On ear-based human identification in the mid-wave infrared spectrum ?
Collected thermal profile face database (using a middle-wave infrared 3-5 microns camera). Developed a fully automated thermal ear recognition system for real-time human identification (works in day or night). Local Ternary Pattern yields (Rank-1=80.68% and 68.18%) using manually and automatically segmented ears respectively. Score-Level fusion of the Local Ternary Pattern (LTP) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) enhanced the performance by~5%.
thermal infrared imaging thermal ear features score level fusion and multi-biometrics