1. A method comprising: capturing a visual object being transmitted over a network; selecting a subset of the visual object; decompressing the selected subset of the visual object to a colorspace representation to expose each pixel of the selected subset of the visual object; determining a contribution of each pixel to a plurality of image types; determining an image type of the visual object based on the contribution of each pixel to the plurality of image types, the determined image type being one of the plurality of image types.