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Using Character Recognition and Segmentation to Tell Computer from Humans

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Using Character Recognition and Segmentation to Tell Computer from Humans
How do you tell a computer from a human? The situation arises often on the Internet, when online polls are conducted, accounts are requested, undesired email is received, and chat-rooms are spammed. The approach we use is to create a visual challenge that is easy for humans but difficult for a computer. More specifically, our challenge is to recognize a string of random distorted characters. To pass the challenge, the subject must type in the correct corresponding ASCII string. From an OCR point of view, this problem is interesting because our goal is to use the vast amount of accumulated knowledge to defeat the state of the art OCR algorithms. This is a role reversal from traditional OCR research. Unlike many other systems, our algorithm is based on the assumption that segmentation is much more difficult than recognition. Our image challenges present hard segmentation problems that humans are particularly apt at solving. The technology is currently being used in MSN’s Hotmail regis...
Patrice Y. Simard, Richard Szeliski, Josh Benaloh,
Added 04 Jul 2010
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where ICDAR
Authors Patrice Y. Simard, Richard Szeliski, Josh Benaloh, Julien Couvreur, Iulian Calinov
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