Ear detection in 3D profile images based on surface curvature

Proceedings of the 2012 8th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-6

  Pflug, Anika ^a   Winterstein, Adrian ^a   Busch, Christoph ^a,b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Ear Detection; Pattern Recognition

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; 3D PROFILE; DETECTION APPROACH; DETECTION RATES; EAR RECOGNITION; EDGE-BASED DETECTIONS; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SURFACE CURVATURES;

BIOMETRICS; DETECTORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84867151148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IIH-MSP.2012.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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