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He might've tried to write a computer vision solution to solve TicketMaster captchas. In order to test your solution, you need a bank of images to test from. S
by striking 10y ago
He might've tried to write a computer vision solution to solve TicketMaster captchas.
In order to test your solution, you need a bank of images to test from. So you download the first, say, 50k. And realize that you're getting a whole lot of repeats.
30k is still really annoying to get around without computer vision. But OpenCV is really, really fun and easy to use.
- acchow 10y agoIt's a CV arms race - the CAPTCHAs are meant to stay ahead of state-of-the-art CV tech. That's the entire premise behind reCAPTCHA - if you've solved it, then we've sold useful real-world problems and can move onto the next ones.
- dsp1234 10y agoThat's the entire premise behind reCAPTCHA - if you've solved it, then we've sold useful real-world problems and can move onto the next ones. The original premise of reCAPTCHA was to help crowdsource the digitization of books by providing spam bot prevention. It's slogan was "Stop Spam, Read Books." up until 2014.
- acchow 10y agoExactly. I had a typo where I meant "solved" but put "sold". reCAPTCHA directed the efforts in the spambots arms race towards a real-world problem - reading old books.