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Table 3

Summary of datasets.

DatabaseYearNumber of subjectsNumber of imagesLeft ear countRight ear countTotal earsImage sizeCountrySides

1Institute of Technology Delhi Ear Database (IIT Delhi-I) [16]2007121471471471272 × 204IndiaRight
Institute of Technology Delhi Ear Database (IIT Delhi-II) [16]NA221793793793272 × 204IndiaRight

2The University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB ear I) [17]200260185185185VariedChinaRight
The University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB ear II) [17]200477308308308VariedChinaRight

3The Annotated Web Ears database (AWE) [18]201610010005005001000VariedSloveniaBoth
The Annotated Web Ears database extended (AWE extend) [18]20173464104205220524104VariedSloveniaBoth

4Mathematical Analysis of Images Ear database (AMI) [19]NA106700420280700492 × 702SpainBoth

5The West Pomeranian University of Technology Ear database (WPUTE) [20]2010501207182912422071VariedPolandBoth

6Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge database (UERC) [21]20173706118045902590211804VariedSloveniaBoth

7EarVN1.0 [22]201816428412142061420628412Varied and low resolutionVietnamBoth

8The In-the-Wild Ear database (ITWE) [23]201555605424181605VariedSloveniaBoth

9The Carreira-Perpinan (CP) [24]199517102102102VariedNALeft

10The University of Beira Ear Database (UBEAR) [25]201112644302215221544301280 × 960MozambiqueBoth

11Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) [26]20118011909595190VariedIndiaBoth
12The Forensic Ear Identification Database (FEARID) [27]2005122912296156141229VariedUK, Italy, and NetherlandsBoth

13University of Notre Dame (UND) [28]20063480952952952VariedFranceLeft

14The Face Recognition Technology database $FERET) [29]20109427474537969494745VariedSpainBoth

15The Pose, Illumination and Expression (PIE) [30]20024000068343468VariedUSABoth

16The XM2VTS Ear database [31]NA236029589206295720 × 576UKBoth

17The West Virginia University (WVU) [32]2006460402402402VariedUSALeft