Towards Creating a Darknet Image Database

York Yannikos, Marc Leon Agel, Julian Heeger, Lukas Graner, Martin Steinebach

Abstract: With the increasing popularity of the darknet, especially the Tor network, all kinds of multimedia data are shared anonymously, most of them being images. While several reverse image search engines are available for the clearnet, no suitable solutions exist for the darknet. Uncertainty about the image content that can be found on the darknet and the legal implications of collecting such images probably contribute to the fact that image databases typically do not include content from the darknet. However, a darknet image database could be helpful for researchers or law enforcement, e.g. to search for identical or similar images on the darknet and the clearnet in order to derive information about their creators.

External IDs:dblp:conf/IEEEares/YannikosAHGS25