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Show HN: My Weekend Project Nudity Detector API (testkiosk.com)
7 points by iapi on June 26, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments



Nudity detection is a hard problem, so hard that even the biggest companies tend to rely on crowd sourced systems, not computational ones. Is that what this is? Either way I definitely think you more information about how the system works, examples of what it can and can-not do and information about how long processing takes. I need a solution to this problem but have wasted so much time with other underperforming systems that I won't venture past the front page without some more details.


This api offer's both computational and crowd sourced detection.


I think you need to define nudity and semi-nudity more.

1 - No nudity detected people fully clothed. 2 - Semi-nudity detected people fully clothed. 3 - Nudity detected private parts/gentials visible.

How can there be semi-nudity if people are fully clothed? Are female breasts considered nudity or semi-nudity? What about male breasts? What about pubic hair without display of genitals? There are so many gray areas you need to be more specific.


lol sorry i meant partially clothed fixed it thanks for noticing


so basically you spent the weekend looking at porn? haha I jest :P

Looks like a fantastic API, I've never seen something like it before, will try it when I have a chance. Good Luck!


sure :) let me know your feedback when you try it


What about video? Do you plan add it as well?


sure i'll add it if there is a demand for it


How does your automatic detection work?


you simply pass on your photo link using out api and we run some algorithms to detect if there is possibility of nudity in the picture.


What kind and how accurate are those? A demo page would be nice.


thanks for the suggestion i'd definitely setup a demo page this week. you can try it out anyone who sign-ups from HN in invite list will be $0.50 USD credit for free




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