More research using ears as identifiers shows low false positives

Researchers continue to look at human ears as a biometric identifier and the results continue to look promising.

A new, multi-ethnic study in the science journal Morphologie sampling 2,225 photos of the outside portions of ears showed a false-positive ID rate of less than 0.00007. Researchers said they even differentiated between identical twins, unlike face biometrics.

Subjects numbering 1,411 (633 females, 778 males) from Turkey, South Africa, Russia, Japan, India and Brazil volunteered. The database included 1,091 right ears and …

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