A novel framework for cross-spectral iris matching

Abdullah, Mohammed, Dlay, Satnam, Woo, Wai Lok and Chambers, Jonathon (2016) A novel framework for cross-spectral iris matching. IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications, 8 (1). ISSN 1882-6695

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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.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Iris recognition, Cross-spectral matching, Multi-spectral recognition, Photometric normalization, Score fusion
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Paul Burns
Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2019 13:55
Last Modified: 01 Aug 2021 12:18
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/38758

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