Provided is an improved pornography blocking technique which blocks
pornography on the basis of the contents of multimedia data. First,
feature descriptor is extracted from multimedia data inputted from the
Internet by using MPEG-7 scheme. And referring to reference pornography
database which stores reference pornography in the form of feature
descriptor, the similarity degree between the extracted feature
descriptor and the feature descriptor of the reference pornography is
measured by calculating the vector distance between the two feature
descriptors. And it is determined whether the inputted multimedia data is
pornography or not, by comparing the measured similarity degree with the
similarity measurement threshold value. According to the invention,
accurate pornography determining is possible, because the invention uses
the contents of the multimedia data for determining. And rapid and
efficient pornography determining is possible, because the invention uses
feature descriptor with less information, instead of the original
multimedia data.