A Comparative Analysis of 2D Ear Recognition for Constrained and Unconstrained Dataset Using Deep Learning Approach

Abstract

In this paper, we have made a comparative analysis of ear recognition for constrained and unconstrained dataset. We have also analyzed the effect of image quality like illumination, occlusion, brightness, and pose variation in our work. We have addressed the problem of limited dataset for ear recognition task using deep learning-based approach. We aim at building a deep convolutional neural network model that does the task of classification for ear recognition task. Our model considers both constrained and unconstrained dataset of ear image for analysis purpose. In this paper, we have explored the benefits of deep learning and its different approached to enhance the performance ear based biometric systems where sample images are captured in constrained and unconstrained condition. This paper mainly focuses on creation of deep learning model and compared its performance on three different datasets (AWE, AMI, and IITD-II) of ear images by varying the network architecture.