Ear recognition: More than a survey

Ž Emeršič, V Štruc, P Peer - Neurocomputing, 2017 - Elsevier
Automatic identity recognition from ear images represents an active field of research within
the biometric community. The ability to capture ear images from a distance and in a covert …

A survey of 3d ear recognition techniques

II Ganapathi, SS Ali, S Prakash, NS Vu… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Human recognition with biometrics is a rapidly emerging area of computer vision. Compared
to other well-known biometric features such as the face, fingerprint, iris, and palmprint, the …

Ear recognition using local binary patterns: A comparative experimental study

M Hassaballah, HA Alshazly, AA Ali - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Identity recognition using local features extracted from ear images has recently attracted a
great deal of attention in the intelligent biometric systems community. The rich and reliable …

Deep convolutional neural networks for unconstrained ear recognition

H Alshazly, C Linse, E Barth, T Martinetz - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper employs state-of-the-art Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), namely
AlexNet, VGGNet, Inception, ResNet and ResNeXt in a first experimental study of ear …

A comprehensive survey on ear recognition: databases, approaches, comparative analysis, and open challenges

A Benzaoui, Y Khaldi, R Bouaouina, N Amrouni… - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Automatic identity recognition from ear images is an active research topic in the biometric
community. The ability to secretly acquire images of the ear remotely and the stability of the …

Towards explainable ear recognition systems using deep residual networks

H Alshazly, C Linse, E Barth, SA Idris… - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents ear recognition models constructed with Deep Residual Networks
(ResNet) of various depths. Due to relatively limited amounts of ear images we propose …

Handcrafted versus CNN features for ear recognition

H Alshazly, C Linse, E Barth, T Martinetz - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ear recognition is an active research area in the biometrics community with the ultimate goal
to recognize individuals effectively from ear images. Traditional ear recognition methods …

Performance analysis of NASNet on unconstrained ear recognition

K Radhika, K Devika, T Aswathi, P Sreevidya… - … inspired computing for …, 2020 - Springer
Recent times are witnessing greater influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on identification of
subjects based on biometrics. Traditional biometric recognition algorithms, which were …

Robust local oriented patterns for ear recognition

M Hassaballah, HA Alshazly, AA Ali - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020 - Springer
Extraction and description of image features is an active research topic and important for
several applications of computer vision field. This paper presents a new noise-tolerant and …

A novel geometric feature extraction method for ear recognition

I Omara, F Li, H Zhang, W Zuo - Expert Systems with Applications, 2016 - Elsevier
The discriminative ability of geometric features can be well supported by empirical studies in
ear recognition. Recently, a number of methods have been suggested for geometric feature …