Volume 8 Issue 2 - March 2017

  • 1. A review paper on image spam filtering

    Authors : Sneha Nikam, Rujata Chaudhari

    Pages : 307-313

    DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.21172/1.82.041

    Keywords : Spam; Email spam; Image spam; spam filter

    Abstract :

    Now-a-days, use of internet has become an inseparable part of our day-to-day life. Wide usage of internet such as, social network, Emails, Marketing, Advertising etc., results in online communication and information exchange. This attracts spiteful users to social network as well, leading towards sending unrequested messages in bulk quantity, with obtaining unambig-uous permission of receiver i.e. “Spam”. Spam is nothing but unwanted messages. Over a last decade, unwanted messages, has become a major problem for users e.g., large amount of spam E-mails into user’s mailboxes. Not necessary Spam will be in textual form always, it can be in image form as well, e.g. advertisement text in images attached to emails. There are various methodolo-gies have been developed to fight with this problem. The main purpose to write this paper is to take review of what is image spam, working of spam filters, methods to identify spam along with Spam filtering techniques for an image based spam.

    Citing this Journal Article :

    Sneha Nikam, Rujata Chaudhari, "A review paper on image spam filtering ", Volume 8 Issue 2 - March 2017, 307-313