A Multilingual Handwriting Approach to CAPTCHA

Amalia Rusu; Steve Mislich; Lukas Missik; Benjamin Schenker

doi:10.1109/IV.2013.26

A Multilingual Handwriting Approach to CAPTCHA

Amalia Rusu, Steve Mislich, Lukas Missik, Benjamin Schenker

Fairfield University

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Abstract

Nowadays World Wide Web makes use of Human Interactive Proofs and CAPTCHA to distinguish legitimate users from bots. This paper presents an overview of current systems and their weaknesses and proposes a unified theory for a multilingual handwriting CAPTCHA. We further describe our French and Spanish CAPTCHAs, as an extension to the English version, with the potential of being more useful on websites in those languages. Highly interdisciplinary techniques used to generate our CAPTCHAs are also discussed.

Original language	American English
Journal	Information Visualisation (IV), 2013 17th International Conference
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2013.26
State	Published - Jul 1 2013

Keywords

CAPTCHA
Gestalt laws of perception
HCI
Web security
visual analytics
handwriting recognition

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Engineering

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