• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.873-877
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• 2010

CAPTCHA is a security tool that prevents the automatic sign-up by a spam or a robot. This CAPTCHA usually depends on the smart readability of humans. However, the common and plain CAPTCHA with text-based system is not difficult to be solved by intelligent web-bot and machine learning tools. In this paper, we propose a new sub-image based CAPTCHA system totally different from the text based system. Our system offers a set of cropped sub-image from a whole digital picture and asks user to identify the correct orientation. Though there are some nice machine learning tools for this job, but they are useless for a cropped sub-images, which was clearly revealed by our experiment. Experiment showed that our sub-image based CAPTCHA is easy to human solver, but very hard to all kinds of machine learning or AI tools. Also our CAPTCHA is easy to be generated automatical without any human intervention.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.933-935
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• 2014

휴대전화 사용의 대중화로 인하여 개개인의 휴대전화로 수신되는 스팸메시지의 양도 덩달아 증가하게 되었다. 이것은 휴대전화 사용자가 불법광고 노출의 원인이 되고 있다. 이에 많은 스팸메시지 차단기법이 제시되었지만 이는 텍스트기반의 문자메시지에 특화되어있어 문자가 포함되어있는 이미지스팸에는 차단이 어렵다는 문제점이 존재 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 휴대전화로 오는 이미지메시지 중 스팸이미지를 검출해 내는 모바일 스팸이미지 필터링 시스템을 제시하고자 한다. 제시하고자 하는 시스템은 스팸이미지를 분석하여 이미지의 패턴을 검사하여 특정 패턴이 포함된 이미지에 대해서 스팸이미지로 분류하여 필터링하게 됨으로써, 실제 휴대전화로 수신되는 스팸이미지를 이용한 실험을 진행하였다. 그 결과 기존 텍스트기반 스팸필터링시스템에서 할 수 없었던 스팸이미지 필터링을 할 수 있음을 확인 하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.105-112
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• 2009

Nowadays, completely automated public turing tests to tell computers and humans apart(CAPTCHAs) are widely used to prevent various attacks by automated software agents such as creating accounts, advertising, sending spam mails, and so on. In early CAPTCHAs, the characters were simply distorted, so that users could easily recognize the characters. From that reason, using various techniques such as image processing, artificial intelligence, etc., one could easily break many CAPTCHAs, either. As an alternative, By adding noise to CAPTCHAs and distorting the characters in CAPTCHAs, it made the attacks to CAPTCHA more difficult. Naturally, it also made users more difficult to read the characters in CAPTCHAs. To improve the readability of CAPTCHAs, some CAPTCHAs used different colors for the characters. However, the usage of the different colors gives advantages to the adversary who wants to break CAPTCHAs. In this paper, we suggest a method of increasing the recognition ratio of CAPTCHAs based on colors.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.192-200
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• 2008

To evaluate the hemodynamic changes and the predictive factors of the clinical outcome in pediatric patients with moyamoya disease, we analyzed pre/post basal/acetazolamide stress brain perfusion SPECT with automated volume of interest (VOIs) method. Methods: Total fifty six (M:F = 33:24, age $6.7{\pm}3.2$ years) pediatric patients with moyamoya disease, who underwent basal/acetazolamide stress brain perfusion SPECT within 6 before and after revascularization surgery (encephalo-duro-arterio-synangiosis (EDAS) with frontal encephalo-galeo-synangiosis (EGS) and EDAS only followed on contralateral hemisphere), and followed-up more than 6 months after post-operative SPECT, were included. A mean follow-up period after post-operative SPECT was $33{\pm}21$ months. Each patient's SPECT image was spatially normalized to Korean template with the SPM2. For the regional count normalization, the count of pons was used as a reference region. The basal/acetazolamide-stressed cerebral blood flow (CBF), the cerebral vascular reserve index (CVRI), and the extent of area with significantly decreased basal/acetazolamide- stressed rCBF than age-matched normal control were evaluated on both medial frontal, frontal, parietal, occipital lobes, and whole brain in each patient's images. The post-operative clinical outcome was assigned as good, poor according to the presence of transient ischemic attacks and/or fixed neurological deficits by pediatric neurosurgeon. Results: In a paired t-test, basal/acetazolamide-stressed rCBF and the CVRI were significantly improved after revascularization (p<0.05). The significant difference in the pre-operative basal/acetazolamide-stressed rCBF and the CVRI between the hemispheres where EDAS with frontal EGS was performed and their contralateral counterparts where EDAS only was done disappeared after operation (p<0.05). In an independent student t-test, the pre-operative basal rCBF in the medial frontal gyrus, the post-operative CVRI in the frontal lobe and the parietal lobe of the hemispheres with EDAS and frontal EGS, the post-operative CVRI, and ${\Delta}CVRI$ showed a significant difference between patients with a good and poor clinical outcome (p<0.05). In a multivariate logistic regression analysis, the ${\Delta}CVRI$ and the post-operative CVRI of medial frontal gyrus on the hemispheres where EDAS with frontal EGS was performed were the significant predictive factors for the clinical outcome (p =0.002, p =0.015), Conclusion: With probabilistic map, we could objectively evaluate pre/post-operative hemodynamic changes of pediatric patients with moyamoya disease. Specifically the post-operative CVRI and the post-operative CVRI of medial frontal gyrus where EDAS with frontal EGS was done were the significant predictive factors for further clinical outcomes.