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Paraben Releases Porn Detection Stick
Paraben has introduced a new USB drive that detects porn on a user's PC.
"The Porn Detection Stick… is a $100 thumb drive stuffed with Windows-compatible image detection software," writes Gizmodo's Mark Wilson. "Give it an hour and a half, and the device can scan 70,000 images — even deleted ones — with algorithms that analyze 'facial features, flesh tone colors, image back grounds, body part shapes, and more.' The system promises less than 1% false positives."
"First, the software applies filtering to the images, 'cleaning' them to make them more easily discernible," writes Gearlog's Mark Hachman. "Skin detection looks for skin tones, while a background eliminaton tool separates the image from, well, the background. Other algorithms look for particular body parts and faces, using edge detection. After all of the image processing has been completed, the software renders a decision on whether the image is pornographic or not."
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