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Handwritten CAPTCHA: Using the difference in the abilities of humans and machines in reading handwritten words

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Abstract

Handwritten text offers challenges that are rarely encountered in machine-printed text. In addition, most problems faced in reading machine-printed text (e.g., character recognition, word segmentation, letter segmentation, etc.) are more severe, in handwritten text. In this paper we present the application of Human Interactive Proofs (HIP), which is a relatively new research area with the primary focus of defending online services against abusive attacks. It uses a set of security protocols based on automatic tests that humans can pass but the state-of-the-art computer programs cannot. This is accomplished by exploiting the differential in the proficiency between humans and computers in reading handwritten word images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - Ninth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR-9 2004
EditorsF. Kimura, H. Fujisawa
Pages226-231
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
EventProceedings - Ninth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR-9 2004 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: Oct 26 2004Oct 29 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR
ISSN (Print)1550-5235

Conference

ConferenceProceedings - Ninth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR-9 2004
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period10/26/0410/29/04

Keywords

  • CAPTCHA
  • Challenge Response Protocol
  • Handwriting Recognition
  • Human Interactive proof (HIP)
  • OCR
  • SPAM
  • Turing tests
  • Web security
  • Word Recognition

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