Toward unconstrained ear recognition from two-dimensional images

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 486-494

  Bustard, John D ^a   Nixon, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Computer vision; Ear recognition

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CLUTTER; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; DATA SETS; DISTANCE ALGORITHM; EAR RECOGNITION; FEATURE MATCH; HOMOGRAPHIES; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; PLANAR SURFACE; RECOGNITION RATES; SCALE-INVARIANT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; VIEWING ANGLE;

BIOMETRICS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER VISION;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77951207883     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2041652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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