Hair
Poils & Cheveux

Androgenic hair, also called body hair, and its associated follicles, are a stable biometric trait and can be used for identification:

• The hair you have (or not) on your head, from the top: headprint
• Or from the face: hair
• Other part of your body with hair: legs, chest, arms ...

• (2014 Apr) A Study on Low Resolution Androgenic Hair Patterns for Criminal and Victim Identification / Han Su ; Adams Wai Kin Kong

• (2014 Aug) Using Leg Geometry to Align Androgenic Hair Patterns in Low Resolution Images for Criminal and Victim Identification / Frodo Kin-Sun Chan ; Adams Wai-Kin Kong [Singapore]

• (2014 Nov) Criminal And Victim Identification Using Androgenic Hair Patterns In Low Resolution Images / Y.Shajin; Mr A.Daniel Gurwin Das

(same title as the previous paper... but not the same paper !)

• (2015 Apr) Criminal And Victim Identification Using Androgenic Hair Patterns In Low Resolution Images / Anu Mathews; Simi Indiradevi

• (2015) Hair Patterns and Skin Marks for Criminal and Victim Identification using RPPSM Approach / K.G. Sudhai, S.V. Rasjeswari

• (2015) Study of identification of criminals and dupe by androgenic hair patterns / Praveen R. Joshi

• (2016 Apr) Criminal Identification Based on Androgenic Hair Pattern Using KNN-Clustering Method / T V Raghava Kaushik, Sushmitha Sudarsan, M Sandeep and Ms. S. Sudarvizhi

• (2016) A Person Identification by Androgenic Hair Patterns On Low Resolution Images Using Neural Network Analysis with Gabor Filter / Ritu Sharma; Prof. Sangita Nikumbh

• (2016) Androgenic Hair Pattern: A New Approach for Identifying Criminals and Victim / Ms. Shraddha R. Thakare, Dr. Balaji G. Hogade

• (2006 Jul) Detection and analysis of hair / Yaser Yacoob, Larry Davis

• (2010) Automatic Hair Detection in the Wild / P. Julian; C. Dehais; F. Lauze; V. Charvillat; A. Bartoli; A. Choukroun

• (2014) On Hair Recognition in the Wild by Machine / Joseph Roth; Xiaoming Liu

After separation of hair area from the background in overhead imagery, extraction of features that characterize the color and texture of hair is done for identification purpose. Although the visual appearance of hair cannot be used as a long-term biometric due to the nonrigid nature of hair, a realistic scenario where the time interval between gallery and probe imagery is short enough can achieve reliable performance.

Papers :

• (2000) Vision-based overhead view person recognition / Cohen, Garg, Huang
• (2005) Headprint – Person Reacquisition Using Visual Features of Hair in Overhead Surveillance Video / Hrishikesh Aradhye, Martin Fischler, Robert Bolles and Gregory Myers .
• (2008) Advances in Biometrics / Headprint-Based Human Recognition / same authors.
• (2012 Apr) Newborn Verification Using Headprint / Shrikant Tiwari, Sanjay Kumar Singh
• (2013 Apr) Multimodal Database of Newborns for Biometric Recognition / Shrikant Tiwari, Aruni Singh and Sanjay Kumar Singh