Review Article

Ear Biometrics Using Deep Learning: A Survey

Table 5

Summary of the ear algorithms using CNN.

AuthorDatasetAccuracySummary

Emeršič et al. [60]NA30It used handcrafted feature extraction methods such as LBP, POEM, and CNN to obtain the ear identification
Tian et al. [21]AMI, WPUT, IITD, and UERC70.58, 67.01, 81.98, and 57.75This system used deep CNN to perform ear recognition. There were occlusions like no earrings, headsets, or similar occlusions
Raveane et al. [64]NA98This system used variable conditions due to the odd shape human ear and changing lighting conditions
Zhang and Mu [65]UND and UBEAR100 and 98.22This system contained large occlusions, scale, and pose variation
Kohlakala and Coetzer [66]AMI and IIT-Delhi99.2 and 96.06It is used to classify ears either in the foreground or background of the image. The binary contour image applied the matching for feature extraction, and this was performed by implementing Euclidean distance measure, which had a ranking to verify for authentication
Tomczyk and Szczepaniak [67]NANAIt shows the published experimental results that the approach did the rotation equivalence property to detect rotated structures
Alshazly et al. [68]Three ear datasets but not stated22The paper took seven performing handcrafted descriptors to extract the discriminating ear image. Then took the extracted ear and trained it using SVM to learn a suitable model
Alkababji and Mohammed [69]NA97.8It used the PCA and a genetic algorithm for feature reduction and selection
Jamil et al. [70]Very underexposed or overexposed database97This work was the first to test the performance of CNN on very underexposed or overexposed images
Hansley et al. [71]UERC challengeNAThis was performed using handcrafted descriptors, which were fused to improve recognition