Microsoft TechFest shows future
PC World | at | by Mike
What do cats and Internet security have in common? If you had attended Microsoft's TechFest 2007 on Tuesday here, you would know.
Image Recognition At the event, which gave Microsoft Research a chance to demonstrate technologies that may one day turn up in Microsoft or third-party products, the research group showed off Asirra, a technology that uses the identification of photos of cats to ensure that humans, not interactive scripts, are accessing certain Web sites.
The problem with human interactive proof technologies used today is that they often ask Web users to identify characters, not images, said Jeremy Elson, who works in the Redmond lab of Microsoft Research.