Title :
Designing CAPTCHA Algorithm: Splitting and Rotating the Images against OCRs
Author :
Ince, Ibrahim Furkan ; Yengin, Ilker ; Salman, Yucel Batu ; Cho, Hwan-Gue ; Yang, Tae-Cheon
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Digital Design, Kyungsung Univ., Busan
Abstract :
Internet is being used for several activities by a great range of users. These activities include communication, e-commerce, education, and entertainment. Users are required to register regarding Website in order to enroll Web activities. However, registration can be done by automated hacking software. That software make false enrollments which occupy the resources of the Website by reducing the performance and efficiency of servers, even stop the entire Web service. It is crucial for the Websites to have a system which has the capability of differing human users and computer programs in reading images of text. Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and human apart (CAPTCHA) is such a defense system against optical character recognition (OCR) software. OCR can be defined as a software which work for defeating CAPTCHA images and make countless number of registration on the Websites. This study focuses on a new method which is splitting CAPTCHA images into several parts with random rotation values, and drawing random lines on a grid background. Lines are in the same color with the CAPTCHA text and they provide a distortion of image with grid background. In this paper, the algorithm of our method is introduced in detail.
Keywords :
Internet; Turing machines; computer crime; image colour analysis; optical character recognition; Internet; Web service; Web site; automated hacking software; communication; completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and human apart algorithm; ecommerce; education; entertainment; image rotating; image splitting; optical character recognition software; servers; Algorithm design and analysis; Automatic testing; Computer crime; Humans; Internet; Optical character recognition software; Software performance; Software testing; System testing; Web services; CAPTCHA; Internet; OCR;
Conference_Titel :
Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology, 2008. ICCIT '08. Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3407-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIT.2008.195