors has enabled users to easily deploy systems to remotely monitor and control their environments. However, this raises privacy concerns for third-party occupants, such as a hotel room guest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Akash Deep Singh , Luis Garcia , Joseph Noor , Mani Srivastava

Score-based generative models (SBM), also known as diffusion models, are the de facto state of the art for image synthesis. Despite their unparalleled performance, SBMs have recently been in the spotlight for being tricked into creating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Camilo Carvajal Reyes , Joaquín Fontbona , Felipe Tobar

As text-to-image (T2I) models advance and gain widespread adoption, their associated safety concerns are becoming increasingly critical. Malicious users exploit these models to generate Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) images using harmful or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yiming Wang , Jiahao Chen , Qingming Li , Tong Zhang , Rui Zeng , Xing Yang , Shouling Ji

Nowadays many people store photos in smartphones. Many of the photos contain sensitive, private information, such as a photocopy of driver's license and credit card. An arising privacy concern is with the unauthorized accesses to such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Ang Li , David Darling , Qinghua Li

In e-commerce, product content, especially product images have a significant influence on a customer's journey from product discovery to evaluation and finally, purchase decision. Since many e-commerce retailers sell items from other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Shreyansh Gandhi , Samrat Kokkula , Abon Chaudhuri , Alessandro Magnani , Theban Stanley , Behzad Ahmadi , Venkatesh Kandaswamy , Omer Ovenc , Shie Mannor

The proliferation of harmful content on online platforms is a major societal problem, which comes in many different forms including hate speech, offensive language, bullying and harassment, misinformation, spam, violence, graphic content,…

The exponential growth of social media platforms has brought about a revolution in communication and content dissemination in human society. Nevertheless, these platforms are being increasingly misused to spread toxic content, including…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Wenxuan Wang , Jingyuan Huang , Jen-tse Huang , Chang Chen , Jiazhen Gu , Pinjia He , Michael R. Lyu

Malware detection is a growing problem particularly on the Android mobile platform due to its increasing popularity and accessibility to numerous third party app markets. This has also been made worse by the increasingly sophisticated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-28 BooJoong Kang , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Kieran McLaughlin , Sakir Sezer

Object detection problem solving has developed greatly within the past few years. There is a need for lighter models in instances where hardware limitations exist, as well as a demand for models to be tailored to mobile devices. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Mohammad Hajizadeh , Mohammad Sabokrou , Adel Rahmani

In our current web and mobile application development runtime nude image content detection is very important. This paper presents a runtime nudity detection method for web and mobile application development. We use two parameters to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Rahat Yeasin Emon

Automatic content moderation is crucial to ensuring safety in social media. Language Model-based classifiers are being increasingly adopted for this task, but it has been shown that they perpetuate racial and social biases. Even if several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Alessandra Urbinati , Mirko Lai , Simona Frenda , Marco Antonio Stranisci

In today's digital world, social media plays a significant role in facilitating communication and content sharing. However, the exponential rise in user-generated content has led to challenges in maintaining a respectful online environment.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Mohammad Dehghani

With the advent of text-to-image models and concerns about their misuse, developers are increasingly relying on image safety classifiers to moderate their generated unsafe images. Yet, the performance of current image safety classifiers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yiting Qu , Xinyue Shen , Yixin Wu , Michael Backes , Savvas Zannettou , Yang Zhang

In order to train, test, and evaluate nudity detection models, machine learning researchers typically rely on nude images scraped from the Internet. Our research finds that this content is collected and, in some cases, subsequently…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Princessa Cintaqia , Arshia Arya , Elissa M Redmiles , Deepak Kumar , Allison McDonald , Lucy Qin

Online memes are a powerful yet challenging medium for content moderation, often masking harmful intent behind humor, irony, or cultural symbolism. Conventional moderation systems "especially those relying on explicit text" frequently fail…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Sayantan Adak , Somnath Banerjee , Rajarshi Mandal , Avik Halder , Sayan Layek , Rima Hazra , Animesh Mukherjee