Handwritten CAPTCHA: Using the Difference in the Abilities of Humans and Machines in Reading Handwritten Words

  • Authors:
  • Amalia Rusu;Venu Govindaraju

  • Affiliations:
  • University at Buffalo;University at Buffalo

  • Venue:
  • IWFHR '04 Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2004

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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.