Efficient iris recognition scheme based on difference of filters

  • Authors:
  • G. S. El-taweel;A. K. Helmy

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Suez Canal University, Cairo, Egypt;National Authority of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Cairo, Egypt

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Computer Research
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

With a growing emphasis on human identification, iris recognition has recently received increasing attention. In this paper, an efficient biometric scheme for iris recognition system with high performance is introduced. First, the irises are localized using an effective integral differential operator. Then the localized iris image is normalized to handle different size, variation in illumination and pupil dilation. Finally, we propose a novel and efficient approach to iris feature extraction using a set of filters, called difference-of-sum filters. These filters can take advantage of a pre-computed integral image, which makes the filtering process take constant computation time no matter how big the filters are. Experimental evaluation shows that the new method has higher recognition accuracy and is faster than previous methods. The false acceptance rate was reduced by 7% in comparison with the iris code method.