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Porn-Detection Software Scans Photos

By Dick Kelsey, Newsbytes June 01, 2000

Educational publisher Heartsoft Inc. is beta-testing pornography detection software--based on NASA technology--that uncovers online porn by scanning photographs for flesh tones and curves to detect nudity.

The Oklahoma-based company has applied for a patent on image detection and analysis technology, "Evaluating Graphic Image Files for Objectionable Content," to be used in its new Internet Safari browser for children.

"The patent that we filed is for software that looks at JPEGs (Joint Photographic Experts Group) and GIFs (graphics interchange format) and is capable of determining with 90 percent to 95 percent accuracy whether any photo contains pornographic images," Heartsoft Chairman and CEO Benjamin Shell told Newsbytes.

Unlike filtering products that look at HTML (hypertext markup language), Heartsoft's new image-scanning software intercepts pictures and determines whether they are pornographic in nature. "Tones of flesh and curves" are among the features the software detects, said Shell. "Obviously when you have very advanced "Star Wars" technology it doesn't take those algorithms long" to find pornography, he said.

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