Content Moderation

Agora Content Moderation is a service based on industry-leading deep learning technology that is specially designed for real-time video interactive scenarios. It can quickly and accurately identify pornographic and illegal content in videos, help you manage and control video content, and effectively reduce risk and improve the efficiency of manual inspection of the platform.

Agora Content Moderation adopts the integration method of "client and cloud (server side)", where the content moderation engine is integreted into the client SDK. Most of the content moderation tasks are handled on the client side; uncertain content is uploaded to the Agora content moderation server for inspection. This reduces server-side auditing resource demands and pressure.

The following figure shows the working principle of Content Moderation. "Your business logic" shows the strategies taken by the client-side content moderation module and the Agora content moderation server for dealing with content that needs to be inspected. You can employ different strategies according to your needs.

Introduction

Agora Content Moderation currently supports the identification of pornographic content in video screenshots. Its main functions are as follows:

• Inspect the video stream of a specified user.
• Support customizing the time interval for taking screenshots of video streams and inspecting them.
• Return the inspection results and suggestions in real time. The content moderation service flags the content as neutral, sexy, or porn, and then gives suggestions including pass (for approved content), reject (for rejected content), and review (for content needing manual inspection).
• Support customizing the thresholds for the three types of content according to business needs.
• Support saving video screenshots in a third-party cloud storage platform and customizing the storage path.
• Support custom picture storage strategies for the three types of content.

Features

Agora Content Moderation has the following features:

Highly cost-effective

The client-side content moderation module can accurately assess most of the images submitted, which greatly reduces dependence on cloud resources and lowers the cost for content moderation. The client-side content moderation module also supports the rapid screening of large amounts of audio data with 99% accuracy, which brings down the human cost of moderation.

Low latency

Agora Content Moderation can detect and reject inappropriate content extremely fast. The inspecting process is in milliseconds, ensuring smooth user experience.

Global coverage

Agora Content Moderation is highly available and supports globally distributed cluster deployment. You can choose to prioritize content moderation in certain areas according to your needs.

Compatibility

Agora Content Moderation supports iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS platforms, as well as interoperability between different platforms. The specific compatibility requirements are shown in the following table.

Billing

The product is currently in public beta, and you can use it for free. After the product is officially released, billing will be based on the number of images processed.