RescueBox preview release available!
RescueLab is proud to announce that we have released a preview of our new application, RescueBox. We are looking for users to try out the preview, and to give us feedback that we can incorporate for the next version.
RescueBox is an open-source, free tool available to all. It is designed to give investigators access to free, machine learning tools that are useful in investigations of child exploitation. We would greatly appreciate your feedback!
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You can download the software directly from these links.
Windows software (2.3GB)
The download contains documentation including a product overview, installation notes, and RescueBox usage.
This release has been tested on Windows 11 with 64-bit hardware. The software does work if you run it on a machine with only a CPU; try it out with a few images or audio files. However for large-scale work, because the processing is dependent on machine learning models, you won't see good performance unless you run on a machine that has a modern NVIDIA GPU card. Something like 4090 or 5090 or better for large amounts of files.
The software is free of charge. UMass Amherst is research university and a non-profit: our plan to continue development of this open source software is by seeking funding for this work from sponsors. While we seek this funding, we are indeed offering free support for the software for its users. Please ask for our help, offer feedback, and submit bug reports using this form. Again, please note that there is documentation in the windows download.
You can read more about the project from these slides.