“…In literature, there exists varieties of obscene image detection methodologies (OIDMs) for identification and detection of obscene contents and consequently enable to prohibit/block their further use at the user end. These methodologies are broadly categorized as i) skin-color segmentation based methods [ 5 , 8 , 16 ] ii) Bag of words (BoWs) based models [ 6 , 14 , 18 ] iii) visual and motion feature analysis based [ 11 , 19 , 21 , 30 , 31 ] and iv) deep learning-based classification strategies [ 1 , 4 , 7 , 9 , 22 , 24 – 27 , 29 , 32 , 33 ]. Usually, skin-color segmentation based methods are highly dependent on human skin pixels and hence, unable to generalize the findings.…”