Robust ear identification using sparse representation of local texture descriptors

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-85

  Kumar, Ajay ^a   Chan, Tak Shing T ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Ear recognition; Personal identification

Indexed keywords

EAR DATABASE; EAR RECOGNITION; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; GRAY-LEVEL; LOCAL CURVATURE; LOCAL TEXTURE; LOG-GABOR FILTER; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION; RADON TRANSFORM; REGULARIZED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SHAPE REPRESENTATION; SPARSE CODING; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; VERIFICATION PROBLEMS;

BIOMETRICS; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 84866043528     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2012.06.020     Document Type: Article

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