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Biometrics identification methods have proved to be very efficient, more natural and easy for users than traditional methods of human identification. Biometrics methods truly identify humans, not keys and cards they posses or passwords they should remember. The future of biometrics leads 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 subject 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 has many advantages over methods based on human behavior. The most interesting human anatomical parts for passive, physiological biometrics systems are face and ear.
There are many advantages of using the ear as a source of data for...
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Choraś, M. (2009). Ear Biometrics. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_173
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