In face recognition technology, facial marks identification method is one of the unique facial identification tasks using soft biometrics. Also facial marks information can enhance the face matching score to improve the face recognition performance. As numbers of folk apply their face with cosmetic items, some of the facial marks are invisible or hidden from their faces. In the literature, they...

Establishing the identity of the craftsmen of old Norwegian silver objects can be accomplished through the recognition of master-marks. Manually searching through the 6000 master-marks and 250 city-marks is tedious and unreliable. Our goal is to develop an efficient retrieval of images of masterand city-marks from large databases based on the shape content of the image. We are building an autom...