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

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 226-231

  Rusu, Amalia ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CAPTCHA; CHALLENGE RESPONSE PROTOCOLS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HUMAN INTERACTIVE PROOF (HIP); SPAM; TURING TESTS; WEB SECURITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

CODES (SYMBOLS); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SECURITY OF DATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 18044361917     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWFHR.2004.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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