Ear segmentation in color facial images using mathematical morphology

2008 Biometrics Symposium, BSYM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-34

  Said, Eyad Haj ^a   Abaza, Ayman ^b   Ammar, Hany ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED EVALUATIONS; AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; BAYESIAN CLASSIFIERS; EAR BIOMETRICS; FACIAL IMAGES; SEGMENTATION APPROACHES; SEGMENTED IMAGES;

AUTOMATION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 56749160000     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BSYM.2008.4655519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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