Advancement in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition

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Child Predator Detection in Online Chat Conversation using

Support Vector Machine
Sanjivani Chavan1, Rutuja Konde2, Ishita Rajoria3, Tejashree Deshmukh4*, A.S. Sondkar5
1,2,3,4
Student, 5Professor
Department of Computer Engineering,
RDTC, Shri Chhatrapati Shivajiraje College of Engineering, Dhangawadi, India.
*Corresponding Author
Email id:- tejashreedeshmukh29@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
Increase in Internet use and facilitating access to social media platform has help the predatory
to establish online relationships with children which has boost to increase in online
solicitation. We are proposing system that enables us to detect a predator in online chats using
Text classification method. In this paper, the use of machine learning algorithm named as
support vector machine has been used to determine cyber predators. The main objective of our
system is to detect child predator base on chat, comments and post of social media account and
send predator record to cyber cell admin & the use of PAN12 dataset is done for text
classification Purpose. This paper presents our current development to enable the creation of
the child predator system using SVM text classification.

Keywords: SVM, ML, Training Module, dataset.

INTRODUCTION post on social media and send report to

Now a day’s every child uses internet and
Children using social media platform can
easily access internet this helps to predators
to easily connect with them. Which can put
unaware children at high risk and that has is
the internet predators to established with
them.
Once, online relationship has been
established child grooming process is then
initiated by the predator to build offline
contact. However not all people have the
best intensions when using this platform for
interacting with peers and the increased
level of anonymity can favor their
inappropriate behavior. Putting this
problem in context it is very important to
develop a system that automatically detects
the child predator in online chats.
We are going to implement Child Predator
Detection System on Social Media, which
is a web-based application. This project
aims to detect child predator comments and
admin.
The rest of the paper is organized as
follows; Section 2 contains Literature
Survey. Section 3 describes existing
system. Section 4 describes proposed
methodology for identifying predator.
Section 6 gives the knowledge about
algorithm which we are using in this
project.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Ensemble Method for Sexual Predator
Identification.[1] Author: Muhammad Ali
Fauzi, Patric Bours shown Study of
effective methods to identify sexual
predators. Cyber grooming is an evoking
problem in the world. In today’s time many
records heavily pointed out that it is very
important to deal with this problem to
ensure the safety of children in terms of
sexual exploitation. In this study the
proposed an effective technique for
identification of sexual predator in online

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chats which has based on two stage
classification. The first stage consists of
distinguishing the predatory conversation
from normal conversation. At the end of the
second stage unique predators are derived
as a result. They also inspect other machine
learning classifier namely Naïve Bayes,
Random Forest, KNN, Neural Network,
Support Vector Machine, Decision Tree
with the help of bag of words using
different kind of term weighing method for
this work. Two ensemble techniques were
also proposed to upgrade classification
task. Their experiment was based on
PAN12 dataset that shown best method
using soft voting-based ensemble for their
first stage and in second stage Naïve Bayes
method obtained F0.5 score from 0.9348
which would have placed at top position in
PAN12 in competition.
A Step Towards Detecting Online
Grooming-Identifying Adults Pretending to
be Children. [2]
Author: Michael Ashcroft, Lisa Katti,
Maxime Meyer implemented automated
investigation of chat room discussion to
detect the possible endeavor of grooming.
Grooming is a vital problem in today’s
world where extra time is spent online. To
become friends and begin a relationship
with youth victims in online circle,
groomers frequently affect to be children.
In this paper they relate an approach that
can be used to detect if an adult is trying to
pretend as child in a chat room
conversation. The approach elaborates a
two-step process where in authors are first
divided as children or adults, and then each
child is being analyzed and wrong children
distinguished from genuine children. Their
results shown that if differentiating adults
pretending to be children and real
children’s is quite hard, but have
distinguished is with high accuracy. In this
paper they debate about accuracy as well as
features proposed which one important for
the result. It was prime step towards
automated investigation of chat room
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conversation to find out all possible attempt
of child grooming. Use of text analysis
method was primarily done for separating
adult predator pretending to be child. It was
a step towards detecting online groomers
and making the Internet secure for young
children.
Detection of Cyber Grooming in Online
Conversation. [3] Author: Elif Varol Altay,
Bilal Altas. They focus was on detection of
child predators in online chat
conversations, 3 different approaches such
as message-based, author-based and
conversation-based which is combined
with 5 more classification algorithms and 2
features sets. They achieved best results
using either the author-based approach with
the classifier Neural Network on the
TF-IDF feature set, or using Ridge or the
Naïve Bayes classifier in
conversation-based approach on TF-IDF
feature set. And for the first time in this
paper, they looked out the quickest way
possible to detect predator and came up
with the result that in most cases 26-161
messages are sufficient is conversation,
showing that it can have an early detection
system of predators instead of knowing in
hindsight children was victim of predator.
Detecting Child Grooming Behavior
Patterns on Social Media.[4] Author:
Amparo Elizabeth Cano, Miriam
Fernandes, Harith Alani. The paper
presented a study of online grooming
phases with the help of a machine learning
perspective. The implemented a method to
characterize phases by psycho-linguistic
and discourse patterns content and features
covering sentiment. In this investigation of
online chat conversation have shown great
output in automatically classifying chat
conversations into different grooming
steps. Deep understanding of predator
behavior and way of writing is very
essential part to having look at for
implementing powerful systems for
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detection of predatory conversations and
predators on social media platform.
Cyber Bullying detection.[5] Author:
Batoul Haipar, Maroun Phamoun, Fadi
yamout. In their research they have
detected cyber bullying like sending sexual
contents, threatening messages, sending
and forwarding private messages to others
which is faced by various children around
the world as well as in Arab countries too,
earlier researches were done in many
languages so this time they have mainly
worked on Arabic language cyber bullying
and the detection is done with the help of
machine learning and language processing.
A Conversational Agent to Detect Online
Sex Offenders.[6] Author: John Ibanez
Rodriguez, Santiago Rocha Duran, Daniel
Diaz-Lopez, Javie Pastor-Galindo, Felix
Gomez Marmol. There work presents a
system which is called as chatbot, it is used
to detect suspects by using NLP which
interacts with suspect in order to identify
child sexual abuse. An ACE (artificial
conversational entity) is used to connect
different online chat services which help in
starting a conversation. Chatbot analyses
the conversation which happens between
the chatbot and the suspect and calculate
features to know the suspect behavior.
Chatbot consist a knowledge base data
which communicates with humans. It
consists of interactive module which is
active during the conversation with
suspects and stores information, chats of
suspect in chatbot database. Another one is
analysis module; this comes in play after
the conversation gets finished which
categorize and describes suspect behavior.
Mainly this system is used to build dataset
of suspects and categorize them in different
groups on the basis of their characteristics.
The main advantage of the system is that it
can communicate with 900 suspects weekly
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which is very huge and disadvantage of this
system is if in chatbot’s dataset information
about the topic is not present then it will not
be able to answer the predator.
EXISTING SYSTEM
There exists various child predator
detection system which are used in gaming,
audio chat and in various online
entertainment platform. While playing
games or for using online audio chat there
exists a child predator system which detects
an online sexual harassment and prevent
child from getting abused or getting
harassed by sexual predator as this existing
system is only used when the children are
playing games on internet or doing any
audio chats. As now we are in internet era
various children are now days using social
media platform for various social activities.
They are mostly active on social media so
to prevent child harassment we need a child
predator detection system for social media.
PROPOSED SYSTEM
We propose system for child predator
detection system. We implementing 3
Modules for detection system.
 User Module (Child/ predator)
 Training Module
 Cyber System
Function of System
User Module: In this project we will show
two types of user. First normal user another
type showing predator behavior.
Training Module: In training Module we
are using SVM algorithm for text
classification and image detection. After
Training Module, we will send predator
report to cyber admin.
Cyber System: Checking all predator report
and taking action according to that report.
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MATHEMATICAL MODEL I=set of images.

Input Data for System-:
1. Post & comment-Normal user Working:
2. Post & comment- Predator P={p1,p2,p3,….,pn}
Where, p1=Remove unwanted data
Output for System-: p2= Difference between normal user and
1. Victim Detection predator user.
2. After predator detection account details P3=Detect and send to cyber admin
are fetched from database and send report
to cyber admin Output:
Collection of predator records and sends to
Mathematical Model-: cyber admin.
Let’s consider M as a whole system based
on machine learning method. ALGORITHM
M= {U, W, I, A, S, F} We are using Support Vector Machine
Set of User: (SVM) in our project to detect predator. It is
U= {U1, U2,….Un}. a supervised machine learning model that
S(Success)-: divides dataset into different classes on
When system detect and predator post and hyperplane which is used to find maximum
comment and send report to cyber admin. margin. We’ll feed labeled data to train our
F(Failure)-: model, in prediction phase labeled data will
When system fail to detect any predator get matched with new data with the help of
post and comment. the SVM algorithm in order to give desired
Process-: output.

Text Classification and Image Working of our System -:

classification-: Step 1-: Taking input from user. (image or
Input : text)
W= {w1, w2,……,wn} Step 2-: Read post and Comment.
I={i1,….,in} Step 3-: Classification of text and images
Where, W= set of word a. If any predator data found

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