An iris segmentation algorithm based on edge orientation for off-angle iris recognition

Author(s):  
Mahmut Karakaya ◽  
Del Barstow ◽  
Hector Santos-Villalobos ◽  
Christopher Boehnen
Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1434
Author(s):  
Yung-Hui Li ◽  
Wenny Ramadha Putri ◽  
Muhammad Saqlain Aslam ◽  
Ching-Chun Chang

Iris segmentation plays an important and significant role in the iris recognition system. The prerequisite for accurate iris recognition is the correctness of iris segmentation. However, the efficiency and robustness of traditional iris segmentation methods are severely challenged in a non-cooperative environment because of unfavorable factors, for instance, occlusion, blur, low resolution, off-axis, motion, and specular reflections. All of the above factors seriously reduce the accuracy of iris segmentation. In this paper, we present a novel iris segmentation algorithm that localizes the outer and inner boundaries of the iris image. We propose a neural network model called “Interleaved Residual U-Net” (IRUNet) for semantic segmentation and iris mask synthesis. The K-means clustering is applied to select saliency points set in order to recover the outer boundary of the iris, whereas the inner border is recovered by selecting another set of saliency points on the inner side of the mask. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed iris segmentation algorithm can achieve the mean IOU value of 98.9% and 97.7% for inner and outer boundary estimation, respectively, which outperforms the existing approaches on the challenging CASIA-Iris-Thousand database.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.5) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Anis Farihan Mat Raffei ◽  
Rohayanti Hassan ◽  
Shahreen Kasim ◽  
Hishamudin Asmuni ◽  
Asraful Syifaa’ Ahmad ◽  
...  

The quality of eye image data become degraded particularly when the image is taken in the non-cooperative acquisition environment such as under visible wavelength illumination. Consequently, this environmental condition may lead to noisy eye images, incorrect localization of limbic and pupillary boundaries and eventually degrade the performance of iris recognition system. Hence, this study has compared several segmentation methods to address the abovementioned issues. The results show that Circular Hough transform method is the best segmentation method with the best overall accuracy, error rate and decidability index that more tolerant to ‘noise’ such as reflection.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachida Tobji ◽  
Wu Di ◽  
Naeem Ayoub

In Deep Learning, recent works show that neural networks have a high potential in the field of biometric security. The advantage of using this type of architecture, in addition to being robust, is that the network learns the characteristic vectors by creating intelligent filters in an automatic way, grace to the layers of convolution. In this paper, we propose an algorithm “FMnet” for iris recognition by using Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) and Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Network (MCNN). By taking into considerations the property of Convolutional Neural Networks to learn and work at different resolutions, our proposed iris recognition method overcomes the existing issues in the classical methods which only use handcrafted features extraction, by performing features extraction and classification together. Our proposed algorithm shows better classification results as compared to the other state-of-the-art iris recognition approaches.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 739-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Amjed ◽  
Fatimah Khalid ◽  
Rahmita Wirza O. K. Rahmat ◽  
Hizmawati Binit Madzin

Iris segmentation methods work based on ideal imaging conditions which produce good output results. However, the segmentation accuracy of an iris recognition system significantly influences its performance, especially with data that captured in unconstrained environment of the Smartphone. This paper proposes a novel segmentation method for unconstrained environment of the Smartphone videos based on choose the best frames from the videos and try to enhance the contrast of this frames by applying the two fuzzy logic membership functions on the negative image which delimit between dark and bright regions in able to make the dark region darker and the bright region brighter. This pre-processing step Facilitates the work of the Weighted Adaptive Hough Transform to automatically find the diameter of the iris region to apply the osiris v4.1. The proposed method results on the video of (Mobile Iris Challenge Evaluation (MICHE))-I, iris databases indicate a high level of accuracy and more efficient computationally using the proposed technique.


Author(s):  
Wai-Kin Kong ◽  
David Zhang

Accurate iris segmentation is presented in this paper, which is composed of two parts, reflection detection and eyelash detection. Eyelashes are classified into two categories, separable and multiple. An edge detector is applied to detect separable eyelashes, and intensity variances are used to recognize multiple eyelashes. Reflection is also divided into two types, strong and weak. A threshold and statistical model is proposed to recognize the strong and weak reflection, respectively. We have developed an iris recognition approach for testing the effectiveness of the proposed segmentation method. The results show that the proposed method can reduce recognition error for the iris recognition approach.


Author(s):  
Akinola Samuel Akinfende ◽  
Agbotiname Lucky Imoize ◽  
Olumide Simeon Ajose

<span>Iris image segmentation process based on graphical user interface (GUI) to accurately localize the iris structure is presented in this paper. The major challenge confronting the precision of an iris recognition model is how to determine the accuracy of the iris segmentation and localization. There are varying parameters that introduce constraints during feature extraction and these greatly affect the matching performance during iris localization. To this end, the Integro-differential operator, which involves the detection of inner and outer regions of the iris, and the circular hough transform, which is capable of detecting the circular boundary from the edge mapping were investigated, and an active contour model was evolved. In the evolved model, an emerging curve mapped with the zeros of the data set function is experimentally exploited. To demonstrate the suitability of the model for precise iris recognition, its parameters were compared against other related models. Simulation results show that the model has higher flexibility of substitution of images, and the images could be analyzed more accurately with less false rejections (FR) and false acceptance (FA) in comparison with the integro-differential operator. This implies that images could be analyzed faster using the evolved model, and easily substituted especially in situations where the need to care for numerous eye patients occur.</span>


2019 ◽  
Vol 267 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Zhongliang Luo ◽  
Jingguo Dai ◽  
Yingbiao Jia ◽  
Jiazhong He

In order to improve the performance of bovine iris image segmentation, an improved iris image segmentation algorithm is proposed according to the characteristics of bovine iris image. Firstly, based on mathematical morphology and noise suppression template, the inner and outer edges of bovine iris are detected by dynamic contour tracking and least squares fitting ellipse respectively. Then, the annular iris region is normalized. Finally, the normalized iris image is enhanced with adaptive image enhancement method. The experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively segment iris region, it has good performance of speed and accuracy for iris segmentation, and can eliminate the effects of uneven illumination, iris shrinkage and rotation, it promotes iris feature extraction and matching, which has certain reference significance for iris recognition research and meat food safety management of large livestock.


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