On the multi-agent learning neural and Bayesian methods in skin detector and pornography classifier: an automated anti-pornography system
The main objective on this study proposed anti-pornography system works on four machine learning methods in two different stages namely skin detector stage and pornography classifier stage. A multi-agent learning is used twice. In the first stage, we proposes a multi-agent learning method that co...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014
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| Summary: | The main objective on this study proposed anti-pornography system works on four machine
learning methods in two different stages namely skin detector stage and pornography classifier stage. A
multi-agent learning is used twice. In the first stage, we proposes a multi-agent learning method that
combines the Bayesian method with a grouping histogram (GH) technique and the back-propagation neural
network with a segment adjacent-nested (SAN) technique based on the YCbCr and RGB colour spaces
respectively, to extract skin regions from the image accurately with take into considered the problems of
the light-changing conditions, skin-like colour and reflection from glass and water. In the second stage, the
features from the skin are extracted to classify the images into either pornographic or non-pornographic.
Inaccurate classification occurs when different image sizes are used in the existing anti-pornography
systems. Thus, this paper proposes a multi-agent learning that combines the Bayesian method with a
grouping histogram technique again to extract the features from the skin detection based on YCbCr colour
space and the back propagation neural network method using shape features extracted again from skin
detection. The classification of the pornographic images becomes more robust to the variation in images
sizes. The findings from this study have shown that the proposed multi-agent learning system for skin
detection has produced a significant rate of true positives (TP) (i.e., 98.44%). In addition, it has achieved a
significant low average rate for the false positives (FP) (i.e., only 0.14%) while the proposed multi-agent
learning for pornography classifier has produced significant rates of TP (i.e. 96%). Moreover, it has
achieved a significant low average rate of FP (i.e. only 2.67%). The experimental results show that multiagent
learning in the skin detector and pornography classifier are more efficient than other approaches. |
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