Unified 3D face and ear recognition using wavelets on geometry images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 796-804

  Theoharis, Theoharis ^a,b   Passalis, Georgios ^a,b   Toderici, George ^b   Kakadiaris, Ioannis A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformable models; Ear recognition; Face recognition; Geometry images; Multimodal biometrics; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DEFORMABLE MODELS; EAR RECOGNITION; GEOMETRY IMAGES; MULTIMODAL BIOMETRICS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 35448940934     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.06.024     Document Type: Article

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