Most of the handwritten text challenges are usually either more severe or not encountered in
machine-printed text. In contrast to the traditional role of handwriting recognition in various …

Handwritten text offers challenges that are rarely encountered in machine-printed text. In
addition, most problems faced in reading machine-printed text (eg, character recognition …

The recently initiated and rapidly developing research field of 'human interactive
proofs'(HIPs) and its implications for the document image analysis (DIA) research field are …

Web services offered for human use are being abused by programs. Efforts to defend
against these abuses have, over the last 5 years, stimulated the development of a new …

Automated recognition of unconstrained handwriting continues to be a challenging research
task. In contrast to the traditional role of handwriting recognition in applications such as …

Authentication is the act of confirming the truth of an attribute of a datum or entity. This might
involve confirming the identity of a person, tracing the origins of an artefact, ensuring that a …

Automated web tools are used to achieve a wide range of different tasks, some of which are
legal activities, whilst others are considered attacks to the security and data integrity of …

This work attempts to find a practical and effective solution to prevent massive and
automated access to web resources. The basic idea is to avoid that a large quantity of …

Automatic person identification is one of the major concerns in this era of automation.
However, this is not a new problem and our society has adopted several different ways to …

Human Interactive Proofs (HIPs) are automatic inverse Turing tests, which are intended to
differentiate between people and malicious computer programs. The mission of making …