• 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.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.50-56
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• 2009

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 software which work for defeating CAPTCHA images and make countless number of registrations on the websites. This study proposes a new CAPTCHA context that is Korean CAPTCHA by means of the method which is splitting CAPTCHA images into several parts with random rotation values, and drawing random lines on a grid background by using Korean characters only. Lines are in the same color with the CAPTCHA text and they provide a distortion of image with grid background. Experimental results show that Korean CAPTCHA is a more secure and effective CAPTCHA type for Korean users rather than current CAPTCHA types due to the structure of Korean letters and the algorithm we are using: rotation and splitting. In this paper, the algorithm of our method is introduced in detail.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.25-34
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• 2017

Autoencoder is a type of deep learning method where input layer and output layer are the same, and effectively extracts and restores characteristics of input vector using constraints of hidden layer. In this paper, we propose methods of Autoencoders to remove a natural background image which is a noise to the CAPTCHA and recover only a numerical images by applying various autoencoder models to a region where one number of CAPTCHA images and a natural background are mixed. The suitability of the reconstructed image is verified by using the softmax function with the output of the autoencoder as an input. And also, we compared the proposed methods with the other method and showed that our methods are superior than others.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.1071-1092
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• 2014

Annotating images with tags that describe the content of the images facilitates image retrieval. However, this task is challenging for both humans and computers. In response, a new approach has been proposed that converts the manual image annotation task into CAPTCHA challenges. However, this approach has not been widely used because of its weak security and the fact that it can be applied only to annotate for a specific type of attribute clearly separated into mutually exclusive categories (e.g., gender). In this paper, we propose a novel image annotation CAPTCHA scheme, which can successfully differentiate between humans and computers, annotate image content difficult to separate into mutually exclusive categories, and generate verified test images difficult for computers to identify but easy for humans. To test its feasibility, we applied our scheme to annotate images of human faces with their age groups and conducted user studies. The results showed that our proposed system, called AgeCAPTCHA, annotated images of human faces with high reliability, yet the process was completed by the subjects quickly and accurately enough for practical use. As a result, we have not only verified the effectiveness of our scheme but also increased the applicability of image annotation CAPTCHAs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06d
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• pp.101-105
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• 2010

현재 인터넷 보급의 우수한 발달로 인해 우리는 정보의 바다 또는 인터넷 시대에 살고 있다. 우리는 이러한 인터넷 시대에 살고 있는 만큼 많은 정보를 인터넷을 통하여 검색하고 원하고자 하는 정보를 인터넷을 통해 얻고 있다. 하지만 인터넷을 통하여 웹서핑 또는 정보를 검색하다보면 스팸이나 자동화 도구를 이용하여 광고성 또는 해당 정보와는 상관없는 글들이 무수히 등록되어 있는 것을 볼 수 있다. 이와 같은 것을 방지하기 위하여 CAPTCHA 시스템이 개발되었다. 하지만 기존에 존재하는 CATPCHA 시스템은 텍스트 기반의 시스템이고, 현재 쉽게 통과될 수 있는 많은 기법들이 제시되고 있다. 그리하여 우리는 이러한 단점을 보완하고자 새로운 이미지 기반의 CAPTCHA 시스템을 전 연구를 통하여 새롭게 제안했다[4]. 제안된 시스템은 일반적인 이미지에서 사각형 형태의 서브 이미지를 추출, 추출된 서브 이미지를 무작위 회전을 가하여 사용자에게 올바른 교정을 통해 사용자를 인증하였다. 우리는 이와 같은 연구를 바탕으로 본 논문에서는 서브 이미지를 추출 시 정사각형의 형태가 아닌 N다각형의 형태를 통하여 서브 이미지를 추출한다. 본 논문에서는 N다각형 형태의 서브 이미지 추출시 전 연구와는 다른 방법으로 서브 이미지를 추출하고, 실험을 통하여 사용자에게 가장 인식률이 높은 다각형을 찾고, 전 연구와는 다른 방법의 서브 이미지 추출 방법을 통해 사용자에게 보다 효과적인 서브 이미지를 제공한다. 본 논문에서 제공되는 다각형은 정삼각형에서부터 정16각형이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.241-244
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• 2011

Recently, Due to development of Internet techniques, user suddenly increased that Used of Web services and with out constraints of place and time has been provided. typically, Web services used ID/Password authentication. User confirmed personal data Stored on Web servers after user authorized. web service provider is to provide variety security techniques for the protection personal information. However, recently accident has happened is the malicious attackers may capture user information such as users entered personal information through new keyboard hooking. In this paper, we propose a keyboard hooking protected password input method using CAPTCHA. The proposed password input method is based on entering the password using mouse click or touch pad on the CAPTCHA image. The mapping of CAPTCHA image pixels is random.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.734-750
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• 2012

CAPTCHAs are automated tests that are there to avoid misuse of computing and information resources by bots. Typical text-based CAPTCHAs are proven to be vulnerable against malicious automated programs. In this paper, we present an image-based CAPTCHA scheme using easily identifiable human appearance characteristics that overcomes the weaknesses of current text-based schemes. We propose and evaluate two applications for our scheme involving 25 participants. Both applications use same characteristics but different classes against those characteristics. Application 1 is optimized for security while application 2 is optimized for usability. Experimental evaluation shows promising results having 83% human success rate with Application 2 as compared to 62% with Application 1.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.95-104
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• 2013

DDoS attacks have became as a social threat since 2009 7.7 DDoS turmoil. Even though defence techniques have been developing to provide against those threats, they become much more sophisticate. In recent years, the attack form of DDoS is changing from high amount of traffic attack of network layers to highly sophisticate small amount of application layers. To make matters worse, attack agent for the attack has became very intelligent so that it is difficult to be blocked since it can't be distinguished from normal PCs. In the user authentication system(such as CAPTCHA) User intervention is required to distinguish normal PCs and intelligent attack agents and in particular, in a NAT environment, IP-based blocking method can be cut off the normal users traffic at the same time. This research examined defense techniques which are able to distinguish between agent and normal PC and effectively block ways the HTTP DDoS offense applying one-time session key based authentication method using Cookie which is used in HTTP protocol to protect web sever from sophisticate application layer of DDoS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.291-293
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• 2023

위치정보 표시 및 심박수를 이용한 운동강도 표시 앱을 개발하는 주요 목적은 개인의 건강 상태를 관리하고 개선하기 위함이다. 건강관리의 가장 기본적인 수단은 운동이다. 운동 중에서도 유산소 운동은 체력을 증가시키고 몸무게도 줄일 수 있는 등 가장 효과적인 운동이면서도, 누구나 큰 준비 없이 마음만 먹으면 할 수 있는 가장 기본적인 운동이라고 생각했다. 유산소 운동을 할 때 위치정보를 표시하고 심박수를 측정하여 운동강도를 표시해준다면 운동에 큰 도움이 될 것으로 생각했다. 위치정보 표시 및 심박수 센서를 이용한 운동강도 표시 앱으로 심박수, 이동 거리 등을 추적하고 기록하며, 이를 통해 심박수 상태를 확인하고 운동강도를 조절함으로써 효과적으로 운동할 수 있을 것으로 예상된다. 또한 reCaptcha를 이용하여 사람과 악성봇을 구별 가능하게 하여 보안성을 높였다.