[P] AppleNeuralHash2ONNX: Reverse-Engineered Apple NeuralHash, in ONNX and Python : MachineLearning

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2021-08-18 16:00:11

As you may already know Apple is going to implement NeuralHash algorithm for on-device CSAM detection soon. Believe it or not, this algorithm already exists as early as iOS 14.3, hidden under obfuscated class names. After some digging and reverse engineering on the hidden APIs I managed to export its model (which is MobileNetV3) to ONNX and rebuild the whole NeuralHash algorithm in Python. You can now try NeuralHash even on Linux!

No pre-exported model file will be provided here for obvious reasons. But it's very easy to export one yourself following the guide I included with the repo above. You don't even need any Apple devices to do it.

Hope this will help us understand NeuralHash algorithm better and know its potential issues before it's enabled on all iOS devices.

Incredible work if true - can you explain more about how you know that the model extracted is the same NeuralHash that will be used for CSAM detection?