Google breaks CAPTCHA

Mr Reese

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/16/googles-new-street-view-image-recognition-algorithm-can-beat-most-captchas/

""""Here is an interesting conundrum for Google: it has created an algorithm that’s significantly better at reading street numbers in Street View images, which helps it give you more accurate directions. At the same time, though, it turns out that this algorithm is so good, it can decipher 99 percent of CAPTCHAs (those squiggly text puzzles you often have to solve to prove you are human).

Google’s new algorithm for detecting street numbers can accurately detect and read difficult numbers in Street View 90 percent of the time, Google disclosed today. According to a joint paper by Google’s Street View and reCAPTCHA teams (PDF), recognizing this kind of data in natural photographs is a pretty hard problem. Just think of all the variations in lighting and issues with motion and focus blur. At the same time, it’s also essential for Google’s mapping efforts to get this data from these images.""""

Steviemoyne

Hopefully some webtext android app builds this functionality into the app so vodafone can stick their captcha and constant changes right up their...

cruizer101

Fair play to google, I feckin hate hate CAPTCHA, at 90% success rate I'd say its doing better than I manage :pac:

Mr Reese

And now a Face Recognition Algorithm thats better than Humans.

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