IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Biometric Recognition Using 3D Ear Shape
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Human Ear Recognition by Computer (Advances in Pattern Recognition)
Human Ear Recognition by Computer (Advances in Pattern Recognition)
Fast and Fully Automatic Ear Detection Using Cascaded AdaBoost
WACV '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision
Force field feature extraction for ear biometrics
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
On shape-mediated enrolment in ear biometrics
ISVC'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part II
An efficient ear localization technique
Image and Vision Computing
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One of the most recent trends in biometrics is recognition by ear appearance in head profile images. Determining the region of interest which contains the ear is an important step in an ear biometric system. To this end, we propose a robust, simple and effective method for ear detection from profile images by employing a bank of curved and stretched Gabor wavelets, known as banana wavelets. A 100% detection rate is achieved here on a group of 252 profile images from XM2VTS database. The banana wavelets technique demonstrates better performances than Gabor wavelets technique. This indicates that the curved wavelets are advantageous here. Also the banana wavelet technique is applied to a new and more challenging database which highlights practical considerations of a more realistic deployment. This ear detection technique is fully automated, has encouraging performance and appears to be robust to degradation by noise.