Description: I write about technology, culture, and et cetera. My primary focus right now is in the mobile app space.
Technology, Culture, and Et cetera
Imagine that you are designing a mobile app that lets users add a profile picture via their phone's camera. How would you go about preventing users from uploading pictures of their 'naughty bits' as their profile pic?
One option might be to do advanced image analysis on the picture once it has been taken. This could potentially be a very good way to weed out images based on their similarity to forbidden images. Unfortunately, this adds complexity to the system since the image analysis algorithm needs to be developed internally or selected from off-the-shelf components. In addition, this design implies that the user's profile pic probably can't be added immediately to their profile. No matter how fast the image analysis a