Title | Image Spam Filtering by Content Obscuring Detection |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Biggio, B, Fumera, G, Pillai, I, Roli, F |
Conference Name | Fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2007) |
Date Published | 02/08/2007 |
Conference Location | Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Mountain View, California |
Keywords | doc00, doc02, spam filtering |
Abstract | We address the problem of filtering image spam,a rapidly spreading kind of spam in which the text messageis embedded into attached images to defeat spam filtering techniquesbased on the analysis of e-mail's body text.We propose an approach based on low-level image processingtechniques to detect one of the main charactersticsof most image spam, namely the use of content obscuring techniquesto defeat OCR tools.A preliminary experimental evaluation of our approach is reportedon a personal data set of spam images publicly available.
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Citation Key | 139 |