Ear biometrics
Posted on July 16, 2005
Apparently ears are a lot more invariant to changes that a lot of other biometric options available. Research is undergoing at the University of Southampton into using the shape of a persons ears to identify them.
Ears are remarkably consistent, he says. Unlike faces, they do not change shape with different expressions or age, and remain fixed in the middle of the side of the head against a predictable background. “Hair is a problem,” Nixon admits. “But that might be solved by using infrared images.”
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