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Exploiting superior CNN-based iris segmentation for better recognition accuracy
摘要： CNN-based iris segmentations have been proven to be superior to traditional iris segmentation techniques in terms of segmentation error metrics. To properly utilize them in a traditional biometric recognition systems requires a parameterization of the iris, based on the generated segmentation, to obtain the normalised iris texture typically used for feature extraction. This is an unsolved problem. We will introduce a method to parameterize CNN based segmentation, bridging the gap between CNN based segmentation and the rubbersheet-transform. The parameterization enables the CNN segmentation as full segmentation step in any regular iris biometric system, or alternatively the segmentation can be utilized as a noise mask for other segmentation methods. Both of these options will be evaluated.
关键词： Iris segmentation,CNN,Parameterization of iris masks,Iris biometrics
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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FRED-Net: Fully Residual Encoder-Decoder Network for Accurate Iris Segmentation
摘要： Iris recognition is now developed enough to recognize a person from a distance. The process of iris segmentation plays a vital role in maintaining the accuracy of the iris-based recognition systems by limiting the errors at the current stage. However, its performance is affected by non-ideal situations created by environmental light noise and user non-cooperation. The existing local feature-based segmentation methods are unable to find the true iris boundary in these non-ideal situations, and the error created at the segmentation stage traverses to all the subsequent stages, which results in reduced accuracy and reliability. In addition, it is necessary to segment the true iris boundary without the extra cost of denoising as preprocessing. To overcome these challenging issues during iris segmentation, a deep learning-based fully residual encoder-decoder network (FRED-Net) is proposed to determine the true iris region with the flow of high-frequency information from the preceding layers via residual skip connection. The main four impacts and significances of this study are as follows. First, FRED-Net is an end-to-end semantic segmentation network that does not use conventional image processing schemes, and does not have a preprocessing overhead. It is a standalone network in which eyelid, eyelash, and glint detections are not required to obtain the true iris boundary. Second, the proposed FRED-Net is the final resultant structure of a step-by-step development, and in each step, a new complete variant network is created for semantic segmentation considering the detailed descriptions of the networks. Third, FRED-Net uses the residual connectivity between convolutional layers by the residual shortcut for both encoder and decoder, which enables a high-frequency component to flow through the network and achieve higher accuracy with few layers. Fourth, the performance of the proposed FRED-Net is tested with five different iris datasets under visible and NIR light environments, and two general road scene segmentation datasets. To achieve fair comparisons with other studies, our trained FRED-Net models, along with the algorithms, are made publicly available through our website (Dongguk FRED-Net Model with Algorithm. accessed on 16 May 2018). The experiments include two datasets: Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation - Part II (NICE-II) selected from the UBIRIS.v2 database and Mobile Iris Challenge Evaluation (MICHE-I), for the visible light environment and three datasets: Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) v4.0 interval, v4.0 distance, and IIT Delhi v1.0, for the near-infrared (NIR) light environment. Moreover, to evaluate the performance of the proposed network in general segmentation, experiments with two famous road scene segmentation datasets: Cambridge-driving Labeled Video Database (CamVid) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (KITTI), are included. The experimental results showed the optimum performance of the proposed FRED-Net on the above-mentioned seven datasets of iris and general road scene segmentation.
关键词： iris segmentation,full residual encoder-decoder network,Iris recognition,semantic segmentation
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Biometric iris recognition using radial basis function neural network
摘要： The consistent and efficient method for the identification of biometrics is the iris recognition in view of the fact that it has richness in texture information. A good number of features performed in the past are built on handcrafted features. The proposed method is based on the feed-forward architecture and uses k-means clustering algorithm for the iris patterns classification. In this paper, segmentation of iris is performed using the circular Hough transform that realizes the iris boundaries in the eye and isolates the region of iris with no eyelashes and other constrictions. Moreover, Daugman's rubber sheet model is used to transform the resultant iris portion into polar coordinates in the process of normalization. A unique iris code is generated by log-Gabor filter to extract the features. The classification is achieved using neural network structures, the feed-forward neural network and the radial basis function neural network. The experiments have been conducted using the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Automation (CASIA) iris database. The proposed system decreases computation time, size of the database and increases the recognition accuracy as compared to the existing algorithms.
关键词： Feed-forward neural network (FNN),Iris segmentation,Normalization,Biometrics,Radial basis function neural network (RBFNN),Iris recognition
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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An Efficient and Robust Iris Segmentation Algorithm Using Deep Learning
摘要： Iris segmentation is a critical step in the entire iris recognition procedure. Most of the state-of-the-art iris segmentation algorithms are based on edge information. However, a large number of noisy edge points detected by a normal edge-based detector in an image with specular reflection or other obstacles will mislead the pupillary boundary and limbus boundary localization. In this paper, we present a combination method of learning-based and edge-based algorithms for iris segmentation. A well-designed Faster R-CNN with only six layers is built to locate and classify the eye. With the bounding box found by Faster R-CNN, the pupillary region is located using a Gaussian mixture model. Then, the circular boundary of the pupillary region is fit according to five key boundary points. A boundary point selection algorithm is used to find the boundary points of the limbus, and the circular boundary of the limbus is constructed using these boundary points. Experimental results showed that the proposed iris segmentation method achieved 95.49% accuracy on the challenging CASIA-Iris-Thousand database.
关键词： Iris segmentation,Faster R-CNN,Gaussian mixture model,Boundary point selection,Deep learning
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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[IEEE 2019 International Conference on Computing, Electronics & Communications Engineering (iCCECE) - London, United Kingdom (2019.8.22-2019.8.23)] 2019 International Conference on Computing, Electronics & Communications Engineering (iCCECE) - Detailed Analysis of IRIS Recognition Performance
摘要： Iris recognition is a well-known biometric identification system which distinguishes authentic and imposter individuals based on the features of their irides. It employs stringent statistical analyses of the features of irides due to the fact that each person has a unique iris, just like a fingerprint. In this work, the approach adopted towards the iris recognition problem is through an exhaustive and careful analysis of the statistical properties of the iris images and the randomness of spurious noise effects. The ability to differentiate two different templates from each other improves with the increase in the number of the degrees of freedom (DOF). The DOF depends on the encoding schemes utilized and moreover, it is hypothesized that the encoding schemes used in themselves could influence the recognition performance. The CASIA (Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Automation) version 1 database of iris images used in this study has been modified by the addition of artificial noise in order to simulate practical real life in situ noisy iris capture environments. The classical and state-of-the-art segmentation techniques have been compared, determining whether they are superior to the others under several conditions. The 1D, 2D Gabor filters and the short window implementation were all tested. The conclusion was that the 2D Gabor Filters produce a lower equal error rate (EER), higher accuracy and decidability than by using the one-dimensional log Gabor filter. After modifying the one-dimensional log Gabor filters, a lower EER and higher accuracy was found as the noise level increased. This makes the modified 1D log Gabor Filters a better proposition in noisy conditions. The generated iris templates have a predetermined theoretical value of DOF and from the statistical analysis, an experimental value can be determined. The relation between these values can be used as a metric to compare different databases.
关键词： CASIA iris image database,decidability,equal error rate,degrees of freedom,recognition,accuracy,iris encoding,low-resolution images,CASIA-iris segmentation
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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A Novel Edge-Map Creation Approach for Highly Accurate Pupil Localization in Unconstrained Infrared Iris Images
摘要： Iris segmentation in the iris recognition systems is a challenging task under noncooperative environments. The iris segmentation is a process of detecting the pupil, iris’s outer boundary, and eyelids in the iris image. In this paper, we propose a pupil localization method for locating the pupils in the non-close-up and frontal-view iris images that are captured under near-infrared (NIR) illuminations and contain the noise, such as specular and lighting reflection spots, eyeglasses, nonuniform illumination, low contrast, and occlusions by the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrow hair. In the proposed method, first, a novel edge-map is created from the iris image, which is based on combining the conventional thresholding and edge detection based segmentation techniques, and then, the general circular Hough transform (CHT) is used to find the pupil circle parameters in the edge-map. Our main contribution in this research is a novel edge-map creation technique, which reduces the false edges drastically in the edge-map of the iris image and makes the pupil localization in the noisy NIR images more accurate, fast, robust, and simple. The proposed method was tested with three iris databases: CASIA-Iris-Thousand (version 4.0), CASIA-Iris-Lamp (version 3.0), and MMU (version 2.0). The average accuracy of the proposed method is 99.72% and average time cost per image is 0.727 sec.
关键词： pupil localization,iris segmentation,edge-map creation,non-close-up iris images,circular Hough transform,near-infrared illuminations
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14
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Novel Segmentation of Iris Images for Biometric Authentication Using Multi Feature Volumetric Measure
摘要： The aim of the research is to improve the efficiency of biometric authentication using different features of iris image. The biometric authentication and verification has become more popular where the authentication is more essential in many organizations. There are many approaches has been discussed to segment the iris image and to perform verification but suffers with the problem of accuracy in feature extraction and segmentation. To resolve such problems and to improve the efficiency of iris segmentation and recognition, we propose a novel segmentation algorithm which uses multi level filter which removes the eyelids and eyelash features and performs the edge detection to identify the inner and outer eye regions. Once the regions has been identified then, we compute various measures like the size of inner and outer eyes and extract the features of both and convert them in to feature vectors. The generated feature vectors are used to perform classification in biometric authentication approach. The multi feature volumetric measure is computed on the feature vector of each eye image where the feature vector has various features like the size of both inner and outer eyes, width and height, the original binary features, the number of binary ones and the number of pixels damaged by any form of disease and so on. Based on these features the MFVM is computed to classify the iris image towards a big data set of biometric features to perform authentication. The proposed method has improved the efficiency of iris segmentation and improved the efficiency of iris recognition based biometric authentication. Also the approach has reduced the time complexity and improved the efficiency also.
关键词： MFVM,iris segmentation,iris recognition,Biometric authentication,multi level filtering
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14