This is a set of scripts that allows for an automatic collection of 10s of thousands of images for the following (loosely defined) categories to be later used for training an image classifier:

• porn - pornography images
• hentai - hentai images, but also includes pornographic drawings
• sexy - sexually explicit images, but not pornography. Think nude photos, playboy, bikini, beach volleyball, etc.
• neutral - safe for work neutral images of everyday things and people
• drawings - safe for work drawings (including anime)

Here is what each script (located under scripts directory) does:

• 1_get_urls.sh - iterates through text files under scripts/source_urls downloading URLs of images for each of the 5 categories above. The Ripme application performs all the heavy lifting. The source URLs are mostly links to various subreddits, but could be any website that Ripme supports. Note: I already ran this script for you, and its outputs are located in raw_data directory. No need to rerun unless you edit files under scripts/source_urls
• 2_download_from_urls.sh - downloads actual images for urls found in text files in raw_data directory
• 3_optional_download_drawings.sh - (optional) script that downloads SFW anime images from the Danbooru2018 database
• 4_optional_download_neutral.sh - (optional) script that downloads SFW neutral images from the Caltech256 dataset
• 5_create_train.sh - creates data/train directory and copy all *.jpg and *.jpeg file into it from raw_data. Also removes corrupted images
• 6_create_test.sh - creates data/test directory and moves N=2000 random files for each class from data/train to data/test (change this number inside the script if you need a different train/test split). Alternatively, you can run it multiple times, each time it will move N images for each class from data/train to data/test.

• Python3 environment: conda env create -f environment.yml
• Java runtime environment:
  • debian and ubuntu:sudo apt-get install default-jre
• Linux command line tools: wget, convert (imagemagick suite of tools), rsync, shuf

• option 1: download a linux distro from windows 10 store and run the scripts there

• option 2

  • download and install git from here. Git also installs Bash on your pc
  • download and install wget from here and add it to PATH
  • run the scripts

Change working directory to scripts and execute each script in the sequence indicated by the number in the file name, e.g.:

$ bash 1_get_urls.sh # has already been run
$ find ../raw_data -name "urls_*.txt" -exec sh -c "echo Number of URLs in {}: ; cat {} | wc -l" \;
Number of URLs in ../raw_data/drawings/urls_drawings.txt:
   25732
Number of URLs in ../raw_data/hentai/urls_hentai.txt:
   45228
Number of URLs in ../raw_data/neutral/urls_neutral.txt:
   20960
Number of URLs in ../raw_data/sexy/urls_sexy.txt:
   19554
Number of URLs in ../raw_data/porn/urls_porn.txt:
  116521
$ bash 2_download_from_urls.sh
$ bash 3_optional_download_drawings.sh # optional
$ bash 4_optional_download_neutral.sh # optional
$ bash 5_create_train.sh
$ bash 6_create_test.sh
$ cd ../data
$ ls train
drawings hentai neutral porn sexy
$ ls test
drawings hentai neutral porn sexy

I was able to train a CNN classifier to 91% accuracy with the following confusion matrix:

As expected, anime and hentai are confused with each other more frequently than with other classes.

Same with porn and sexy categories.

Note: anime category was later renamed to drawings