Empirical Evidence for Correct Iris Match Score Degradation with Increased Time-Lapse between Gallery and Probe Matches

Authors:
Sarah E. Baker;Kevin W. Bowyer;Patrick J. Flynn
Affiliations:
University of Notre Dame,;University of Notre Dame,;University of Notre Dame,
Venue:
ICB '09 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Biometrics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We explore the effects of time lapse on iris biometrics using a data set of images with four years time lapse between the earliest and most recent images of an iris (13 subjects, 26 irises, 1809 total images). We find that the average fractional Hamming distance for a match between two images of an iris taken four years apart is statistically significantly larger than the match for images with only a few months time lapse between them. A possible implication of our results is that iris biometric enrollment templates may undergo aging and that iris biometric enrollment may not be "once for life." To our knowledge, this is the first and only experimental study of iris match scores under long (multi-year) time lapse.