Ear biometrics: a survey of detection, feature extraction and recognition methods
Author(s) -
Anika Pflug,
Christoph Busch
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
iet biometrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2047-4946
pISSN - 2047-4938
DOI - 10.1049/iet-bmt.2011.0003
Subject(s) - biometrics , computer science , context (archaeology) , officer , feature extraction , speech recognition , field (mathematics) , feature (linguistics) , artificial intelligence , pattern recognition (psychology) , data science , law , biology , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , political science , pure mathematics
The possibility of identifying people by the shape of their outer ear was first discovered by the French criminologist Bertillon, and refined by the American police officer Iannarelli, who proposed a first ear recognition system based on only seven features. The detailed structure of the ear is not only unique, but also permanent, as the appearance of the ear does not change over the course of a h...
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