Research Article

Exploration of Ear Biometrics Using EfficientNet

Table 2

Summary of the related works.

AuthorDatasetAccuracySummary

Emeršič et al. [3]NA30It was a handcrafted feature extraction method, such as LBP and patterns of oriented edge magnitudes (POEM), and CNN-based feature extraction methods were used to obtain the ear identification

Tian and Mu [4]AMI, WPUT, IITD, and UERC70.58, 67.01, 81.98, and 57.75This system used deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to ear recognition. There were occlusions like no earrings, headsets, or similar occlusions

Raveane et al. [5]NA98This system used variable conditions, and this could also be because of the odd shape of the human ears and changing lighting conditions

Zhang and Mu [6]Notre Dame Biometrics database and University of Beira Interior Ear dataset100 and 98.22This system contained large occlusions, scale, and pose variation

Kohlakala and Coetzer [7]Mathematical Analysis of Images Ear database and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Ear database99.2 and 96.06It is used to classify ears in either the foreground or background of the image. The binary contour image applied the matching for feature extraction, and this was done by implementing a Euclidean distance measure, which had a ranking to verify for authentication

Tomczyk and Szczepaniak [8]NANAIt shows the published experimental results that the approach did the rotation equivalence property to detect rotated structures

Hammam et al. [9]Three ear datasets but not stated22The paper took seven performing handcrafted descriptors to extract the discriminating ear image. They then took the extracted ear and trained it using support vector machines (SVM) to learn a suitable model

Alkababji and Mohammed [10]NA97.8It used the principal component analysis (PCA) and a genetic algorithm for feature reduction and selection

Jamil et al. [11]Very underexposed or overexposed database97They considered that their work was the first to test the performance of CNN on very underexposed or overexposed images

Hansley et al. [12]UERC challengeNAThis was done using handcrafted descriptors, which were fused to improve recognition