An ear biometric system based on artificial bees and the scale invariant feature transform

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Highlights：

• An ear biometric system based on artificial bees for ear image contrast enhancement is proposed.

• In the feature extraction stage, the scale invariant feature transform is used.

• The proposed approach was tested on three databases of ear biometrics: IIT Delhi, USTB 1 and USTB 2.

• The obtained results proved the superiority of the proposed in two out of three test databases.

摘要

•An ear biometric system based on artificial bees for ear image contrast enhancement is proposed.•In the feature extraction stage, the scale invariant feature transform is used.•The proposed approach was tested on three databases of ear biometrics: IIT Delhi, USTB 1 and USTB 2.•The obtained results proved the superiority of the proposed in two out of three test databases.

论文关键词：Ear biometrics,Contrast enhancement,Artificial bee colony,Scale invariant feature transform

论文评审过程：Received 11 January 2015, Revised 12 February 2016, Accepted 3 March 2016, Available online 22 March 2016, Version of Record 5 April 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.03.004