Automated human identification using ear imaging

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 956-968

  Kumar, Ajay ^a   Wu, Chenye ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Ear identification; Ear segmentation; Personal identification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; EAR IDENTIFICATION; EAR SEGMENTATION; FALSE NEGATIVES; FALSE POSITIVE; FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; GABOR FILTER; GRAY-LEVEL; HUMAN IDENTIFICATION; LOG-GABOR FILTER; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; ORIENTATION INFORMATION; PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION; PHASE INFORMATION; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; REGION OF INTEREST; ROBUST SEGMENTATION;

AUTOMATION; BIOMETRICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INVESTMENTS;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 80054990169     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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