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A multibiometrics-based CAPTCHA for improved online security
B.M. Powell, A. Kumar, J. Thapar, G. Goswami, , , A. Noore
Published in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
2016
Abstract
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) have been a common tool for preventing unauthorized access to websites for over a decade, but increasingly sophisticated optical character recognition algorithms and attack strategies have rendered traditional CAPTCHAs insecure. In this paper, we propose a new CAPTCHA incorporating multiple biometric modalities. Users are asked to identify faces, eyes, and fingerprints in a complex composite image. With over 1,900 volunteers and 30,000+ attempts, the proposed approach achieves high human accuracy while being resistant to existing attacks on CAPTCHAs and to detection by state-of-the-art software. © 2016 IEEE.