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Ear Shape for Biometric Identification

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Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security

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Human ear biometrics; Human ear identification; Human ear recognition; Human ear verification

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Ear Detection; Ear Shape and Its Uniqueness

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Ear shape has played a significant role in forensic science and its use by law enforcement agencies for many years. After decades of research of anthropometric measurements of ear photographs of thousands of people, it has been found that no two ears are alike, even in the cases of identical and fraternal twins, triplets, and quadruplets. It is also found that the structure of the ear does not change radically over time. However, until recently most of this work has been on analyzing the ear photographs manually. Recent work on ear biometrics focuses on developing automated techniques for ear recognition. Typically, an ear biometrics system consists of ear detection and ear recognition (authentication and identification) modules. Ear recognition can be based on a 2D gray scale or color image, 3D range image or a...

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  1. Center for Research in Intelligent Systems, University of California, Engineering Unit II, EBU2, Room 216, 92521-0425, Riverside, CA, USA

    Bir Bhanu Professor

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Henk C. A. van Tilborg

  2. Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4422, USA

    Sushil Jajodia

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Bhanu, B. (2011). Ear Shape for Biometric Identification. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_738

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