Detection of Violence in Cartoon Videos Using Visual Features

Abstract

Technology play an important role in today era. Tremendous growth has been observed in the field of communication and technology. Same is noteworthy in case of video and multimedia. An enormous amount of visual clips containing all types of scenes can easily be accessed both online and offline. In the use of internet has increase the trend of watching cartoons as a source of entertainment among children. There is a tendency that cartoon video has scenes that make some people uncomfortable because of the contents of the video that may be against their feelings and acceptability levels. There could be a number of objectionable elements in cartoon videos. This work presents a framework based on knowledgebase, with visual features which is divided into two categories i.e. character and object database. That deal with the detection of violent contents in cartoon videos which can have negative impact on child personality. A prototype of this system is developed and implemented in Mat lab. The experimental results show that the proposed system successfully detects the violent scenes in cartoon videos.