Wonder Ears: Identification of Identical Twins from Ear Images

Hossein Nejati; Li Zhang; Terence Sim; Elisa Martinez Marroquin; Guo Dong Zhou

Wonder Ears: Identification of Identical Twins from Ear Images

Hossein Nejati, Li Zhang, Terence Sim, Elisa Martinez Marroquin, Guo Dong Zhou

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Abstract

While identical twins identification is a well known challenge in face recognition, it seems that no work has explored automatic ear recognition for identical twin identification. Ear image recognition has been studied for years, but Iannarelli (1989) appears to be the only work mentioning the twin identification (performed manually). We here explore the possibility of automatic twin identification from their ear images based on a psychological model for face recognition in humans, known as Exception Report Model (ERM). We test our approach on 39 pairs of identical twins (78 subjects), with several levels of resolution, occlusion, noise, left vs. right ear, and feature optimization which verifies the robustness of the introduced features.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Conference on Parttern Recognition (ICPR)
Editors	Jan-olof eklundh, Yuichi Ohta, Steven Tanimoto
Place of Publication	Japan
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	1201-1204
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9784990644109
ISBN (Print)	9781467322164
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2012
Event	21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012) - Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Duration: 11 Nov 2012 → 15 Nov 2012

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Conference	21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012)
Abbreviated title	ICPR 2012
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tsukuba
Period	11/11/12 → 15/11/12

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Nejati, H, Zhang, L, Sim, T, Martinez Marroquin, E & Zhou, GD 2012, Wonder Ears: Identification of Identical Twins from Ear Images. in J eklundh, Y Ohta & S Tanimoto (eds), International Conference on Parttern Recognition (ICPR). IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Japan, pp. 1201-1204, 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), Tsukuba, Japan, 11/11/12. <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6460353>

Wonder Ears: Identification of Identical Twins from Ear Images. / Nejati, Hossein; Zhang, Li; Sim, Terence et al.
International Conference on Parttern Recognition (ICPR). ed. / Jan-olof eklundh; Yuichi Ohta; Steven Tanimoto. Japan: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012. p. 1201-1204.

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