A new segmentation approach for ear recognition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5259 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 1030-1037

  Attarchi, Sepehr ^a   Faez, Karim ^a   Rafiei, Aref ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Canny edge detector; Ear segmentation; Outer boundary detection

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

BARYCENTER OF THE TRIANGLE; CANNY EDGE DETECTORS; EAR RECOGNITION; EAR SEGMENTATION; OUTER BOUNDARY DETECTION; PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION; REFERENCE POINTS; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 57049130415     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88458-3_93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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