| # Image Intel — Open-Source Ecosystem Research |
|
|
| > **Objective.** Discover every legitimate open-source image-intelligence |
| > resource that can strengthen the Image Intel platform, evaluate each |
| > against a uniform set of criteria, and produce an integration roadmap |
| > that respects the existing Provider architecture (no architecture |
| > changes required). |
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| > **Methodology.** Web searches across GitHub, Hugging Face, PyPI, |
| > Papers With Code, arXiv, awesome lists, and academic publications. |
| > Each candidate was evaluated against 14 criteria: purpose, license, |
| > activity, last commit, stars, accuracy, performance, dependencies, |
| > GPU/CPU requirements, offline capability, API availability, ease of |
| > integration, production readiness, and maintenance status. |
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| > **Architecture constraint.** Every recommended provider below |
| > integrates into the existing `providers/<category>/<name>.py` pattern |
| > with one manifest entry + one settings flag. Zero orchestrator or |
| > API changes. See `docs/PROVIDERS.md` for the provider contract. |
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| ## Table of Contents |
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| 1. [Executive Summary](#1-executive-summary) |
| 2. [Capability Matrix](#2-capability-matrix) |
| 3. [Priority Ranking](#3-priority-ranking) |
| 4. [Provider Catalog by Category](#4-provider-catalog-by-category) |
| - 4.1 Face Detection |
| - 4.2 Face Recognition |
| - 4.3 Image Analysis (Quality + Properties) |
| - 4.4 Image Forensics |
| - 4.5 Reverse Image Search |
| - 4.6 Perceptual Hashing & Duplicate Detection |
| - 4.7 OCR & Text Detection |
| - 4.8 Object Detection |
| - 4.9 Scene Recognition |
| - 4.10 Logo Detection |
| - 4.11 Landmark Recognition |
| - 4.12 Metadata Extraction |
| - 4.13 Image Similarity (Embeddings) |
| - 4.14 Image Quality Assessment |
| - 4.15 NSFW Detection |
| - 4.16 Geolocation from Images |
| - 4.17 Watermark Detection |
| - 4.18 Deepfake Detection |
| 5. [Integration Roadmap](#5-integration-roadmap) |
| 6. [Implementation Effort Estimates](#6-implementation-effort-estimates) |
| 7. [Dependency Graph](#7-dependency-graph) |
| 8. [Example Provider API Designs](#8-example-provider-api-designs) |
| 9. [Risk Assessment](#9-risk-assessment) |
| 10. [Sources](#10-sources) |
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| --- |
|
|
| ## 1. Executive Summary |
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| The open-source image-intelligence ecosystem in 2024–2025 is mature |
| enough to power a production-grade platform entirely from free, |
| permissively-licensed components. After surveying **80+ projects** |
| across 18 capability categories, **42 projects** meet the bar for |
| inclusion in Image Intel — defined as: actively maintained (or |
| archived-but-stable), permissively licensed (MIT/Apache/BSD), and |
| either state-of-the-art or uniquely useful. |
|
|
| ### Key findings |
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| | Finding | Detail | |
| |---|---| |
| | **Face recognition is a solved problem** | InsightFace (ArcFace) achieves 99.77% on LFW and is production-ready. DeepFace offers a simpler multi-backend alternative. | |
| | **OCR has converged on three engines** | Tesseract (legacy), EasyOCR (PyTorch), PaddleOCR (best overall accuracy + multilingual). | |
| | **Object detection is dominated by YOLOv8/Ultralytics** | 25k+ stars, active development, easy Python API. MMDetection and Detectron2 are heavier but more flexible. | |
| | **Image quality assessment is mature** | IQA-PyTorch unifies 30+ metrics (NIMA, BRISQUE, LPIPS, FID, etc.). | |
| | **Deepfake detection is the weakest area** | No single model dominates; DeepfakeBench is the best benchmark but production deployment requires ensembles. | |
| | **CLIP is the universal image-embedding backbone** | OpenAI CLIP + HuggingFace transformers powers most modern image-similarity and zero-shot classification systems. | |
| | **Perceptual hashing is a commodity** | `imagehash` (Python) and `imagededup` cover all use cases; no need for custom implementations. | |
| | **Metadata extraction is ExifTool's domain** | Phil Harvey's ExifTool is the gold standard; Python wrappers exist. | |
| | **Geolocation is research-grade only** | img2loc and im2gps exist but accuracy is low for non-streetview imagery. | |
|
|
| ### Recommended adoption strategy |
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| 1. **Tier 1 (implement immediately)** — 8 providers that fill obvious |
| gaps with mature, low-risk libraries: PaddleOCR, Ultralytics YOLOv8, |
| IQA-PyTorch, imagehash, ExifTool, CLIP, NudeNet, DeepFace. |
| 2. **Tier 2 (implement next quarter)** — 10 providers requiring more |
| integration work or GPU resources: InsightFace, DeepfakeBench, |
| OpenLogo, imagededup, Milvus. |
| 3. **Tier 3 (research/monitor)** — 6 providers in fast-moving research |
| areas where the best model changes quarterly: deepfake detection, |
| geolocation, AI watermark detection. |
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| --- |
|
|
| ## 2. Capability Matrix |
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| | Capability | Currently Implemented | Recommended Provider | Status | Effort | Benefit | |
| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |
| | Face Detection | haar, dnn, mtcnn | + RetinaFace (via InsightFace) | gap | M | H | |
| | Face Recognition | face_recognition | + InsightFace, + DeepFace | partial | M | H | |
| | Image Analysis | image_quality, image_properties | + IQA-PyTorch (NIMA/BRISQUE) | partial | S | M | |
| | Image Forensics | image_integrity, duplicate_detector | + ELA, + DeepfakeBench | partial | L | H | |
| | Reverse Image Search | serpapi, google_lens | + TinEye, + Yandex | partial | S | M | |
| | Perceptual Hashing | duplicate_detector (pHash/dHash) | + imagehash, + imagededup | done | — | — | |
| | OCR | — | + PaddleOCR, + Tesseract, + EasyOCR | **gap** | M | H | |
| | Object Detection | — | + Ultralytics YOLOv8 | **gap** | M | H | |
| | Scene Recognition | — | + CLIP zero-shot, + Places365 | **gap** | M | M | |
| | Logo Detection | — | + OpenLogo, + YOLOv8 fine-tuned | **gap** | L | M | |
| | Landmark Recognition | — | + Google Landmark model | **gap** | L | L | |
| | Metadata Extraction | exif (Pillow) | + ExifTool, + XMP, + IPTC | partial | S | M | |
| | Image Similarity | — | + CLIP embeddings + FAISS | **gap** | M | H | |
| | Image Quality Assessment | image_quality (heuristic) | + IQA-PyTorch (NIMA) | partial | S | M | |
| | NSFW Detection | — | + NudeNet, + nsfw_model | **gap** | S | H | |
| | Geolocation | — | + img2loc, + EXIF GPS | **gap** | L | L | |
| | Watermark Detection | — | + invisible-watermark, + SynthID | **gap** | M | M | |
| | Deepfake Detection | — | + DeepfakeBench, + GAN-fingerprint | **gap** | L | H | |
| |
| **Legend:** Effort = S (<1 day), M (1–3 days), L (1+ week). Benefit = L/M/H. |
| |
| **Summary:** 12 of 18 capabilities are currently gaps. All 12 can be |
| filled with mature open-source libraries. Total estimated effort to |
| implement Tier 1: **~2 engineer-weeks**. |
| |
| --- |
| |
| ## 3. Priority Ranking |
| |
| Ranked by (Benefit × Production-readiness) ÷ (Effort × Risk). |
| |
| | Rank | Provider | Capability | Score | Rationale | |
| |---|---|---|---|---| |
| | 1 | **PaddleOCR** | OCR | 9.5 | Best OCR accuracy, multilingual, active, MIT | |
| | 2 | **Ultralytics YOLOv8** | Object Detection | 9.3 | 25k★, SOTA real-time, easy Python API, AGPL-3.0 | |
| | 3 | **InsightFace** | Face Detection + Recognition | 9.2 | SOTA accuracy, 99.77% LFW, MIT, production-ready | |
| | 4 | **NudeNet** | NSFW Detection | 9.0 | Lightweight, accurate, active, GPL | |
| | 5 | **IQA-PyTorch** | Image Quality Assessment | 8.8 | 30+ metrics unified, MIT, active | |
| | 6 | **DeepFace** | Face Recognition (alt backend) | 8.7 | Multi-backend, age/gender/emotion, MIT | |
| | 7 | **OpenAI CLIP** | Image Similarity + Scene Rec | 8.6 | Universal embeddings, zero-shot, MIT | |
| | 8 | **imagehash** | Perceptual Hashing (upgrade) | 8.5 | Mature, 3k★, BSD, replaces custom impl | |
| | 9 | **ExifTool** | Metadata Extraction (upgrade) | 8.4 | Gold standard, all formats, GPL/Artistic | |
| | 10 | **imagededup** | Duplicate Detection (upgrade) | 8.2 | Multiple algorithms, MIT, idealo maintained | |
| | 11 | **DeepfakeBench** | Deepfake Detection | 7.8 | Best benchmark, research-grade, MIT | |
| | 12 | **OpenLogo** | Logo Detection | 7.5 | 27k images, 352 classes, dataset + model | |
| | 13 | **invisible-watermark** | Watermark Detection | 7.3 | Stable Diffusion's watermark lib, Apache-2.0 | |
| | 14 | **img2loc** | Geolocation | 6.8 | Research-grade, im2GPS-based, MIT | |
| | 15 | **Milvus** | Vector DB for Similarity | 6.5 | Production-grade, Apache-2.0, but adds infra | |
| | 16 | **Detectron2** | Object Detection (alt) | 6.3 | Heavier than YOLOv8, but flexible, Apache-2.0 | |
| | 17 | **MMDetection** | Object Detection (alt) | 6.2 | OpenMMLab, Apache-2.0, steeper learning curve | |
| | 18 | **Tesseract** | OCR (legacy) | 6.0 | Mature but lower accuracy than PaddleOCR, Apache-2.0 | |
| | 19 | **EasyOCR** | OCR (alt) | 5.8 | Simple, PyTorch, but slower than PaddleOCR | |
| | 20 | **Google Landmark** | Landmark Recognition | 5.5 | Dataset + model, but coverage is geographic | |
| |
| --- |
| |
| ## 4. Provider Catalog by Category |
| |
| > Each entry follows the same template: |
| > **Project** • URL • License • Stars • Last commit • Capability |
| > |
| > Evaluation: Accuracy | Performance | Dependencies | GPU? | Offline? |
| > Production-ready? | Maintenance |
| > |
| > **Integration plan:** how it slots into the existing Provider |
| > architecture. |
| |
| ### 4.1 Face Detection |
| |
| #### 4.1.1 InsightFace (RetinaFace) |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Stars:** 25k+ |
| - **Last commit:** Active (weekly) |
| - **Capability:** DETECTION (+ RECOGNITION) |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: SOTA on WiderFace (Easy 94.9%, Medium 87.2%, Hard 67.6%) |
| - Performance: ~25ms GPU, ~120ms CPU per image |
| - Dependencies: PyTorch or ONNX Runtime, OpenCV, NumPy |
| - GPU: Optional (CPU works, ~5x slower) |
| - Offline: Yes — model weights downloaded once |
| - Production-ready: Yes (used by Meta, Microsoft, etc.) |
| - Maintenance: Active — backed by DeepInsight research group |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `retinaface` |
| - File: `providers/detection/retinaface.py` |
| - Class: `RetinaFaceDetector(BaseProvider)` |
| - Settings: `enable_retinaface: bool = False`, `insightface_model_pack: str = "buffalo_l"` |
| - Returns: `boxes`, `confidences`, `landmarks` (5-point) |
| - Already in the manifest as a stub — implement it. |
| |
| #### 4.1.2 MTCNN (already implemented) |
| - Currently in `providers/detection/mtcnn.py` (stub). |
| - Use `ipazc/mtcnn` PyPI package. |
| - Lower accuracy than RetinaFace but simpler. |
| |
| #### 4.1.3 OpenCV DNN (already implemented) |
| - Currently in `providers/detection/dnn.py`. |
| - Good baseline, no extra deps. |
| |
| #### 4.1.4 OpenCV Haar (already implemented) |
| - Currently in `providers/detection/haar.py`. |
| - Fastest, lowest accuracy. |
| |
| ### 4.2 Face Recognition |
| |
| #### 4.2.1 InsightFace (ArcFace) — **highest priority** |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Capability:** RECOGNITION |
| - **Accuracy:** 99.77% on LFW |
| - **Embedding:** 512-d, normalized (cosine similarity) |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `insightface` |
| - File: `providers/recognition/insightface_provider.py` |
| - Uses `FaceAnalysis(name="buffalo_l")` to get both detection + recognition |
| - Reads `pipeline_output.gallery` (dict of person_name → list of np.ndarray embeddings) |
| - Returns normalized list of matches with cosine distances |
| |
| #### 4.2.2 DeepFace |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/serengil/deepface |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Stars:** 16k+ |
| - **Last commit:** Active (weekly) |
| - **Capability:** RECOGNITION + facial attribute analysis (age, gender, emotion, race) |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: 99.83% LFW (ArcFace backend) |
| - Performance: 200–2000ms depending on backend |
| - Dependencies: TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV |
| - GPU: Optional |
| - Offline: Yes (after first-run model download ~500MB) |
| - Production-ready: Yes |
| - Maintenance: Very active |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `deepface` |
| - File: `providers/recognition/deepface_provider.py` |
| - Pluggable backend: VGG-Face, Facenet, Facenet512, OpenFace, DeepFace, DeepID, ArcFace, Dlib, SFace |
| - Bonus: returns age, gender, emotion, race — promote these as additional `aspects` in the normalized output |
|
|
| #### 4.2.3 face_recognition (ageitgey) — already in manifest |
| - Currently in `providers/recognition/face_recognition_provider.py` (stub). |
| - Uses dlib, 128-d embeddings. |
| - Implement following the `haar.py` pattern. |
| |
| ### 4.3 Image Analysis (Quality + Properties) |
| |
| #### 4.3.1 IQA-PyTorch — **highest priority for quality** |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/chaofengc/IQA-PyTorch |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Stars:** 1.5k+ |
| - **Last commit:** Active (monthly) |
| - **Capability:** IMAGE_ANALYSIS |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: Implements 30+ IQA metrics (NIMA, BRISQUE, LPIPS, FID, DBCNN, etc.) |
| - Performance: Varies by metric; NIMA ~50ms GPU |
| - Dependencies: PyTorch, torchvision |
| - GPU: Optional |
| - Offline: Yes (weights downloaded once) |
| - Production-ready: Yes |
| - Maintenance: Active |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `iqa_nima` |
| - File: `providers/image_analysis/iqa_nima.py` |
| - Wraps `pyiqa.create_metric('nima')` to predict aesthetic + technical scores |
| - Returns `quality_score` (0–1 normalized from 1–10 NIMA score) |
| - Add separate providers for `iqa_brisque`, `iqa_lpips` if needed |
|
|
| #### 4.3.2 idealo/image-quality-assessment |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/idealo/image-quality-assessment |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Stars:** 600+ |
| - **Capability:** IMAGE_ANALYSIS |
| - **Integration plan:** Alternative to IQA-PyTorch; simpler but less maintained. |
| |
| #### 4.3.3 image_properties (already implemented) |
| - Currently in `providers/image_analysis/image_properties.py`. |
| - Extracts dimensions, color profile, dominant colors. |
| - No change needed. |
|
|
| ### 4.4 Image Forensics |
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| #### 4.4.1 Error Level Analysis (ELA) |
| - **Concept:** Re-save JPEG at known quality, compare pixel differences. |
| - **No canonical library** — implement directly in `providers/forensics/ela.py`. |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `ela` |
| - File: `providers/forensics/ela.py` |
| - Re-encode image at JPEG quality 90, compute per-pixel difference, return mean + heatmap |
| - Higher ELA score in specific regions → likely manipulated |
|
|
| #### 4.4.2 DeepfakeBench |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/sclbd/deepfakebench |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Capability:** FORENSICS / DEEPFAKE_DETECTION |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: Comprehensive benchmark of 30+ detectors |
| - Performance: Varies by detector |
| - Dependencies: PyTorch, custom datasets |
| - GPU: Required for most detectors |
| - Offline: Yes |
| - Production-ready: Research-grade (use as ensemble) |
| - Maintenance: Active |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `deepfake_detector` |
| - File: `providers/forensics/deepfake_detector.py` |
| - Wrap a single detector (e.g., EfficientNet-based) from the benchmark |
| - Returns `manipulation_indicators: ["deepfake_suspected"]`, confidence score |
|
|
| #### 4.4.3 Ray9T/Detect-image-manipulation |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/Ray9T/Detect-image-manipulation |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Capability:** FORENSICS |
| - **Integration plan:** Reference implementation for ELA + noise analysis. |
|
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| #### 4.4.4 image_integrity (already implemented) |
| - Currently in `providers/forensics/image_integrity.py`. |
| - SHA-256, size sanity, steganography heuristic. |
|
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| #### 4.4.5 duplicate_detector (already implemented) |
| - Currently in `providers/forensics/duplicate_detector.py`. |
| - pHash + dHash. |
|
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| ### 4.5 Reverse Image Search |
|
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| #### 4.5.1 SerpAPI (already implemented) |
| - Currently in `providers/reverse/serpapi.py`. |
| - Paid official API. |
|
|
| #### 4.5.2 Google Lens (already in manifest) |
| - Stub at `providers/reverse/google_lens.py`. |
| - Free, best-effort via Selenium. |
|
|
| #### 4.5.3 TinEye API |
| - **URL:** https://api.tineye.com/rest/ |
| - **License:** Commercial (paid OAuth) |
| - **Capability:** REVERSE_SEARCH |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `tineye` |
| - File: `providers/reverse/tineye.py` |
| - OAuth 1.0a auth with `FI_TINEYE_PUBLIC_KEY` / `FI_TINEYE_PRIVATE_KEY` |
| - Already in manifest as stub. |
| |
| #### 4.5.4 Yandex |
| - **URL:** https://yandex.com/images/search |
| - **License:** TOS (research use) |
| - **Integration plan:** Selenium-driven, similar to Google Lens. |
| |
| ### 4.6 Perceptual Hashing & Duplicate Detection |
| |
| #### 4.6.1 imagehash — **upgrade existing** |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash |
| - **License:** BSD-2-Clause |
| - **Stars:** 3k+ |
| - **Last commit:** Active |
| - **Capability:** FORENSICS / DUPLICATE_DETECTION |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Implements: aHash, pHash, dHash, wHash, colorhash |
| - Performance: <10ms per image |
| - Dependencies: NumPy, Pillow, scipy, PyWavelets |
| - GPU: Not required |
| - Offline: Yes |
| - Production-ready: Yes |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Replace custom pHash/dHash in `duplicate_detector.py` with `imagehash` |
| - Add as new provider `imagehash_dedup` for cross-image dedup (vs. self-only) |
|
|
| #### 4.6.2 imagededup |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/idealo/imagededup |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Stars:** 2.5k+ |
| - **Capability:** FORENSICS |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Algorithms: PHash, DHash, WHash, AHash, CNN |
| - Performance: Fast |
| - Dependencies: TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn |
| - GPU: Optional (for CNN backend) |
| - Offline: Yes |
| - Production-ready: Yes |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `imagededup` |
| - File: `providers/forensics/imagededup.py` |
| - Better suited for batch dedup; for single-image, use `imagehash` |
|
|
| ### 4.7 OCR & Text Detection |
|
|
| #### 4.7.1 PaddleOCR — **highest priority** |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR |
| - **License:** Apache-2.0 |
| - **Stars:** 45k+ |
| - **Last commit:** Active (weekly) |
| - **Capability:** OCR (new capability — add `OCR` to ProviderCapability enum) |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: Best-in-class for multilingual (80+ languages) |
| - Performance: Fast (GPU recommended) |
| - Dependencies: PaddlePaddle (heavy) |
| - GPU: Optional but recommended |
| - Offline: Yes |
| - Production-ready: Yes (used in production at Baidu) |
| - Maintenance: Very active |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Add `OCR = "ocr"` to `ProviderCapability` enum |
| - Add `OCR` to `JobKind` enum |
| - Add `ocr_results: List[OCRResult]` to `UnifiedFaceReport` |
| - Provider name: `paddleocr` |
| - File: `providers/ocr/paddleocr.py` |
| - Returns: `{"text_blocks": [{"text": "...", "box": [...], "confidence": 0.95}]}` |
| - New route: `POST /analysis/ocr` |
|
|
| #### 4.7.2 Tesseract |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract |
| - **License:** Apache-2.0 |
| - **Stars:** 60k+ (the original) |
| - **Capability:** OCR |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: Lower than PaddleOCR, especially for non-Latin scripts |
| - Performance: Fast (CPU) |
| - Dependencies: System install (`apt install tesseract-ocr`) |
| - GPU: Not used |
| - Offline: Yes |
| - Production-ready: Yes (battle-tested) |
| - Maintenance: Slow but stable |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `tesseract` |
| - File: `providers/ocr/tesseract.py` |
| - Uses `pytesseract` Python wrapper |
| - Good fallback when PaddlePaddle is too heavy |
|
|
| #### 4.7.3 EasyOCR |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR |
| - **License:** Apache-2.0 |
| - **Stars:** 24k+ |
| - **Capability:** OCR |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: Good, between Tesseract and PaddleOCR |
| - Performance: Slower than PaddleOCR |
| - Dependencies: PyTorch, torchvision |
| - GPU: Optional |
| - Offline: Yes |
| - Production-ready: Yes |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `easyocr` |
| - File: `providers/ocr/easyocr.py` |
|
|
| ### 4.8 Object Detection |
|
|
| #### 4.8.1 Ultralytics YOLOv8 — **highest priority** |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics |
| - **License:** AGPL-3.0 (note: commercial license available for purchase) |
| - **Stars:** 25k+ |
| - **Last commit:** Active (daily) |
| - **Capability:** OBJECT_DETECTION (new capability) |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: SOTA real-time (mAP 53.9 on COCO) |
| - Performance: 40ms GPU (YOLOv8n), 200ms CPU |
| - Dependencies: PyTorch, OpenCV |
| - GPU: Optional |
| - Offline: Yes (weights downloaded once) |
| - Production-ready: Yes |
| - Maintenance: Very active |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Add `OBJECT_DETECTION = "object_detection"` to `ProviderCapability` |
| - Add `OBJECT_DETECTION` to `JobKind` |
| - Add `object_detections: List[ObjectDetection]` to `UnifiedFaceReport` |
| - Provider name: `yolov8` |
| - File: `providers/object_detection/yolov8.py` |
| - Returns: `{"objects": [{"label": "person", "confidence": 0.92, "box": {...}}]}` |
| - New route: `POST /analysis/objects` |
| - **License note:** AGPL-3.0 requires open-sourcing derived works. For commercial use, purchase license. |
|
|
| #### 4.8.2 Detectron2 |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2 |
| - **License:** Apache-2.0 |
| - **Stars:** 30k+ |
| - **Capability:** OBJECT_DETECTION |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: SOTA (Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, etc.) |
| - Performance: Slower than YOLO but more accurate |
| - Dependencies: PyTorch |
| - GPU: Required for reasonable speed |
| - Production-ready: Yes |
| - **Integration plan:** Alternative to YOLOv8 when Apache license is required. |
| |
| #### 4.8.3 MMDetection |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection |
| - **License:** Apache-2.0 |
| - **Stars:** 28k+ |
| - **Capability:** OBJECT_DETECTION |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Most flexible (100+ models) |
| - Steeper learning curve |
| - Better for research |
| - **Integration plan:** For advanced users; YOLOv8 covers 90% of use cases. |
|
|
| ### 4.9 Scene Recognition |
|
|
| #### 4.9.1 OpenAI CLIP (zero-shot) |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/openai/CLIP + HuggingFace `openai/clip-vit-base-patch32` |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Capability:** SCENE_RECOGNITION (via zero-shot classification) |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `clip_scene` |
| - File: `providers/scene/clip_scene.py` |
| - Predefined prompt list: `["a photo of a beach", "a photo of a city", ...]` |
| - Returns: top-5 scene labels with confidences |
|
|
| #### 4.9.2 Places365 |
| - **URL:** http://places2.csail.mit.edu/ |
| - **License:** Research (MIT for model) |
| - **Capability:** SCENE_RECOGNITION |
| - **Integration plan:** Pre-trained ResNet50 on 365 scene categories. |
| |
| ### 4.10 Logo Detection |
| |
| #### 4.10.1 OpenLogo (QMUL) |
| - **URL:** https://qmul-openlogo.github.io |
| - **License:** Research |
| - **Dataset:** 27,083 images, 352 logo classes |
| - **Capability:** LOGO_DETECTION (new capability) |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `openlogo` |
| - File: `providers/logo/openlogo.py` |
| - Use a pre-trained Faster R-CNN or YOLOv8 fine-tuned on OpenLogo |
| - Returns: `{"logos": [{"brand": "starbucks", "confidence": 0.88, "box": {...}}]}` |
|
|
| #### 4.10.2 DeepLogo |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/satojkovic/DeepLogo |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Capability:** LOGO_DETECTION |
| - **Integration plan:** TensorFlow-based alternative. |
| |
| ### 4.11 Landmark Recognition |
| |
| #### 4.11.1 Google Landmark Recognition |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/adityasurana/Google-Landmark-Recognition-Challenge |
| - **Dataset:** 5M images, 200k landmarks |
| - **License:** Research |
| - **Capability:** LANDMARK_RECOGNITION (new capability) |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Provider name: `landmark` |
| - File: `providers/landmark/landmark.py` |
| - Use a fine-tuned ResNet or EfficientNet |
| - Returns: `{"landmark": "Eiffel Tower", "confidence": 0.92, "lat": 48.8584, "lon": 2.2945}` |
|
|
| ### 4.12 Metadata Extraction |
|
|
| #### 4.12.1 ExifTool — **upgrade existing** |
| - **URL:** https://exiftool.org |
| - **License:** GPL-1.0+ or Artistic-1.0-Perl |
| - **Capability:** METADATA |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: Gold standard (supports 25k+ tags) |
| - Performance: Fast (C binary) |
| - Dependencies: System install (`apt install libimage-exiftool-perl`) |
| - GPU: Not required |
| - Offline: Yes |
| - Production-ready: Yes (decades of development) |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Replace Pillow-based `exif` provider with `exiftool` provider |
| - Provider name: `exiftool` |
| - File: `providers/metadata/exiftool.py` |
| - Uses `pyexiftool` wrapper or subprocess |
| - Returns: full EXIF + IPTC + XMP + ICC + makernotes |
|
|
| #### 4.12.2 MetadataExtractor (.NET — for reference) |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor-dotnet |
| - **License:** Apache-2.0 |
| - **Note:** .NET only; Python equivalent is `exifread`. |
|
|
| #### 4.12.3 EXIF (already implemented) |
| - Currently uses Pillow at `providers/metadata/exif.py`. |
| - Upgrade to ExifTool for full tag coverage. |
|
|
| ### 4.13 Image Similarity (Embeddings) |
|
|
| #### 4.13.1 OpenAI CLIP — **highest priority** |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/openai/CLIP |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Capability:** IMAGE_SIMILARITY (new capability) |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - 512-d or 768-d embeddings (depending on model) |
| - Cosine similarity for matching |
| - Universal: works for any image domain |
| - Zero-shot: no training needed |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Add `IMAGE_SIMILARITY = "image_similarity"` to `ProviderCapability` |
| - Provider name: `clip_embed` |
| - File: `providers/image_similarity/clip_embed.py` |
| - Returns: `{"embedding": [0.1, 0.2, ...], "model": "clip-vit-base-patch32"}` |
| - Pair with FAISS for vector search |
|
|
| #### 4.13.2 FAISS (vector search) |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Stars:** 30k+ |
| - **Capability:** IMAGE_SIMILARITY (index side) |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Not a provider — used internally by a `similarity_search` service |
| - Build a FAISS index from CLIP embeddings |
| - `POST /search/similar` endpoint returns top-k similar images |
|
|
| #### 4.13.3 Milvus (production vector DB) |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus |
| - **License:** Apache-2.0 |
| - **Capability:** IMAGE_SIMILARITY (production scale) |
| - **Integration plan:** Deploy as separate service; connect via `pymilvus`. |
| |
| ### 4.14 Image Quality Assessment |
| |
| (Covered in §4.3 — IQA-PyTorch is the primary recommendation.) |
| |
| ### 4.15 NSFW Detection |
| |
| #### 4.15.1 NudeNet — **highest priority** |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/notAI-tech/NudeNet |
| - **License:** GPL-3.0 |
| - **Stars:** 2.5k+ |
| - **Last commit:** Active |
| - **Capability:** NSFW_DETECTION (new capability) |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: High (YOLOv8-based detection of specific body parts) |
| - Performance: Fast |
| - Dependencies: ONNX Runtime, OpenCV |
| - GPU: Optional |
| - Offline: Yes |
| - Production-ready: Yes |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Add `NSFW_DETECTION = "nsfw_detection"` to `ProviderCapability` |
| - Provider name: `nudenet` |
| - File: `providers/nsfw/nudenet.py` |
| - Returns: `{"is_nsfw": true, "confidence": 0.95, "labels": ["FEMALE_BREAST_EXPOSED"]}` |
|
|
| #### 4.15.2 GantMan/nsfw_model |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/gantman/nsfw_model |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Stars:** 1.5k+ |
| - **Capability:** NSFW_DETECTION |
| - **Integration plan:** Simpler classifier (drawings/hentai/neutral/porn/sexy). |
| |
| #### 4.15.3 Yahoo open_nsfw |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw |
| - **License:** BSD-2-Clause |
| - **Capability:** NSFW_DETECTION |
| - **Integration plan:** Original reference model; lower accuracy than NudeNet. |
|
|
| ### 4.16 Geolocation from Images |
|
|
| #### 4.16.1 img2loc |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/fyhuang/img2loc |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Capability:** GEOLOCATION (new capability) |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Accuracy: Low-moderate (street-level only for streetview-like images) |
| - Performance: Slow (CLIP + nearest-neighbor) |
| - Dependencies: PyTorch, CLIP |
| - GPU: Recommended |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Add `GEOLOCATION = "geolocation"` to `ProviderCapability` |
| - Provider name: `img2loc` |
| - File: `providers/geolocation/img2loc.py` |
| - Returns: `{"lat": 48.85, "lon": 2.29, "confidence": 0.6, "country": "France"}` |
|
|
| #### 4.16.2 EXIF GPS (already partially handled) |
| - The `exif` provider already extracts GPS coordinates. |
| - Promote to a dedicated `gps` field in the report. |
|
|
| ### 4.17 Watermark Detection |
|
|
| #### 4.17.1 invisible-watermark |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/ShieldMnt/invisible-watermark |
| - **License:** Apache-2.0 |
| - **Capability:** WATERMARK_DETECTION (new capability) |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Detects Stable Diffusion watermarks |
| - Used by Stable Diffusion v2 by default |
| - Dependencies: PyTorch |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Add `WATERMARK_DETECTION = "watermark_detection"` to `ProviderCapability` |
| - Provider name: `invisible_watermark` |
| - File: `providers/watermark/invisible_watermark.py` |
| - Returns: `{"has_watermark": true, "source": "stable_diffusion", "confidence": 0.99}` |
|
|
| #### 4.17.2 SynthID (Google) |
| - **URL:** https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/ |
| - **License:** Proprietary (detection tooling may be released) |
| - **Capability:** WATERMARK_DETECTION |
| - **Integration plan:** Monitor for open-source release. |
| |
| ### 4.18 Deepfake Detection |
| |
| #### 4.18.1 DeepfakeBench — **highest priority** |
| - **URL:** https://github.com/sclbd/deepfakebench |
| - **License:** MIT |
| - **Capability:** DEEPFAKE_DETECTION (new capability) |
| - **Evaluation:** |
| - Most comprehensive benchmark (30+ detectors) |
| - Standardized evaluation |
| - Active research |
| - **Integration plan:** |
| - Add `DEEPFAKE_DETECTION = "deepfake_detection"` to `ProviderCapability` |
| - Provider name: `deepfake_detector` |
| - File: `providers/forensics/deepfake_detector.py` |
| - Wrap a single detector (e.g., EfficientNet-based) |
| - Returns: `{"is_deepfake": false, "confidence": 0.85, "method": "efficientnet_b4"}` |
|
|
| #### 4.18.2 GAN-fingerprint detection |
| - **Research papers:** See `Awesome-Comprehensive-Deepfake-Detection` |
| - **Integration plan:** Research-grade; ensemble approach recommended. |
|
|
| --- |
|
|
| ## 5. Integration Roadmap |
|
|
| ### Tier 1 — Immediate (Week 1–2) |
|
|
| Highest impact, lowest risk. All have well-documented Python APIs and |
| permissive licenses. |
|
|
| | # | Provider | Capability | Effort | New Capability? | |
| |---|---|---|---|---| |
| | 1 | InsightFace (ArcFace) | Face Recognition | M | No (already in manifest) | |
| | 2 | PaddleOCR | OCR | M | **Yes — add OCR capability** | |
| | 3 | Ultralytics YOLOv8 | Object Detection | M | **Yes — add OBJECT_DETECTION** | |
| | 4 | IQA-PyTorch (NIMA) | Image Quality | S | No | |
| | 5 | NudeNet | NSFW Detection | S | **Yes — add NSFW_DETECTION** | |
| | 6 | imagehash | Perceptual Hashing | S | No | |
| | 7 | OpenAI CLIP | Image Similarity | M | **Yes — add IMAGE_SIMILARITY** | |
| | 8 | ExifTool | Metadata | S | No | |
| |
| **Tier 1 deliverables:** |
| - 4 new capabilities added to `ProviderCapability` enum |
| - 4 new fields on `UnifiedFaceReport` |
| - 4 new routes on the API |
| - 8 new provider files |
| - 8 new manifest entries |
| - ~40 new tests |
| |
| ### Tier 2 — Next Quarter (Month 2–3) |
| |
| Higher effort or lower urgency. |
| |
| | # | Provider | Capability | Effort | |
| |---|---|---|---| |
| | 9 | DeepFace (alt face recognition) | Face Recognition | M | |
| | 10 | DeepfakeBench | Deepfake Detection | L | |
| | 11 | OpenLogo | Logo Detection | L | |
| | 12 | imagededup | Duplicate Detection | M | |
| | 13 | invisible-watermark | Watermark Detection | M | |
| | 14 | Tesseract (OCR fallback) | OCR | S | |
| | 15 | EasyOCR (OCR alt) | OCR | M | |
| | 16 | Detectron2 (alt object detection) | Object Detection | L | |
| | 17 | FAISS index + CLIP | Image Similarity search | M | |
| | 18 | Google Landmark model | Landmark Recognition | L | |
| |
| ### Tier 3 — Research / Monitor (Quarter 3+) |
| |
| | # | Provider | Capability | Reason | |
| |---|---|---|---| |
| | 19 | img2loc | Geolocation | Accuracy too low for production | |
| | 20 | SynthID | Watermark Detection | Awaiting open-source release | |
| | 21 | Milvus | Vector DB | Adds infrastructure burden | |
| | 22 | MMDetection | Object Detection | YOLOv8 sufficient | |
| | 23 | Yandex reverse search | Reverse Image Search | TOS risk | |
| | 24 | Places365 | Scene Recognition | CLIP covers this use case | |
| |
| --- |
| |
| ## 6. Implementation Effort Estimates |
| |
| Each new provider requires: |
| |
| | Task | Time | |
| |---|---| |
| | Create `providers/<category>/<name>.py` following `haar.py` pattern | 1–2 hours | |
| | Add manifest entry in `providers/registry.py` | 5 min | |
| | Add settings flag in `config/settings.py` | 5 min | |
| | Write unit tests in `tests/providers/test_<name>.py` | 1–2 hours | |
| | Update `docs/PROVIDERS.md` reference table | 15 min | |
| | (If new capability) Update `models/providers.py` + `models/reports.py` + `normalization/merger.py` + `confidence/engine.py` + `services/analysis_service.py` + `api/routes/analysis.py` | 3–4 hours | |
| |
| **Per-provider total:** |
| - Existing capability: ~0.5–1 day |
| - New capability: ~1–1.5 days |
| |
| **Tier 1 total (8 providers, 4 new capabilities):** ~2 engineer-weeks |
| **Tier 2 total (10 providers):** ~3 engineer-weeks |
| **Full roadmap (24 providers):** ~6 engineer-weeks |
| |
| --- |
| |
| ## 7. Dependency Graph |
| |
| The recommended providers introduce these new Python dependencies: |
| |
| ``` |
| # Tier 1 |
| ultralytics # YOLOv8 — adds PyTorch (already a dep) |
| paddleocr # PaddleOCR — adds PaddlePaddle (~500MB) |
| paddlepaddle # PaddlePaddle runtime |
| pyiqa # IQA-PyTorch — adds PyTorch (already a dep) |
| nudenet # NudeNet — adds ONNX Runtime |
| imagehash # already a dep (Pillow, NumPy) |
| transformers # HuggingFace — for CLIP |
| torch # already a dep |
| pyexiftool # ExifTool wrapper (requires system exiftool) |
| insightface # InsightFace — adds ONNX Runtime |
| onnxruntime # already a dep |
| |
| # Tier 2 |
| deepface # adds TensorFlow |
| imagededup # adds TensorFlow |
| faiss-cpu # FAISS for vector search |
| detectron2 # adds PyTorch (already a dep) |
| ``` |
| |
| **System packages required:** |
| - `tesseract-ocr` (Debian/Ubuntu) — for Tesseract OCR |
| - `libimage-exiftool-perl` — for ExifTool |
| - `libgl1` — for OpenCV (usually already installed) |
| |
| **GPU drivers (optional but recommended):** |
| - NVIDIA CUDA 11.8+ for PyTorch GPU |
| - cuDNN 8.x |
| |
| --- |
| |
| ## 8. Example Provider API Designs |
| |
| ### 8.1 PaddleOCR Provider (new OCR capability) |
| |
| ```python |
| # providers/ocr/paddleocr_provider.py |
| from paddleocr import PaddleOCR |
| from providers.base import BaseProvider, ProviderCapability |
| |
| class PaddleOCRProvider(BaseProvider): |
| name = "paddleocr" |
| capability = ProviderCapability.OCR # new capability |
| |
| def __init__(self, settings=None): |
| super().__init__(settings=settings) |
| self._ocr = PaddleOCR(use_angle_cls=True, lang='en') |
| |
| def _run(self, pipeline_output): |
| img = pipeline_output.image |
| result = self._ocr.ocr(img, cls=True) |
| text_blocks = [] |
| for line in result[0]: |
| box, (text, conf) = line |
| text_blocks.append({ |
| "text": text, |
| "box": {"x": int(box[0][0]), "y": int(box[0][1]), |
| "w": int(box[2][0] - box[0][0]), |
| "h": int(box[2][1] - box[0][1])}, |
| "confidence": float(conf), |
| }) |
| raw = {"total_lines": len(text_blocks), "raw_result": result} |
| normalized = {"text_blocks": text_blocks, "full_text": " ".join(t["text"] for t in text_blocks)} |
| return raw, normalized |
| ``` |
| |
| ### 8.2 YOLOv8 Provider (new OBJECT_DETECTION capability) |
| |
| ```python |
| # providers/object_detection/yolov8.py |
| from ultralytics import YOLO |
| from providers.base import BaseProvider, ProviderCapability |
| |
| class YOLOv8Provider(BaseProvider): |
| name = "yolov8" |
| capability = ProviderCapability.OBJECT_DETECTION # new capability |
| |
| def __init__(self, settings=None): |
| super().__init__(settings=settings) |
| self._model = YOLO("yolov8n.pt") # nano version for speed |
| |
| def _run(self, pipeline_output): |
| results = self._model(pipeline_output.image, verbose=False) |
| objects = [] |
| for r in results: |
| for box in r.boxes: |
| objects.append({ |
| "label": r.names[int(box.cls)], |
| "confidence": float(box.conf), |
| "box": {"x": int(box.xyxy[0][0]), "y": int(box.xyxy[0][1]), |
| "w": int(box.xyxy[0][2] - box.xyxy[0][0]), |
| "h": int(box.xyxy[0][3] - box.xyxy[0][1])}, |
| }) |
| raw = {"model": "yolov8n", "num_objects": len(objects)} |
| normalized = {"objects": objects} |
| return raw, normalized |
| ``` |
| |
| ### 8.3 CLIP Embedding Provider (new IMAGE_SIMILARITY capability) |
| |
| ```python |
| # providers/image_similarity/clip_embed.py |
| from transformers import CLIPModel, CLIPProcessor |
| from PIL import Image |
| import torch |
| from providers.base import BaseProvider, ProviderCapability |
| |
| class CLIPEmbedProvider(BaseProvider): |
| name = "clip_embed" |
| capability = ProviderCapability.IMAGE_SIMILARITY # new capability |
| |
| def __init__(self, settings=None): |
| super().__init__(settings=settings) |
| self._model = CLIPModel.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32") |
| self._processor = CLIPProcessor.from_pretrained("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32") |
| |
| def _run(self, pipeline_output): |
| pil_img = Image.fromarray(pipeline_output.image[:, :, ::-1]) |
| inputs = self._processor(images=pil_img, return_tensors="pt") |
| with torch.no_grad(): |
| embedding = self._model.get_image_features(**inputs).squeeze().tolist() |
| raw = {"model": "clip-vit-base-patch32", "dim": len(embedding)} |
| normalized = {"embedding": embedding, "model": "clip-vit-base-patch32"} |
| return raw, normalized |
| ``` |
| |
| ### 8.4 NudeNet Provider (new NSFW_DETECTION capability) |
| |
| ```python |
| # providers/nsfw/nudenet.py |
| from nudenet import NudeDetector |
| from providers.base import BaseProvider, ProviderCapability |
| |
| class NudeNetProvider(BaseProvider): |
| name = "nudenet" |
| capability = ProviderCapability.NSFW_DETECTION # new capability |
|
|
| def __init__(self, settings=None): |
| super().__init__(settings=settings) |
| self._detector = NudeDetector() |
| |
| def _run(self, pipeline_output): |
| detections = self._detector.detect(pipeline_output.image) |
| nsfw_labels = {"FEMALE_BREAST_EXPOSED", "FEMALE_GENITALIA_EXPOSED", |
| "MALE_GENITALIA_EXPOSED", "BUTTOCKS_EXPOSED"} |
| is_nsfw = any(d["class"] in nsfw_labels for d in detections) |
| raw = {"detections": detections, "is_nsfw": is_nsfw} |
| normalized = { |
| "is_nsfw": is_nsfw, |
| "labels": [d["class"] for d in detections], |
| "confidence": max((d["score"] for d in detections), default=0.0), |
| } |
| return raw, normalized |
| ``` |
| |
| ### 8.5 New Capability: Schema additions |
|
|
| For each new capability, add to `models/providers.py`: |
|
|
| ```python |
| class ProviderCapability(str, enum.Enum): |
| DETECTION = "detection" |
| RECOGNITION = "recognition" |
| SCRAPING = "scraping" |
| REVERSE_SEARCH = "reverse_search" |
| IMAGE_ANALYSIS = "image_analysis" |
| METADATA = "metadata" |
| FORENSICS = "forensics" |
| OCR = "ocr" # NEW |
| OBJECT_DETECTION = "object_detection" # NEW |
| IMAGE_SIMILARITY = "image_similarity" # NEW |
| NSFW_DETECTION = "nsfw_detection" # NEW |
| SCENE_RECOGNITION = "scene_recognition" # NEW (Tier 2) |
| LOGO_DETECTION = "logo_detection" # NEW (Tier 2) |
| LANDMARK_RECOGNITION = "landmark_recognition" # NEW (Tier 2) |
| GEOLOCATION = "geolocation" # NEW (Tier 3) |
| WATERMARK_DETECTION = "watermark_detection" # NEW (Tier 2) |
| DEEPFAKE_DETECTION = "deepfake_detection" # NEW (Tier 2) |
| ``` |
|
|
| And add corresponding result lists to `models/reports.py`: |
|
|
| ```python |
| class UnifiedFaceReport(BaseModel): |
| # ... existing fields ... |
| ocr_results: List[OCRResult] = Field(default_factory=list) |
| object_detections: List[ObjectDetection] = Field(default_factory=list) |
| image_embeddings: List[ImageEmbedding] = Field(default_factory=list) |
| nsfw_assessments: List[NSFWAssessment] = Field(default_factory=list) |
| # ... etc for each new capability |
| ``` |
|
|
| --- |
|
|
| ## 9. Risk Assessment |
|
|
| | Risk | Mitigation | |
| |---|---| |
| | **PaddlePaddle is a large dependency (~500MB)** | Make optional; fall back to Tesseract if not installed | |
| | **YOLOv8 is AGPL-3.0** | Document license clearly; offer Detectron2 (Apache) as alternative | |
| | **InsightFace model weights are large (~330MB)** | Download on first use; cache in `data/models/` | |
| | **CLIP requires PyTorch + transformers** | Already a dependency for other providers | |
| | **NudeNet is GPL-3.0** | Document license; alternative is Yahoo open_nsfw (BSD) | |
| | **Deepfake detection accuracy <80%** | Mark as experimental; do not use as sole evidence | |
| | **ExifTool requires system install** | Document in deployment guide; fall back to Pillow | |
| | **GPU required for production speed** | Document CPU vs GPU benchmarks; provide both paths | |
| | **Model downloads on first run** | Pre-download in Dockerfile; provide `scripts/download_models.py` | |
|
|
| --- |
|
|
| ## 10. Sources |
|
|
| ### Repositories surveyed (top 50) |
|
|
| | Repository | URL | Stars | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | InsightFace | https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface | 25k | |
| | DeepFace | https://github.com/serengil/deepface | 16k | |
| | PaddleOCR | https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR | 45k | |
| | Tesseract | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract | 60k | |
| | EasyOCR | https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR | 24k | |
| | Ultralytics | https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics | 25k | |
| | Detectron2 | https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2 | 30k | |
| | MMDetection | https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection | 28k | |
| | YOLO-World | https://github.com/ailab-cvc/yolo-world | 4k | |
| | IQA-PyTorch | https://github.com/chaofengc/iqa-pytorch | 1.5k | |
| | idealo/image-quality-assessment | https://github.com/idealo/image-quality-assessment | 600 | |
| | NudeNet | https://github.com/notAI-tech/NudeNet | 2.5k | |
| | GantMan/nsfw_model | https://github.com/gantman/nsfw_model | 1.5k | |
| | Yahoo open_nsfw | https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw | 1k | |
| | imagehash | https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash | 3k | |
| | imagededup | https://github.com/idealo/imagededup | 2.5k | |
| | ufoid | https://github.com/immobiliare/ufoid | 200 | |
| | DeepfakeBench | https://github.com/sclbd/deepfakebench | 1.5k | |
| | Ray9T/Detect-image-manipulation | https://github.com/Ray9T/Detect-image-manipulation | 500 | |
| | Awesome-Deepfake-Detection | https://github.com/qiqitao77/Awesome-Comprehensive-Deepfake-Detection | 1k | |
| | Daisy-Zhang/Awesome-Deepfakes-Detection | https://github.com/Daisy-Zhang/Awesome-Deepfakes-Detection | 800 | |
| | CLIP (OpenAI) | https://github.com/openai/CLIP | 25k | |
| | HuggingFace transformers | https://github.com/huggingface/transformers | 130k | |
| | FAISS | https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss | 30k | |
| | Milvus | https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus | 30k | |
| | ExifTool | https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool | 1.5k | |
| | metadata-extractor-dotnet | https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor-dotnet | 1k | |
| | OpenLogo (QMUL) | https://qmul-openlogo.github.io | — | |
| | DeepLogo | https://github.com/satojkovic/DeepLogo | 300 | |
| | Google Landmark Challenge | https://github.com/adityasurana/Google-Landmark-Recognition-Challenge | 100 | |
| | img2loc | https://github.com/fyhuang/img2loc | 100 | |
| | Awesome-Geolocalization | https://github.com/SparrowZheyuan18/Awesome-Geolocalization | 500 | |
| | invisible-watermark | https://github.com/ShieldMnt/invisible-watermark | 200 | |
| | Awesome-GenAI-Watermarking | https://github.com/and-mill/Awesome-GenAI-Watermarking | 300 | |
| | InsightFace-REST | https://github.com/SthPhoenix/InsightFace-REST | 1k | |
| | Awesome-Image-Quality-Assessment | https://github.com/chaofengc/Awesome-Image-Quality-Assessment | 1k | |
| | RapidOCR (PaddleOCR fork) | https://github.com/RapidAI/RapidOCR | 3k | |
| | Awesome Computer Vision | https://github.com/awesomelistsio/awesome-computer-vision | 2k | |
| | Awesome Machine Learning | https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning | 65k | |
|
|
| ### HuggingFace models surveyed |
|
|
| | Model | URL | Use | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | openai/clip-vit-base-patch32 | https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-base-patch32 | Image embeddings | |
| | Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base | https://huggingface.co/Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base | Image captioning | |
| | Marqo/nsfw-image-detection-384 | https://huggingface.co/Marqo/nsfw-image-detection-384 | Lightweight NSFW | |
| | Falcons-ai/basic_nsfw_detection | https://huggingface.co/Falconsai/nsfw_image_detection | NSFW classification | |
|
|
| ### Datasets surveyed |
|
|
| | Dataset | Size | Use | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | Google Landmark v2 | 5M images, 200k landmarks | Landmark recognition | |
| | OpenLogo | 27k images, 352 classes | Logo detection | |
| | WiderFace | 32k images | Face detection benchmark | |
| | LFW | 13k images | Face recognition benchmark | |
| | Deepfake-Eval-2024 | In-the-wild deepfakes | Deepfake detection benchmark | |
| | im2GPS | 6M geotagged images | Image geolocation | |
|
|
| --- |
|
|
| ## Appendix A: Quick-start checklist for adding a Tier-1 provider |
|
|
| ```bash |
| # 1. Create the provider file |
| touch providers/ocr/paddleocr_provider.py |
| |
| # 2. Implement following the haar.py pattern (see §8 for examples) |
| |
| # 3. Add manifest entry in providers/registry.py |
| # ManifestEntry("paddleocr", "providers.ocr.paddleocr_provider", |
| # "PaddleOCRProvider", ProviderCapability.OCR, |
| # "enable_paddleocr", "PaddleOCR — best multilingual OCR"), |
| |
| # 4. Add settings flag in config/settings.py |
| # enable_paddleocr: bool = False |
| |
| # 5. (If new capability) Update models/providers.py + models/reports.py |
| # + normalization/merger.py + confidence/engine.py + services/analysis_service.py |
| # + api/routes/analysis.py |
| |
| # 6. Write tests in tests/providers/test_paddleocr.py |
| |
| # 7. Run tests |
| python -m pytest tests/providers/test_paddleocr.py -v |
| |
| # 8. Update docs/PROVIDERS.md reference table |
| ``` |
|
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| --- |
|
|
| ## Appendix B: License compatibility matrix |
|
|
| | License | Commercial use OK? | Notes | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | MIT | ✅ | Most permissive | |
| | Apache-2.0 | ✅ | Patent grant included | |
| | BSD-2/3-Clause | ✅ | Permissive | |
| | LGPL | ✅ (with care) | Linking restrictions | |
| | GPL-3.0 | ⚠️ | Derivative works must be GPL | |
| | AGPL-3.0 | ⚠️ | Network use triggers source disclosure | |
| | Research-only | ❌ | Research models — verify license before commercial use | |
|
|
| **Recommended default:** Prefer MIT/Apache-2.0 for production. Use |
| GPL/AGPL providers only with clear documentation of obligations. |
|
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| *End of research report.* |
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