Detecting phishing web pages with visual similarity assessment based on Earth Mover's Distance (EMD)

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 301-311

  Fu, Anthony Y ^b   Liu, Wenyin ^a,b   Deng, Xiaotie ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Antiphishing; Earth Mover's Distance; Visual assessment

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ANTIPHISHING; CLASSIFICATION PRECISION; EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE (EMD); SIGNATURE DISTANCES; VISUAL ASSESSMENT;

WEBSITES;

EID: 33751538239     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2006.50     Document Type: Article

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