A Novel Iris Segmentation Scheme
Open Access
- 1 January 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Mathematical Problems in Engineering
- Vol. 2014, 1-14
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/684212
Abstract
One of the key steps in the iris recognition system is the accurate iris segmentation from its surrounding noises including pupil, sclera, eyelashes, and eyebrows of a captured eye-image. This paper presents a novel iris segmentation scheme which utilizes the orientation matching transform to outline the outer and inner iris boundaries initially. It then employs Delogne-Kåsa circle fitting (instead of the traditional Hough transform) to further eliminate the outlier points to extract a more precise iris area from an eye-image. In the extracted iris region, the proposed scheme further utilizes the differences in the intensity and positional characteristics of the iris, eyelid, and eyelashes to detect and delete these noises. The scheme is then applied on iris image database, UBIRIS.v1. The experimental results show that the presented scheme provides a more effective and efficient iris segmentation than other conventional methods.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Council (NSC 102-2221-E-005-082)
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