Weighted adaptive Hough and ellipsopolar transforms for real-time iris segmentation
- 1 March 2012
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 283-290
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icb.2012.6199821
Abstract
Efficient and robust segmentation of less intrusively or non-cooperatively captured iris images is still a challenging task in iris biometrics. This paper proposes a novel two-stage algorithm for the localization and mapping of iris texture in images of the human eye into Daugman's doubly dimensionless polar coordinates. Motivated by the growing demand for real-time capable solutions, coarse center detection and fine boundary localization usually combined in traditional approaches are decoupled. Therefore, search space at each stage is reduced without having to stick to simpler models. Another motivation of this work is independence of sensors. A comparison of reference software on different datasets highlights the problem of database-specific optimizations in existing solutions. This paper instead proposes the application of Gaussian weighting functions to incorporate model-specific prior knowledge. An adaptive Hough transform is applied at multiple resolutions to estimate the approximate position of the iris center. Subsequent polar transform detects the first elliptic limbic or pupillary boundary, and an ellipsopolar transform finds the second boundary based on the outcome of the first. This way, both iris images with clear limbic (typical for visible-wavelength) and with clear pupillary boundaries (typical for near infrared) can be processed in a uniform manner.Keywords
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