Multi-modal ear and face modeling and recognition
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
A review of recent advances in ear recognition
CCBR'11 Proceedings of the 6th Chinese conference on Biometric recognition
Ear recognition based on local information fusion
Pattern Recognition Letters
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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We describe a novel approach for 3-D ear biometrics using video. A series of frames is extracted from a video clip and the region of interest in each frame is independently reconstructed in 3-D using shape from shading. The resulting 3-D models are then registered using the iterative closest point algorithm. We iteratively consider each model in the series as a reference model and calculate the similarity between the reference model and every model in the series using a similarity cost function. Cross validation is performed to assess the relative fidelity of each 3-D model. The model that demonstrates the greatest overall similarity is determined to be the most stable 3-D model and is subsequently enrolled in the database. Experiments are conducted using a gallery set of 402 video clips and a probe of 60 video clips. The results (95.0% rank-1 recognition rate and 3.3% equal error rate) indicate that the proposed approach can produce recognition rates comparable to systems that use 3-D range data. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to develop a 3-D ear biometric system that obtains a 3-D ear structure from a video sequence.