Porn Streamer Recognition in Live Video Streaming via Attention-Gated Multimodal Deep Features

Abstract

Live video streaming platforms have attracted millions of streamers and daily active users. For profit and popularity accumulation, some streamers mix pornography content into live content to avoid online supervision. Therefore, accurate recognition of porn streamers in live video streaming has become a challenging task. Porn streamers in live video present multimodal characteristics including visual and acoustic content. Therefore, a porn streamer recognition method in live video streaming is proposed that uses attention-gated multimodal deep features. Our contribution includes the following: (1) multimodal deep features, i.e., spatial, motion and audio, are extracted from live video streaming using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), in which the temporal context of multimodal features is obtained with a bi-directional gated recurrent unit (Bi-GRU); (2) the tri-attention gated mechanism is applied to map the associations between different modalities by assigning higher weights to important features for further reduction in the redundancy of multimodal features; (3) porn streamers in live video streaming are recognized via the attention-gated multimodal deep features. Six experiments are conducted on a real-world dataset, and the competitive results demonstrate that our method can effectively recognize porn streamers in live video streaming.