Biometric recognition using 3D ear shape

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1297-1308

  Yan, Ping ^a   Bowyer, Kevin W ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

3D shape; Active contour; Biometrics; Curvature estimation; Ear biometrics; Iterative closest point; Skin detection

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR; CURVATURE ESTIMATION; EAR BIOMETRICS; SKIN DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); IMAGE RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

BIOMETRICS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 34447253573     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1067     Document Type: Article

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