Research into ear biometrics by researchers
of ECS-Electronics and Computer Science has raised new potential for security
systems. The research is currently profiled on the leading website, All
Analytics, where they are explaining the potential uses of his pioneering work
into ear identification. They believe that using photos of individual ears
matched against a comparative database could be as distinctive a form of
identification as fingerprints.
Using ears for identification has
clear advantages over other kinds of biometric identification, as, once
developed, the ear changes little throughout a person’s life. During
walk-throughs at security checkpoints cameras could digitally photograph
passers-by comparing their ears against others in a database. Used in
combination with face recognition, ear recognition offers a second point of
comparison in cases where all or part of a face might be obstructed, for
example, by make-up.
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