EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Steven A. Ross
dblp:46/8024
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2010
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-authorApplied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Authentication and access control · 77% Usable security · 23% | |
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Rendering · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Authentication and access control › human interactive proofs
CAPTCHA |
0.1 | 1 | 2010 | Sketcha: a captcha based on line drawings of 3D models · WWW 2010 |
Rendering › stroke-based rendering
line rendering |
0.0 | 1 | 2010 | Sketcha: a captcha based on line drawings of 3D models · WWW 2010 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
user study · 0.2machine learning attack · 0.2covert filtering · 0.2
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Sketcha: a captcha based on line drawings of 3D modelsabstractThis paper introduces a captcha based on upright orientation of line drawings rendered from 3D models. The models are selected from a large database, and images are rendered from random viewpoints, affording many different drawings from a single 3D model. The captcha presents the user with a set of images, and the user must choose an upright orientation for each image. This task generally requires understanding of the semantic content of the image, which is believed to be difficult for automatic algorithms. We describe a process called covert filtering whereby the image database can be continually refreshed with drawings that are known to have a high success rate for humans, by inserting randomly into the captcha new images to be evaluated. Our analysis shows that covert filtering can ensure that captchas are likely to be solvable by humans while deterring attackers who wish to learn a portion of the database. We performed several user studies that evaluate how effectively people can solve the captcha. Comparing these results to an attack based on machine learning, we find that humans possess a substantial performance advantage over computers. Steven A. Ross, J. Alex Halderman, Adam Finkelstein |
WWW | 1 |