TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 10, No 2: June 2012

Personal Identification Using Ear Recognition

Anam Tariq (National University of Sciences and Technology)
M. Usman Akram (National University of Sciences and Technology)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2012

Abstract

 Biometric authentication for personal identification is very popular now a days. Human ear recognition system is a new technology in this field. The change of appearance with the expression was a major problem in face biometrics but in case of ear biometrics the shape and appearance is fixed. That is why it is advantageous to use it for personal identification. In this paper, we have proposed a new approach for an automated system for human ear identification. Our proposed method consists of three stages. In the first stage, preprocessing of ear image is done for its contrast enhancement and size normalization. In the second stage, features are extracted through Haar wavelets followed by ear identification using fast normalized cross correlation in the third stage. The proposed method is applied on USTB ear image database and IIT Delhi. Experimental results show that our proposed system achieves an average accuracy of 97.2% and 95.2% on these databases respectively.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

TELKOMNIKA

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

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