The GRACE project's 2nd Pilot started with an initial one week exercise session held in Lisbon from the 17th to 21st of October 2022, at the premises of Policia Judiciaria (PJ).
The exercise was divided into two main modules: in a first stage, a group of LEA experts processed a large volume of images and videos containing material related to the sexual exploitation of minors (CSEM), annotating it with classification tags that will be used for training task specific ML algorithms; then 14 tools for processing images and audio and text files were tested on operational data and assessed by the present LEAs.
From the 28th to 30th of November 2022, a new exercise session will take place, aiming to monitor the development progress of the GRACE platform, more specifically, the use of a user friendly Collaborative Platform for the management and semi-supervised analysis of then NCMEC reports. This constitutes the first, alpha testing of the GRACE platform, which final version is expected in one year's time.
We thank our host PJ for their hospitality and large engagement in technical preparation and arrangements of their facilities for the GRACE pilot needs.