• DocumentCode
    110244
  • Title

    On Random Field Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart Generation

  • Author

    Kouritzin, M.A. ; Newton, F. ; Biao Wu

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math. & Stat. Sci., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Apr-13
  • Firstpage
    1656
  • Lastpage
    1666
  • Abstract
    Herein, we propose generating CAPTCHAs through random field simulation and give a novel, effective and efficient algorithm to do so. Indeed, we demonstrate that sufficient information about word tests for easy human recognition is contained in the site marginal probabilities and the site-to-nearby-site covariances and that these quantities can be embedded directly into certain conditional probabilities, designed for effective simulation. The CAPTCHAs are then partial random realizations of the random CAPTCHA word. We start with an initial random field (e.g., randomly scattered letter pieces) and use Gibbs resampling to re-simulate portions of the field repeatedly using these conditional probabilities until the word becomes human-readable. The residual randomness from the initial random field together with the random implementation of the CAPTCHA word provide significant resistance to attack. This results in a CAPTCHA, which is unrecognizable to modern optical character recognition but is recognized about 95% of the time in a human readability study.
  • Keywords
    character recognition; CAPTCHA; Gibbs resampling; character recognition; human readability; human recognition; random field completely automated public turing test; random field simulation; the site-to-nearby-site covariances; CAPTCHAs; Character recognition; Markov random fields; Optical character recognition software; Image processing; Markov random field; security; simulation; statistical information compression; Computer Security; Computer Simulation; Computers; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Markov Chains; Models, Statistical; Pattern Recognition, Automated; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1057-7149
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIP.2012.2236342
  • Filename
    6399597