An investigation of matching symmetry in the human pinnae with possible implications for 3D ear recognition and sound localization

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 60-72

  Claes, Peter ^a   Reijniers, Jonas ^b   Shriver, Mark D ^c   Snyders, Jonatan ^a   Suetens, Paul ^a   Nielandt, Joachim ^d   De Tré, Guy ^d   Vandermeulen, Dirk ^a  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ear recognition; Geometric morphometrics; Matching symmetry; Sound localization; Spatially dense

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORTI ORGAN; EAR LOBE; EXTERNAL EAR; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

TRAGUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION; EAR AURICLE; HUMANS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84919459713     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12252     Document Type: Article

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