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Ear Contour Detection And Modeling Using Statistical Shape Models, Satish Ravindran
Ear Contour Detection And Modeling Using Statistical Shape Models, Satish Ravindran
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Ear detection is an actively growing area of research because of its applications in human head tracking and biometric recognition. In head tracking, it is used to augment face detectors and to perform pose estimation. In biometric systems, it is used both as an independent modality and in multi-modal biometric recognition. The ear shape is the preferred feature used to perform detection because of its unique structure in both 2D color images and 3D range images. Ear shape models have also been used in literature to perform ear detection, but at a cost of a loss in information about the …