Beating CAPTCHAs with Neural Networks

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Better (worse?) CAPTCHAs

URL: http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/applications/plot_geometric.html

Larger exercise!

The CAPTCHAs we beat in this example were not as complex as those normally used today. You can create more complex variants using a number of techniques as follows:

• Applying different transformations such as the ones in scikit-image (see the preceding link)
• Using different colors and colors that don't translate well to grayscale
• Adding lines or other shapes to the image: http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/api/skimage.draw.html

Deeper networks

These techniques will probably fool our current implementation, so improvements will need to be made to make the method better. Try some of the deeper networks we used. Larger networks need more data, though, so you will probably need to generate more than the few thousand samples we did here in order to get good performance. Generating these datasets...