An efficient 3-D ear recognition system employing local and holistic features

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 978-991

  Zhou, Jindan ^a   Cadavid, Steven ^a   Abdel Mottaleb, Mohamed ^a  

^a University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D ear recognition; 3 D ear segmentation; Ear biometrics; Range image; Shape index; Surface matching; Voxelization

Indexed keywords

EAR BIOMETRICS; EAR RECOGNITION; EAR SEGMENTATION; RANGE IMAGES; SHAPE INDICES; SURFACE MATCHING; VOXELIZATION;

BIOMETRICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84861176258     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2012.2189005     Document Type: Article

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