Cristina Romero Macias

Contact Details

Research Group: Multimedia and Vision Research Group

Supervisor: Prof Ebroul Izquierdo

Research Topic: Image understanding for automatic human-machine separation

Research Scope:

The aim of my research is trying to increase the gap of what human users can understand and machines cannot by creating automatic tests to diferenciate them. These tests are called CAPTCHAs, and their main objective is to secure internet applications against threats like spam, malicious softwares, etc.

Research interests:Software computing, Image manipulation, 3D modelling

Participation in projects

Biography

I was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1984. In 2002 I took a BSc in Telecomunications Engineering at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and finished in 2008. During 2008 I also worked as a software developer for IntecDom as well as doing my MSc thesis there. Since October 2008, I am a PhD student at Queen Mary, University of London, working on Image understanding for automatic human and machine separation.

Publications:

Journals

• Romero Macias, C. and Izquierdo, E, " A survey of CAPTCHAs: Are computers getting the better of us?," ACM Computing Surveys.

Conferences

• C. Romero Macias and E. Izquierdo, "Visual Word-Based CAPTCHA using 3D Characters," in 3rd International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, 2009.
• C. Romero Macias and E. Izquierdo, "Image recognition CAPTCHA using distorted faces," in 4th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, 2011.
• K.Vaiapury, A.Aksay, X.Lin, C.Romero Macias and E.Izquierdo, "A New Integrated Framework for Measurement and Analysis in 3D Space; in In 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.