A comprehensive survey on ear recognition: databases, approaches, comparative analysis, and open challenges

A Benzaoui, Y Khaldi, R Bouaouina, N Amrouni… - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Automatic identity recognition from ear images is an active research topic in the biometric
community. The ability to secretly acquire images of the ear remotely and the stability of the …

Ear recognition based on deep unsupervised active learning

Y Khaldi, A Benzaoui, A Ouahabi… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative machine learning has many applications, such as data annotation, where an
initial model trained with partially labeled data is used to predict labels for unseen data …

Review of classical dimensionality reduction and sample selection methods for large-scale data processing

X Xu, T Liang, J Zhu, D Zheng, T Sun - Neurocomputing, 2019 - Elsevier
In the era of big data, all types of data with increasing samples and high-dimensional
attributes are demonstrating their important roles in various fields, such as data mining …

Ear recognition using local binary patterns: A comparative experimental study

M Hassaballah, HA Alshazly, AA Ali - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Identity recognition using local features extracted from ear images has recently attracted a
great deal of attention in the intelligent biometric systems community. The rich and reliable …

A face recognition taxonomy and review framework towards dimensionality, modality and feature quality

I Pattnaik, A Dev, AK Mohapatra - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive review of Automatic Facial Recognition Systems
using integrative and systematic mapping approach. The review is grounded on criteria …

[HTML][HTML] Handcrafted versus CNN features for ear recognition

H Alshazly, C Linse, E Barth, T Martinetz - Symmetry, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ear recognition is an active research area in the biometrics community with the ultimate goal
to recognize individuals effectively from ear images. Traditional ear recognition methods …

Genetic algorithm based local and global spectral features extraction for ear recognition

S Sajadi, A Fathi - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
Identification systems based on biometric features are becoming increasingly important. One
of the most common biometric features is the ear. The accuracy of these systems is heavily …

TR-ICANet: A fast unsupervised deep-learning-based scheme for unconstrained ear recognition

A Korichi, S Slatnia, O Aiadi - Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Recently, several deep learning schemes have been considered for recognizing ear print.
However, deep-based schemes are known to be data-hungry and they may require a …

Review of ear biometrics

Z Wang, J Yang, Y Zhu - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2021 - Springer
As one of the most important biometrics, ear biometrics is getting more and more attention.
Ear recognition has unique advantages and can make identification more secure and …

A novel approach for ear recognition: learning Mahalanobis distance features from deep CNNs

I Omara, A Hagag, G Ma, FE Abd El-Samie… - Machine Vision and …, 2021 - Springer
Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used for ear recognition
with the increasing and available ear image databases. However, most known ear …