Connected component based technique for automatic ear detection

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2741-2744

  Prakash, Surya ^a   Jayaraman, Umarani ^a   Gupta, Phalguni ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Connected graph; Ear detection; Skin segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

CONNECTED COMPONENT; CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; CONNECTED GRAPH; DATA SETS; EAR DETECTION; EDGE MAP; FACE IMAGES; INPUT IMAGE; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; STRUCTURAL DETAILS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77951954867     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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