• DocumentCode
    2358100
  • Title

    Avatar CAPTCHA: Telling computers and humans apart via face classification

  • Author

    Souza, Darryl D. ; Polina, Phani C. ; Yampolskiy, Roman V.

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    6-8 May 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    This paper introduces Avatar CAPTCHA, an image based approach to distinguish human users from computer programs (bots). The proposed CAPTCHA asks users to identify avatar faces from a set of 12 grayscale images comprised of a mix of human and avatar faces. Experimental results indicate that it can be solved 62% of the time by human users with an average success time of 24 seconds and a positive user rating of 90%. It is designed to be secure against computer programs (bots). Using brute force attack the success rate for a bot to solve it is 1/4096.
  • Keywords
    Turing machines; avatars; face recognition; human computer interaction; image classification; CAPTCHA; avatar face identification; bot; brute force attack; computer program; face classification; grayscale image; human face; image based approach; Avatars; Computers; Databases; Face; Gray-scale; Humans; Security; ASIRRA; CAPTCHA; avatars; bots; security;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electro/Information Technology (EIT), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Indianapolis, IN
  • ISSN
    2154-0357
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0819-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EIT.2012.6220734
  • Filename
    6220734