Profile Authentication Using a Chamfer Matching Algorithm

This paper investigates the use of the profile shape to recognize human faces. In order to test the intrinsic efficiency of profile authentication, we will make use of a method that directly works on the profile contour encoded as x-y coordinates. This way, the performance rated here will only depend on the ability of the profile view to dissociate faces and not on the choice of a given set of profile features and/or the quality of their extraction.