%0 Book Section %T Biometric Recognition Based on Line Shape Descriptors %A Anton Cervantes %A Gemma Sanchez %A Josep Llados %A Agnes Borras %A Ana Rodriguez %B Lecture Notes in Computer Science %D 2006 %V 3926 %I Springer Link %F Anton Cervantes2006 %O DAG %O exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=685), last updated on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:16:36 +0200 %X Abstract. In this paper we propose biometric descriptors inspired by shape signatures traditionally used in graphics recognition approaches. In particular several methods based on line shape descriptors used to iden- tify newborns from the biometric information of the ears are developed. The process steps are the following: image acquisition, ear segmentation, ear normalization, feature extraction and identification. Several shape signatures are defined from contour images. These are formulated in terms of zoning and contour crossings descriptors. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the used techniques. %U http://www.springerlink.com/content/p3670u857605t873/ %U http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/CSL2006.pdf %P 346–357,