Image processing methods in person identification applications - ear biometrics

• Autorzy: Choraś M.

Warianty tytułu

PL

Przetwarzanie obrazów w identyfikacji osób - biometria ucha

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The future of biometrics will surely lead to systems based on image analysis as the data acquisition is very simple and requires only cameras, scanners or sensors. More importantly such methods could be passive, which means that the user does not have to take active part in the whole process or, in fact, would not even know that the process of identification takes place. There are many possible data sources for human identification systems, but the physiological biometrics seem to have many advantages over methods based on human behaviour. The most interesting human anatomical parts for such passive, physiological biometrics systems based on images acquired from cameras are face and ear. Both of those methods contain large volume of unique features that allow to distinctively identify many users and will be surely implemented into efficient biometrics systems for many applications. The article presents ear biometrics and a novel geometrical method of feature extraction from ear images in order to perform human identification.

PL

W ostatnich latach odchodzi się od tradycyjnych sposobów identyfikacji osób, a uznanie zyskują metody biometryczne oparte na przetwarzaniu obrazów. W artykule zaprezentowano metodę identyfikacji osób na podstawie cech ucha i przedstawiono algorytmy wydzielania cech z obrazów ucha. Uzyskane wyniki są porównywalne z wynikami identyfikacji innymi metodami biometrycznymi.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

person identification; biometrics; ear; passive biometrics; image processing

PL

identyfikacja osób; biometria; ucho; przetwarzanie obrazu

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT
• Czasopismo: Przegląd Elektrotechniczny
• Rocznik: 2005
• Tom: R. 81, nr 4
• Strony: 38--41
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 9 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Choraś M.

• Instytut Telekomunikacji, Akademia Techniczno-Rolnicza w Bydgoszczy

Bibliografia

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