Title
A novel framework for cross-spectral iris matching.
Abstract
Previous work on iris recognition focused on either visible light (VL), near-infrared (NIR) imaging, or their fusion. However, limited numbers of works have investigated cross-spectral matching or compared the iris biometric performance under both VL and NIR spectrum using unregistered iris images taken from the same subject. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that proposes a framework for cross-spectral iris matching using unregistered iris images. To this end, three descriptors are proposed namely, Gabor-difference of Gaussian (G-DoG), Gabor-binarized statistical image feature (G-BSIF), and Gabor-multi-scale Weberface (G-MSW) to achieve robust cross-spectral iris matching. In addition, we explore the differences in iris recognition performance across the VL and NIR spectra. The experiments are carried out on the UTIRIS database which contains iris images acquired with both VL and NIR spectra for the same subject. Experimental and comparison results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art cross-spectral matching. In addition, the results indicate that the VL and NIR images provide complementary features for the iris pattern and their fusion improves notably the recognition performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1186/s41074-016-0009-9
IPSJ Trans. Computer Vision and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Iris recognition, Cross-spectral matching, Multi-spectral recognition, Photometric normalization, Score fusion
Iris recognition,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Gaussian,Artificial intelligence,Biometrics,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1882-6695
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammed A. M. Abdullah1364.31
S. S. Dlay219823.94
W. L. Woo332549.88
Jonathon A. Chambers4566.96