Quality driven iris recognition improvement

Sandra Cremer, Nadege Lemperiere, Bernadette Dorizzi, Sonia Garcia-Salicetti

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Abstract

The purpose of the work presented in this paper is to adapt the feature extraction and matching steps of iris recognition to the quality of the input images. To this end we define a GMM-based global quality metric associated to a pair of normalized iris images. It quantifies the amount of artifact in these images as well as the amount of texture in artifact-free regions. First we use this metric to adjust, for each pair of irises, the proportion of the normalized image selected on a local quality criteria for feature extraction. This approach is tested with two matching techniques: one performs a bit to bit comparison of binary feature vectors and the other one computes local cross-correlations between real valued vectors. We show that our approach is effective with both techniques. Then we use our metric to choose the matching technique that is best adapted to each image pair in order to make a good compromise between accuracy and speed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBIOSIG 2013 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group
EditorsArslan Bromme, Christoph Busch
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9783885796060
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG 2013 - Darmstadt, Germany
Duration: 4 Sept 20136 Sept 2013

Publication series

NameBIOSIG 2013 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group

Conference

Conference12th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG 2013
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityDarmstadt
Period4/09/136/09/13

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