Synthetic handwritten CAPTCHAs

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3365-3373

  Thomas, Achint Oommen ^a   Rusu, Amalia ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

CAPTCHA; Handwriting generation; HIP

Indexed keywords

CAPTCHA; CAPTCHAS; GENERATION METHOD; HANDWRITING GENERATION; HIP; HUMAN RECOGNITION; MACHINE RECOGNITION; PRINTED TEXTS; READING PROFICIENCY; TEST RESULTS; TEXT RECOGNITION; TURING TESTS;

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EID: 68349118954     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.12.018     Document Type: Article

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