Improved ear verification after surgery - An approach based on collaborative representation of locally competitive features

• Published in: Pattern recognition Vol. 83; pp. 416 - 429
• Main Authors: Raghavendra, R., Raja, Kiran B., Venkatesh, Sushma, Busch, Christoph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Collaborative representation; Ear recognition; Locally competitive algorithm; Surgery; Collaborative representation; Locally competitive algorithm; Surgery; Ear recognition

•Presents a comprehensive study for biometric verification performance of ears before and after surgery.•Extensive study on different type of ear-surgery is presented along with a new public ear database.•Presents a new feature extraction technique based on Topographic Locally Competitive Algorithm....