Knowledge Base

Image Moderation Glossary

Your comprehensive guide to content moderation terminology, AI safety concepts, and image analysis techniques.

A

API

Application Programming Interface for integrating moderation services.

Automated Moderation

AI-powered content review without human intervention.

C

Content Moderation

The practice of monitoring and managing user-generated content.

Computer Vision

AI technology that enables machines to interpret visual information.

Confidence Score

Probability value indicating detection certainty.

CSAM

Child Sexual Abuse Material - illegal content requiring detection.

D

Deepfake

AI-generated synthetic media that manipulates appearances.

Digital Safety

Protecting users from online harms and threats.

F

Face Detection

AI technology that identifies human faces in images.

False Positive

When safe content is incorrectly flagged as harmful.

False Negative

When harmful content is incorrectly marked as safe.

F1 Score

Harmonic mean of precision and recall metrics.

G

GAN

Generative Adversarial Network for creating synthetic images.

H

Hash Matching

Comparing image fingerprints against known harmful content.

Human Review

Manual content review by trained moderators.

I

Image Classification

Categorizing images into predefined content types.

M

Machine Learning

AI systems that learn and improve from data.

Moderation Queue

Pending content awaiting review decisions.

N

NSFW

Not Safe For Work - adult or inappropriate content.

Neural Network

AI architecture inspired by biological neural systems.

O

Object Detection

Identifying and locating objects within images.

OCR

Optical Character Recognition for text extraction.

P

Perceptual Hashing

Creating fingerprints based on visual similarity.

PhotoDNA

Microsoft's hash-based known content detection.

Platform Safety

Ensuring safe user experiences on digital platforms.

Precision

Ratio of true positives to all positive predictions.

R

Recall

Ratio of detected harmful content to total harmful content.

T

Trust & Safety

Teams and practices protecting platform users.

U

User-Generated Content

Content created and shared by platform users.

W

Webhook

HTTP callbacks for real-time moderation notifications.

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