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Ear recognition using a novel feature extraction approach

International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI) • 2016
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Authors Ibrahim Omara, Feng Li, Ahmed Hagag, Souleyman Chaib, Wangmeng Zuo
Keywords Not Available
Journal International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI)
Publisher International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI)
Volume 13
Issue 6
Pages 46
publication.type International
Paper Link Open Link
Supplementary Materials Not Available
Abstract
Most of traditional ear recognition methods that based on local features always need accurate images alignment, which may severely affect the performance. In this paper, we investigate a novel approach for ear recognition based on Polar Sine Transform (PST); PST is free of images alignment. First, we divide the ear images into overlapping blocks. After that, we compute PST coefficients that are employed to extract invariant features for each block. Second, we accumulate these features for only one feature vector to represent ear image. Third, we use Support Vector Machine (SVM) for ear recognition. To validate the proposed approach, experiments are performed on USTB database and results show that our approach is superior to previous works.