Efficient detection and recognition of 3D ears

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-73

  Islam, Syed M S ^a   Davies, Rowan ^a   Bennamoun, Mohammed ^a   Mian, Ajmal S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D ear recognition; 3D local features; Biometrics; Ear detection; Geometric consistency

Indexed keywords

3D EAR RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; BIOMETRIC TRAITS; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; DATA POINTS; DETECTION RATES; EAR DETECTION; EFFICIENT DETECTION; EXTRACTING FEATURES; GEOMETRIC CONSISTENCY; ICP ALGORITHMS; IDENTIFICATION RATES; ITERATIVE CLOSEST POINT ALGORITHM; LOCAL FEATURE; RANGE IMAGES; RECENT TRENDS;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRICS; DETECTORS; IMAGE MATCHING; METADATA;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79960260019     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-011-0436-0     Document Type: Article

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