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Automated certificate authorities (CAs) have expanded the reach of public key infrastructure on the web and for software signing. The certificates that these CAs issue attest to proof of control of some digital identity. Some of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zachary Newman

Some historical and more recent printed documents have been scanned or stored at very low resolutions, such as 60 dpi. Though such scans are relatively easy for humans to read, they still present significant challenges for optical character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Julian D. Gilbey , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Human Interactive Proofs (HIPs) are automatic reverse Turing tests designed to distinguish between various groups of users. Completely Automatic Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) is a HIP system that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Sushma Yalamanchili , M. Kameswara Rao

Recent spam email techniques exploit visual effects in text messages, such as poisoning text, obfuscating words, and hidden text salting techniques. These effects were able to evade spam detection techniques based on the text. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ali Hossary , Stefano Tomasin

In this paper I have proposed a method to find the major pixel intensity inside the text and thresholding an image accordingly to make it easier to be used for optical character recognition (OCR) models. In our method, instead of editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Rohan Lal Kshetry

We propose randomized frameproof codes for content protection, which arise by studying a variation of the Boneh-Shaw fingerprinting problem. In the modified system, whenever a user tries to access his fingerprinted copy, the fingerprint is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-26 N. Prasanth Anthapadmanabhan , Alexander Barg

Standard OCR is a well-researched topic of computer vision and can be considered solved for machine-printed text. However, when applied to unconstrained images, the recognition rates drop drastically. Therefore, the employment of object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Albert Kavelar , Sebastian Zambanini , Martin Kampel

The trend toward a highly mobile workforce and the ubiquity of graphical interfaces (such as the stylus and touch-screen) has enabled the emergence of graphical authentications in Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) [1]. However, most of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Xiyang Liu , Zhongjie Ren , Xiuling Chang , Haichang Gao , Uwe Aickelin

State-of-the-art neural rendering methods optimize Gaussian scene representations from a few photographs for novel-view synthesis. Building on these representations, we develop an efficient algorithm, dubbed Gaussian Wave Splatting, to turn…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Suyeon Choi , Brian Chao , Jacqueline Yang , Manu Gopakumar , Gordon Wetzstein

Minimizing the Gaussian curvature of meshes can play a fundamental role in 3D mesh processing. However, there is a lack of computationally efficient and robust Gaussian curvature optimization method. In this paper, we present a simple yet…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Wenming Tang , Yuanhao Gong , Kanglin Liu , Jun Liu , Wei Pan , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

We propose GaussCtrl, a text-driven method to edit a 3D scene reconstructed by the 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our method first renders a collection of images by using the 3DGS and edits them by using a pre-trained 2D diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jing Wu , Jia-Wang Bian , Xinghui Li , Guangrun Wang , Ian Reid , Philip Torr , Victor Adrian Prisacariu

Control barrier functions (CBFs) have recently introduced a systematic tool to ensure system safety by establishing set invariance. When combined with a nominal control strategy, they form a safety-critical control mechanism. However, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Mohammad Aali , Jun Liu

Traditional CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) schemes are increasingly vulnerable to automated attacks powered by deep neural networks (DNNs). Existing adversarial attack methods often rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xia Du , Xiaoyuan Liu , Jizhe Zhou , Zheng Lin , Chi-man Pun , Cong Wu , Tao Li , Zhe Chen , Wei Ni , Jun Luo

Digital fingerprinting is a framework for marking media files, such as images, music, or movies, with user-specific signatures to deter illegal distribution. Multiple users can collude to produce a forgery that can potentially overcome a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-16 Dustin G. Mixon , Christopher J. Quinn , Negar Kiyavash , Matthew Fickus

Content based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents of image to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on recent technology used in the area…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-21 D. Johnvictor , G. Selvavinayagam

Visual Cryptography is a secret sharing scheme that uses the human visual system to perform computations. This paper presents a recursive hiding scheme for 3 out of 5 secret sharing. The idea used is to hide smaller secrets in the shares of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-14 Sandeep Katta

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for real-time and high-fidelity 3D reconstruction from posed images. However, recent studies reveal its vulnerability to adversarial corruptions in input views, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yiran Qiao , Yiren Lu , Yunlai Zhou , Rui Yang , Linlin Hou , Yu Yin , Jing Ma

Current OCR systems are based on deep learning models trained on large amounts of data. Although they have shown some ability to generalize to unseen data, especially in detection tasks, they can struggle with recognizing low-quality data.…

Color names based image representation is successfully used in person re-identification, due to the advantages of being compact, intuitively understandable as well as being robust to photometric variance. However, there exists the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Yang Yang , Shengcai Liao , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Making computer-generated (CG) images more difficult to detect is an interesting problem in computer graphics and security. While most approaches focus on the image rendering phase, this paper presents a method based on increasing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Huy H. Nguyen , Ngoc-Dung T. Tieu , Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen