During the past four years, most of our research activities have been focused on image but also video and 3-D objects processing for security applications (watermarking and biometrics) and communications (talking heads, interfaces), with a specia

Reliable authorization and authentication are becoming necessary for many everyday applications such as boarding an aircraft, performing financial transaction, logging to a secure system etc. Identity verification becomes a challenging task when

The ear, as a biometric, has been given less attention, compared to other biometrics such as fingerprint, face and iris. Since it is a relatively new biometric, no commercial applications involving ear recognition are available. Intensive