A machine learning pipeline for aiding school identification from child trafficking images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05215v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 16:57:58 GMT
• Title: A machine learning pipeline for aiding school identification from child trafficking images
• Authors: Sumit Mukherjee, Tina Sederholm, Anthony C. Roman, Ria Sankar, Sherrie Caltagirone, Juan Lavista Ferres
• Abstract summary: We develop a proof-of-concept machine learning pipeline to aid the identification of children from intercepted images. In the absence of a machine learning pipeline, this hugely time consuming and labor intensive task is manually conducted by law enforcement personnel. We describe the data collection, labeling, model development and validation process, along with strategies for efficient searching of schools using the model predictions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Child trafficking in a serious problem around the world. Every year there are more than 4 million victims of child trafficking around the world, many of them for the purposes of child sexual exploitation. In collaboration with UK Police and a non-profit focused on child abuse prevention, Global Emancipation Network, we developed a proof-of-concept machine learning pipeline to aid the identification of children from intercepted images. In this work, we focus on images that contain children wearing school uniforms to identify the school of origin. In the absence of a machine learning pipeline, this hugely time consuming and labor intensive task is manually conducted by law enforcement personnel. Thus, by automating aspects of the school identification process, we hope to significantly impact the speed of this portion of child identification. Our proposed pipeline consists of two machine learning models: i) to identify whether an image of a child contains a school uniform in it, and ii) identification of attributes of different school uniform items (such as color/texture of shirts, sweaters, blazers etc.). We describe the data collection, labeling, model development and validation process, along with strategies for efficient searching of schools using the model predictions.

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