Ear Biometrics Based on Geometrical Feature Extraction

Biometrics identification methods proved to be very efficient, more natural and easy for users than traditional methods of human identification. In fact, only biometrics methods truly identify humans, not keys and cards they posses or passwords they should remember. The future of biometrics will sur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Choraś, Micha
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:24400
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/24400
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/elcvia.108
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Biometrics
Human Identification
Computer Vision
Image Analysis
Pattern Recognition
Biomètrica
Identificació humana
Visió per computadora
Anàlisi d'imatges
Reconeixement de model
Biométrica
Identificación humana
Visión por computadora
Análisis de imágenes
Reconocimiento de modelo
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Sumario:Biometrics identification methods proved to be very efficient, more natural and easy for users than traditional methods of human identification. In fact, only biometrics methods truly identify humans, not keys and cards they posses or passwords they should remember. The future of biometrics will surely lead to systems based on image analysis as the data acquisition is very simple and requires only cameras, scanners or sensors. More importantly such methods could be passive, which means that the user does not have to take active part in the whole process or, in fact, would not even know that the process of identification takes place. There are many possible data sources for human identification systems, but the physiological biometrics seem to have many advantages over methods based on human behaviour. The most interesting human anatomical parts for such passive, physiological biometrics systems based on images acquired from cameras are face and ear. Both of those methods contain large volume of unique features that allow to distinctively identify many users and will be surely implemented into efficient biometrics systems for many applications. The article introduces to ear biometrics and presents its advantages over face biometrics in passive human identification systems. Then the geometrical method of feature extraction from human ear images in order to perform human identification is presented.