Automatic ear detection and feature extraction using Geometric Morphometrics and convolutional neural networks

IET Biometrics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 211-223

  Cintas, Celia ^a   Quinto Sánchez, Mirsha ^b   Acuña, Victor ^c   Paschetta, Carolina ^a   De Azevedo, Soledad ^a   De Cerqueira, Caio Cesar Silva ^d   Ramallo, Virginia ^a   Gallo, Carla ^e   Poletti, Giovanni ^e   Bortolini, Maria Catira ^f   Canizales Quinteros, Samuel ^g   Rothhammer, Francisco ^h   Bedoya, Gabriel ⁱ   Ruiz Linares, Andres ^j,k   Gonzalez José, Rolando ^a   Delrieux, Claudio ^l  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Instituto de Criminalística Superintendência da Polícia Técnico Científica   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^h UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^j FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^l UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; AUTOMATION; BIOMETRICS; CONVOLUTION; EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS; NON-INTRUSIVE METHOD; SUBJECT MATTERS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 85018510234     PISSN: 20474938     EISSN: 20474946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-bmt.2016.0002     Document Type: Article

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