Title
Cross-Spectral Periocular Recognition with Conditional Adversarial Networks
Abstract
This work addresses the challenge of comparing periocular images captured in different spectra, which is known to produce significant drops in performance in comparison to operating in the same spectrum. We propose the use of Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks, trained to convert periocular images between visible and near-infrared spectra, so that biometric verification is carried out in the same spectrum. The proposed setup allows the use of existing feature methods typically optimized to operate in a single spectrum. Recognition experiments are done using a number of off-the-shelf periocular comparators based both on hand-crafted features and CNN descriptors. Using the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Cross-Spectral Iris Images Database (PolyU) as benchmark dataset, our experiments show that cross-spectral performance is substantially improved if both images are converted to the same spectrum, in comparison to matching features extracted from images in different spectra. In addition to this, we fine-tune a CNN based on the ResNet50 architecture, obtaining a cross-spectral periocular performance of EER=l%, and GAR>99% @ FAR=l%, which is comparable to the state-of-the-art with the PolyU database.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/IJCB48548.2020.9304899
2020 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Cross-Spectral periocular recognition,Conditional Adversarial Networks,periocular images,different spectra,significant drops,Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks,biometric verification,feature methods,single spectrum,recognition experiments,off-the-shelf periocular comparators,hand-crafted features,Hong Kong Polytechnic University Cross-Spectral Iris Images Database,cross-spectral performance,matching features,cross-spectral periocular performance
Conference
2474-9680
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-9187-4
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kevin Hernandez-Diaz151.76
Fernando Alonso-Fernandez253137.65
Josef Bigun342641.34