Human ear recognition in 3D

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 718-737

  Chen, Hui ^a   Bhanu, Bir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D ear biometrics; 3D ear identification; 3D ear verification; Range and color images; Surface matching

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PATTERN MATCHING; VERIFICATION;

HUMAN EAR RECOGNITION; ITERATIVE CLOSEST POINT; LOCAL SURFACE PATCH;

BIOMETRICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33947506996     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1005     Document Type: Article

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