Ask HN: Please recommend me an NSFW content detection API

15 pointsby MiserableLie3 anni fa5 comments

I've been trying out Google's Cloud Vision API (https://cloud.google.com/vision) as a means of detecting NSFW content in user-submitted images but am finding it surprisingly unreliable. A large proportion of requests appear to just randomly hang before timing out with no error.

I'm looking for recommendations for an alternative solution which can flag images containing pornography, gore, violence, etc. All the bad stuff.

What should I be looking at? Are there any I should avoid?

5 comments

TDiblik3 anni fa

If you need a quick & dirty solution (that works for now), I suggest using [An Algorithm for Nudity Detection - by R. Ap-Apid](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249767252_An_Algori...). It has multiple oss implementations in [js](https://github.com/pa7/nude.js), [python](https://github.com/hhatto/nude.py), [ruby](https://github.com/rummelonp/nude.rb), [go](https://github.com/koyachi/go-nude), and you could probably find one in the language you're using (or implement it yourself). It works well enough™

YaBa3 anni fa

This looks nice: https://github.com/TheHamkerCat/NSFW_Detection_API

Paid solution: https://www.edenai.co/pricing?referral=how-to-detect-explici... or https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/nsfw-detector

houseatrielah3 anni fa

You can play around with Wingman Jr with a few clicks. I remember it being decent. Depends on what your acceptable error rate is.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wingman-jr-fi...

kkielhofner3 anni fa

If you have the inclination you can try opennsfw2[0].

If you have content that slips through you can finetune it with your dataset to improve detection.

[0] - https://github.com/bhky/opennsfw2

speedgoose3 anni fa

Are you billed on the ones failing?

Do you know where it fails? Is it inside Google’s infrastructure or between Google and your infrastructures?

Maybe a short timeout with an automatic retry mechanism could work.