Efficient thermal face recognition method using optimized curvelet features for biometric authentication

• Mona A. S. Ali ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: t.m.a.gaber@salford.ac.uk (TG); m.ali@kfu.edu.sa (MASA)

  Affiliations Computer Science Department, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudia Arabia, Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2192-3504

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• Mohamed Meselhy Eltoukhy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt, Department of Information Technology, College of Computing and Information Technology at Khulais, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Fathimathul Rajeena P. P.,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Computer Science Department, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Saudia Arabia

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• Tarek Gaber

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: t.m.a.gaber@salford.ac.uk (TG); m.ali@kfu.edu.sa (MASA)

  Affiliations Computer Science Department, Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

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