Ears are a new biometric with major advantage in that they appear to maintain their shape with increased age. Any automatic biometric system needs enrolment to extract the target area from the background. In ear biometrics the inputs are often human head profile images. Furthermore ear biometrics is concerned with the effects of partial occlusion mostly caused by hair and earrings. We propose a...

The materials of the catacomb burial, investigated in 1988 by expedition Kharkiv Historical Museum under leadership V. H. Borodulin, located on main site early medieval burial ground near Verkhnii Saltiv village (Verkhnii Burial Ground-I, hereinafter — VSBG-I), are introduced into scientific circulation. had a long (6.3 m) and deep (5.05 dromos, western part which path re-entry chamber was fixa...

We show that it is consistent relative to a weakly compact cardinal strong homology additive and compactly supported within the class of locally separable metric spaces. This complements work Mardešić Prasolov [14] showing Continuum Hypothesis implies countable sum Hawaiian earrings witnesses failure possess either these properties. Our results build directly on Lambie-Hanson second author [3] ...

Reports of foreign bodies in the oronasal complex have included bullets, impression materials, teeth, fish bones, needles, plastics, pistachio nuts, earrings, and the traumatic implantation of a toothbrush." These foreign bodies have been found by palpation, direct visualization, or as incidental findings on radiographs. A thorough history may establish an etiology and time frame in which the f...

Postoperative quality of life after parotidectomy depends not only on surgical outcomes, such as the complete removal of a tumour, non-recurrence and the preservation of facial nerve function, but also on scar satisfaction and the degree of sensory dysfunction in the upper cervical area and at the ear lobe. Especially young patients and women consider the scar in the infra-auricular area and in...

Metals, especially nickel, are the most common contact allergens in children. Recent data has shown increased incidence of allergy in industrialized countries. Sensitization can occur at any age, even in neonates. Costume jewelry, particularly earrings, is linked to increased sensitization to nickel. Sensitization to cobalt often occurs by the use of costume jewelry. The most common source of s...

Previous works have shown that the ear is a promising candidate for biometric identification. However, in prior work, the pre-processing of ear images has had manual steps, and algorithms have not necessarily handled problems caused by hair and earrings. We present a complete system for ear biometrics, including automated segmentation of the ear in a profile view image and 3D shape matching for...