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Skin print
Definition
Generally, skin texture is the surface texture pattern of any part of the human body with bare skin (e.g., face, hand, and palm). In the context of biometrics, this term commonly refers to the technologies and methods of face recognition using highly detailed facial skin texture in high-resolution images.
Introduction
Since the success of local features in face recognition in the late 1990s, researchers have been seeking for more detailed representations of human faces. Skin texture contains plentiful detailed local information and therefore starts to attract research attention [1]. A person’s skin texture pattern is, to some extent, a unique physical trait and is distinguishable from those of others and thus can be used for biometric identification.
The primary difference between conventional face recognition methods and skin texture methods is the resolution of facial images used. Typically, in conventional face recognition methods, the faces are scaled...
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Zhu, X., Lei, Z., Li, S.Z. (2015). Skin Texture. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_99
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