Multimodal recognition based on face and ear

Author

Yuan, Li ; Mu, Zhi-Chun ; Xu, Xiao-na

Author_Institution

Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Beijing, Beijing

Volume

3

fYear

2007

fDate

2-4 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1203

Lastpage

1207

Abstract

Research of ear recognition and its application is a new subject in the field of biometrics authentication. As the ear is located at the side face, it is reasonable to combine ear with face for multimodal recognition. In this paper, a Full-space Linear Discriminant Analysis (FSLDA) is applied for recognition with ear images, face images and the combined ear and face images. Experiments are performed on USTB ear image database and ORL face database. Recognition rates show that multimodal recognition using both ear and face results in improvement over either face biometric or ear biometric.

Keywords

biometrics (access control); ear; face recognition; statistical analysis; ORL face database; USTB ear image database; biometrics authentication; ear recognition; face recognition; full-space linear discriminant analysis; multimodal recognition; Authentication; Biometrics; Ear; Face recognition; Feature extraction; Image databases; Image recognition; Linear discriminant analysis; Pattern recognition; Shape; Ear recognition; Face recognition; Full-space Linear Discriminant Analysis; Multimodal Recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition, 2007. ICWAPR '07. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1065-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1066-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWAPR.2007.4421616

Filename

4421616