Steven A. Ross

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Authentication and access control › human interactive proofs
CAPTCHA
0.112010
Sketcha: a captcha based on line drawings of 3D models · WWW 2010
Rendering › stroke-based rendering
line rendering
0.012010
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2010 Sketcha: a captcha based on line drawings of 3D models
abstract
This 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
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