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This paper presents a novel system for ear recognition based on ensembles of deep CNN-based models and more specifically the Visual Geometry Group (VGG)-like network architectures for extracting discriminative deep features from ear images. We began by training different networks of increasing depth on ear images with random weight initialization. Then, we examined pretrained models as feature extractors as well as fine-tuning them on ear images. After that, we built ensembles of the best models to further improve the recognition performance. We evaluated the proposed ensembles through identification experiments using ear images acquired under controlled and uncontrolled conditions from mathematical analysis of images (AMI), AMI cropped (AMIC) (introduced here), and West Pomeranian University of Technology (WPUT) ear datasets. The experimental results indicate that our ensembles of models yield the best performance with significant improvements over the recently published results. 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