Title
A Deep Feature Fusion Network Based On Multiple Attention Mechanisms For Joint Iris-Periocular Biometric Recognition
Abstract
Joint iris-periocular recognition based on feature fusion can overcome some inherent drawbacks of unimodal biometrics, but most of the prior works are limited by conventional feature extraction approaches and fixed fusion schemes. To achieve more accurate and adaptive recognition, an end-to-end deep feature fusion network for joint iris-periocular recognition is proposed in this paper. Multiple attention mechanisms including self-attention and co-attention mechanisms are integrated into the network. Specifically, two forms of self-attention mechanisms, spatial attention and channel attention, are inserted into the feature extraction module, aiming to effectively learn the most important features and suppress unnecessary ones. Also, co-attention mechanism is introduced in the feature fusion module, which can adaptively fuse features to obtain more representative iris-periocular features. Additionally, in order to further enhance the discriminative power of the learned features, the proposed network is trained with a joint supervision of softmax loss and center loss. On two publicly available datasets, the proposed network with a small number of parameters outperforms unimodal biometrics and several iris-periocular recognition approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/LSP.2021.3079850
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Iris recognition, Feature extraction, Biometrics (access control), Iris, Databases, Convolution, Training, Iris-periocular feature fusion, self-attention mechanism, co-attention mechanism, jointly supervised loss
Journal
28
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1070-9908
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhengding Luo111.36
Junting Li200.34
Zhu Yuesheng311239.21