3 papers
cs.CV2026
Diffusion for De-Occlusion: Accessory-Aware Diffusion Inpainting for Robust Ear Biometric Recognition
Deeksha Arun, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick Flynn
Ear occlusions (arising from the presence of ear accessories such as earrings and earphones) can negatively impact performance in ear-based biometric recognition systems, especiall…
cs.CV2026
PaW-ViT: A Patch-based Warping Vision Transformer for Robust Ear Verification
Deeksha Arun, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick Flynn
The rectangular tokens common to vision transformer methods for visual recognition can strongly affect performance of these methods due to incorporation of information outside the…
cs.CV2025
How Does Bilateral Ear Symmetry Affect Deep Ear Features?
Kagan Ozturk, Deeksha Arun, Kevin W. Bowyer +1
Ear recognition has gained attention as a reliable biometric technique due to the distinctive characteristics of human ears. With the increasing availability of large-scale dataset…