A deep-learning approach to early identification of suggested sexual harassment from videos
This addresses the issue of women's safety by providing a dataset to develop early detection systems, though it is incremental as it focuses on dataset creation rather than a new detection method.
The paper tackles the problem of identifying sexual harassment, abuse, and violence in videos by creating a first-of-its-kind dataset from Indian movie scenes, annotated with visual attributes like facial expressions and unwanted touching, and making it publicly available for training deep-learning models.
Sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and sexual violence are prevalent problems in this day and age. Women's safety is an important issue that needs to be highlighted and addressed. Given this issue, we have studied each of these concerns and the factors that affect it based on images generated from movies. We have classified the three terms (harassment, abuse, and violence) based on the visual attributes present in images depicting these situations. We identified that factors such as facial expression of the victim and perpetrator and unwanted touching had a direct link to identifying the scenes containing sexual harassment, abuse and violence. We also studied and outlined how state-of-the-art explicit content detectors such as Google Cloud Vision API and Clarifai API fail to identify and categorise these images. Based on these definitions and characteristics, we have developed a first-of-its-kind dataset from various Indian movie scenes. These scenes are classified as sexual harassment, sexual abuse, or sexual violence and exported in the PASCAL VOC 1.1 format. Our dataset is annotated on the identified relevant features and can be used to develop and train a deep-learning computer vision model to identify these issues. The dataset is publicly available for research and development.