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Object detection and segmentation represents the basis for many tasks in computer and machine vision. In biometric recognition systems the detection of the region-of-interest (ROI) is one of the most crucial steps in the overall processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Žiga Emeršič , Luka Lan Gabriel , Vitomir Štruc , Peter Peer

Earphones can give access to sensitive information via voice assistants which demands security methods that prevent unauthorized use. Therefore, we developed EarCapAuth, an authentication mechanism using 48 capacitive electrodes embedded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Richard Hanser , Tobias Röddiger , Till Riedel , Michael Beigl

Ear acoustic authentication is a new biometrics method and it utilizes the differences in acoustic characteristics of the ear canal between users. However, there have been few reports on the factors that cause differences in the acoustic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Riki Kimura , Shunsuke Tanaka , Naoki Wakui , Naoki Kodama , Shohei Yano

Ear recognition has gained attention as a reliable biometric technique due to the distinctive characteristics of human ears. With the increasing availability of large-scale datasets, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Kagan Ozturk , Deeksha Arun , Kevin W. Bowyer , Patrick Flynn

Biometrics involves using unique human traits, both physical and behavioral, for the digital identification of individuals to provide access to systems, devices, or information. Within the field of computer science, it acts as a method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Sajjad Bhuiyan

Ear recognition task is known as predicting whether two ear images belong to the same person or not. In this paper, we present a novel metric learning method for ear recognition. This method is formulated as a pairwise constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ibrahim Omara , Hongzhi Zhang , Faqiang Wang , Wangmeng Zuo

With the development of technology, the usage areas and importance of biometric systems have started to increase. Since the characteristics of each person are different from each other, a single model biometric system can yield successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Cihan Akin , Umit Kacar , Murvet Kirci

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis on extracting soft biometric traits, age and gender, from ear images. Although there have been a few previous work on gender classification using ear images, to the best of our knowledge, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Dogucan Yaman , Fevziye Irem Eyiokur , Nurdan Sezgin , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

We present a practical approach to capturing ear-to-ear face models comprising both 3D meshes and intrinsic textures (i.e. diffuse and specular albedo). Our approach is a hybrid of geometric and photometric methods and requires no geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Alassane Seck , William A. P. Smith , Arnaud Dessein , Bernard Tiddeman , Hannah Dee , Abhishek Dutta

Periocular refers to the facial region in the vicinity of the eye, including eyelids, lashes and eyebrows. While face and irises have been extensively studied, the periocular region has emerged as a promising trait for unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Josef Bigun

The performance of face recognition systems can be negatively impacted in the presence of masks and other types of facial coverings that have become prevalent due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In such cases, the periocular region of the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Renu Sharma , Arun Ross

This paper presents a summary of the 2019 Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (UERC), the second in a series of group benchmarking efforts centered around the problem of person recognition from ear images captured in uncontrolled…

Human gender classification based on biometric features is a major concern for computer vision due to its vast variety of applications. The human ear is popular among researchers as a soft biometric trait, because it is less affected by age…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ritwiz Singh , Keshav Kashyap , Rajesh Mukherjee , Asish Bera , Mamata Dalui Chakraborty

BIOMETRICS are an important and widely used class of methods for identity verification and access control. Biometrics are attractive because they are inherent properties of an individual. They need not be remembered like passwords, and are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Shantanu Rane , Ye Wang , Stark. C. Draper , Prakash Ishwar

The need for reliably determining the identity of a person is critical in a number of different domains ranging from personal smartphones to border security; from autonomous vehicles to e-voting; from tracking child vaccinations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Arun Ross , Sudipta Banerjee , Cunjian Chen , Anurag Chowdhury , Vahid Mirjalili , Renu Sharma , Thomas Swearingen , Shivangi Yadav

As the technology is advancing, audio recognition in machine learning is improved as well. Research in audio recognition has traditionally focused on speech. Living creatures (especially the small ones) are part of the whole ecosystem,…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Siddhardha Balemarthy , Atul Sajjanhar , James Xi Zheng

Recent years has witnessed an increase in technologies that use speech for the sensing of the health of the talker. This survey paper proposes a general taxonomy of the technologies and a broad overview of current progress and challenges.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-12 Aki Härmä , Bert den Brinker , Ulf Grossekathofer , Okke Ouweltjes , Srikanth Nallanthighal , Sidharth Abrol , Vibhu Sharma

Earable devices, wearables positioned in or around the ear, are undergoing a rapid transformation from audio-centric accessories into multifunctional systems for interaction, contextual awareness, and health monitoring. This evolution is…

The ear, as an important part of the human head, has received much less attention compared to the human face in the area of computer vision. Inspired by previous work on monocular 3D face reconstruction using an autoencoder structure to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Hao Sun , Nick Pears , Hang Dai

Iris recognition is a secure biometric technology known for its stability and privacy. With no two irises being identical and little change throughout a person's lifetime, iris recognition is considered more reliable and less susceptible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Yimin Yin , Siliang He , Renye Zhang , Hongli Chang , Xu Han , Jinghua Zhang