Ear recognition is an active area of research within the biometric community. While work in this field has long focused on constrained, laboratory like-setting, recent approaches are looking increasingly at data acquired in unconstrained conditions and many techniques and approaches have been presented recently focusing on data captured in these so called “in-the-wild” settings. To promote research in these “in-the-wild” settings the Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (UERC) 2019 will bring together researchers working in the field of ear recognition and benchmark existing algorithms on a common dataset and under a predefined experimental protocol. UERC 2019 will build on the previous challenge, UERC 2017 (available on IEEE Xplore and on arXiv.org), organized in the scope of the 2017 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) and use the same dataset and protocol, thus enabling to examine and directly compare the progress made in the field since 2017.
The results of the challenge will be published in a summary paper authored jointly by all participants of the challenge.