Reducing the cost of breaking audio captchas by active and semi-supervised learning

Proceedings - 2014 13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, ICMLA 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 67-73

  Darnstadt, Malte ^a   Meutzner, Hendrik ^a   Kolossa, Dorothea ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

active learning; audio CAPTCHA; automatic speech recognition; semi supervised learning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; ELECTRONIC MAIL FILTERS; INTERNET; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACTIVE LEARNING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CAPTCHAS; CHALLENGE RESPONSE; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; SEMI- SUPERVISED LEARNING; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

SUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 84946690675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2014.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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