Kai LIU(刘凯), Wei-dong ZHOU(周卫东), Chang-yu WANG(王长宇), Yu WANG(王玉)
(School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China)
Abstract-This paper presented an individual recognition algorithm for human iris using fractal dimension of grayscale extremums for feature extraction. Firstly，iris region was localized from an eye image with modified circle detector stemmed from Daugman’s integro-differential operator. Then, segmentation was used to extract the iris and to exclude occlusion from eyelids and eyelashes. The extracted iris was normalized and mapped to polar coordinates for matching. In feature encoding, a new approach based on fractal dimension of grayscale extremums was designed to extract textural features of iris. Finally, a normalized correlation classifier was employed to determine the agreement of two iris feature templates, and the feature template was rotated left and right to avoid the interference from rotation of eyes and tilting of head. The experimental results show that fractal dimension of grayscale extremums can extract textural features from iris image effectively, and the proposed recognition algorithm is accurate and efficient. The proposed algorithm was tested on CASIA-IrisV3-Interval iris database and the performance was evaluated based on the analysis of both False Accept Rate (FAR) and False Reject Rate (FRR) curves. Experimental results show that the proposed iris recognition algorithm is effective and efficient.
Key words-iris recognition; fractal dimension; normalized correlation
Manuscript Number: 1674-8042(2011)03-0235-05
doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8042.2011.03.008
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