A robust iris localization scheme for the iris recognition
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A robust iris localization scheme for the iris recognition Farmanullah Jan 1 Irfanullah Khan 1
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Received: 6 August 2019 / Revised: 8 August 2020 / Accepted: 2 September 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract
Due to current security situations around the globe, iris biometric technology is highly preferred for both overt and covert applications. A typical iris biometric system includes image acquisition, iris segmentation, features extraction, and matching and recognition modules. Amongst these modules, iris segmentation plays a decisive role because it segments the valid iris part in an input eyeimage. It includes two tasks: iris localization and noise (e.g., eyelids) removal. Notably, the overall performance of an iris biometric system strongly relies on the iris localization task, because it demarcates the actual iris contours. Some contemporary iris localization schemes search over a three-dimensional (3D) space while marking iris boundaries, which is a time-consuming process if not optimized properly. Besides, some schemes also resort to the fixed and/or crude thresholding-based techniques for pupil localization. Notably, such schemes may perform poorly if image data do not maintain quality. To address these issues, this study proposes a robust iris localization scheme maintaining both speed and accuracy. It includes preprocessing the input eyeimage using an order statistic-filter and the bilinear interpolation scheme, extracting an adaptive threshold using the image’s histogram, processing binary image via the morphological operators, extracting pupil’s center and radius based on the centroid and geometry concepts, marking iris outer boundary using the Circular Hough transform (CHT) and refining coarse iris boundaries through the Fourier series. The proposed scheme exhibits relatively better experimental results compared with some contemporary iris localization schemes on the public iris databases: IITD V1.0, CASIAIris-Interval and MMU V1.0. Keywords Pupil localization . Iris localization . Iris biometrics . Iris segmentation . Digital image processing . Security and surveillance
* Farmanullah Jan [email protected]; [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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1 Introduction The Information technology (IT) has been passed through tremendous advances over the last few decades. Both hardware and software platforms have been improved significantly. Due to these advances, the research community has actively been engaged in developing new software applications, hardware gadgets, and IT-based solutions to numerous applications such as health and care, e-commerce, smart cities, etc. Due to current delicate security situations, the research community around the globe has also focused on the secure and reliable applications of the Biometric technology [2, 12, 15, 22]. In this concern, researchers have been working on improving
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