This document describes research on algorithms for recognizing ear tags for biometric identification. It presents three algorithms: 1) using discrete cosine transformation to distinguish ear image characteristics, which achieved 86% accuracy; 2) using principal component analysis of ear images, which achieved 89% accuracy; and 3) segmenting ear images into static marks, which achieved the best result of 92% accuracy with 12 marks. The discrete cosine method was less accurate due to extracting too many characteristics, while the principal component and segmentation methods performed better with fewer extracted characteristics.