虹膜图像预处理算法研究

针对目前已有的虹膜图像预处理算法的局限性，提出了一套新型的虹膜图像预处理算法。此算法对虹膜图像进行了精确的定位，使定位后的虹膜图像具有旋转、平移和尺度的不变性。在完全相同的实验条件下，运用MATLAB软件对104个虹膜图像组成的虹膜数据库进行预处理，本算法只需要7min 50s的运行时间，而当前最流行的Daugman的算法大约需要1h，从而证明了本方法的运行速度约为Daugman方法的8倍，克服了当前流行算法计算量过大的问题。     

虹膜图像内外边缘定位算法研究

虹膜定位是虹膜识别过程中的重要环节,定位的速度和精度决定了整个虹膜识别系统的性能,精确的虹膜定位是有效进行虹膜识别的前提,所以一种简洁有效的虹膜定位算法是至关重要的。针对现有的虹膜定位算法的局限性,提出了一种新的虹膜定位算法。首先从虹膜图像的灰度直方图入手,分析虹膜图像的结构及其灰度分布,先用二值化的方法分离出瞳孔,再用数学形态学方法对其进行膨胀和腐蚀运算,然后确定瞳孔的圆心和半径,对内边缘进行精确定位。利用虹膜定位的先验知识,在缩小搜索范围的基础上,再用形态学算法与新的Hough变换相结合来进行虹膜图像外边缘的定位,确定外圆圆心及半径。实验结果证明了该算法的有效性和可行性。     

基于球面Haar小波和卷积神经网络的飞行员虹膜识别

虹膜识别面临两个重要的问题：一是如何精细分解与重构虹膜球面图像;二是如何识别虹膜图特征。虹膜表面几何位置信息是一种重要的信号,传统的虹膜识别通常使用虹膜图像的平面特征,然而人的眼睛是一种球体,从平面图像难以提取到虹膜球体的几何特征。针对平面特征容易出现虹膜纹理的扭曲和失真等问题,该文建议一种正交对称的球面Haar小波(OSSHW)基,对球面虹膜信号进行多尺度分解与重构,获得更精细的虹膜曲面几何特征,同时对比球谐函数和半正交或正交球面Haar小波基的虹膜球面信号特征提取能力。在此基础上,该文提出一种基于卷积神经网络(CNN)和正交对称的球面Haar小波的虹膜识别方法,它能够有效捕获虹膜球体曲面的局部精细特征,比半正交或正交球面Haar小波基具有更强的虹膜识别能力。     

Improving iris recognition accuracy via cascaded classifiers

As a reliable approach to human identification, iris recognition has received increasing attention in recent years. The most distinguishing feature of an iris image comes from the fine spatial changes of the image structure. So iris pattern representation must characterize the local intensity variations in iris signals. However, the measurements from minutiae are easily affected by noise, such as occlusions by eyelids and eyelashes, iris localization error, nonlinear iris deformations, etc. This greatly limits the accuracy of iris recognition systems. In this paper, an elastic iris blob matching algorithm is proposed to overcome the limitations of local feature based classifiers (LFC). In addition, in order to recognize various iris images efficiently a novel cascading scheme is proposed to combine the LFC and an iris blob matcher. When the LFC is uncertain of its decision, poor quality iris images are usually involved in intra-class comparison. Then the iris blob matcher is resorted to determine the input iris' identity because it is capable of recognizing noisy images. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the cascaded classifiers significantly improve the system's accuracy with negligible extra computational cost.     

基于球面Haar小波和卷积神经网络的飞行员虹膜识别

虹膜识别面临两个重要的问题:一是如何精细分解与重构虹膜球面图像;二是如何识别虹膜图特征。虹膜表面几何位置信息是一种重要的信号,传统的虹膜识别通常使用虹膜图像的平面特征,然而人的眼睛是一种球体,从平面图像难以提取到虹膜球体的几何特征。针对平面特征容易出现虹膜纹理的扭曲和失真等问题,该文建议一种正交对称的球面Haar小波(OSSHW)基,对球面虹膜信号进行多尺度分解与重构,获得更精细的虹膜曲面几何特征,同时对比球谐函数和半正交或正交球面Haar小波基的虹膜球面信号特征提取能力。在此基础上,该文提出一种基于卷积神经网络(CNN)和正交对称的球面Haar小波的虹膜识别方法,它能够有效捕获虹膜球体曲面的局部精细特征,比半正交或正交球面Haar小波基具有更强的虹膜识别能力。     

Iris image segmentation based on phase congruency

Iris i mage recognition is a biometric feature recogni-tiontechnology developedin 1990s .Compared with oth-er biometric feature recognition,iris recognition hasmany advantages suchas uniqueness ,highstability,non-invasive,high peculiarity,anti-false and l…     

A novel iris segmentation using radial-suppression edge detection

Iris segmentation is a key step in the iris recognition system. The conventional methods of iris segmentation are based on the assumption that the inner and outer boundaries of an iris can be taken as circles. The region of the iris is segmented by detecting the circular inner and outer boundaries. However, we investigate the iris boundaries in the CASIA-IrisV3 database, and find that the actual iris boundaries are not always circular. In order to solve this problem, a new approach for iris segmentation based on radial-suppression edge detection is proposed in this paper. In the radial-suppression edge detection, a non-separable wavelet transform is used to extract the wavelet transform modulus of the iris image. Then, a new method of radial non-maxima suppression is proposed to retain the annular edges and simultaneously remove the radial edges. Next, a thresholding operation is utilized to remove the isolated edges and produce the final binary edge map. Based on the binary edge map, a self-adaptive method of iris boundary detection is proposed to produce final iris boundaries. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed iris segmentation is desirable.     

Applying a novelty filter as a matching criterion to iris recognition for binary and real-valued feature vectors

The main contributions of this paper are proposing a robust matching measure that employs multiple images of a subject to enroll an iris and that can be used with both types of feature vectors, real-valued and binary feature vectors. The first one is obtained using wavelet transforms and pixel intensity images and the second one using binary wavelet coefficients. The validation of the new matching measure proposed was done considering two utilization modes of the biometric system: verification mode and identification mode. The performance of the new matching measure is comparable to other published results. The vector with lower size was the one that uses binary wavelet coefficients, with only 10 bytes of information. Other authors reported binary feature vector sizes much greater than this one. Iris codification with vectors of lower sizes accounts for the construction of iris recognition embedded systems.     

虹膜识别平台搭建和数据库建设

介绍了一个高性价比的虹膜识别系统解决方案,其中包括一套自动化虹膜采集仪以及上位机识别软件.同时基于该平台,通过对序列图像进行质量评价,构建了一个中等规模的高质量虹膜数据库,并给出了数据库的几个关键参数,为虹膜识别算法的研究提供了很好的支持.     

Iris Recognition Using Wavelet Features

The traditional iris recognition systems require equal high quality human iris images. A cheap image acquisition system has difficulty in capturing equal high quality iris images. This paper describes a new feature representation method for iris recognition robust to noises. The disc-shaped iris image is first convolved with a low pass filter along the radial direction. Then, the radially smoothed iris image is decomposed in the angular direction using a one-dimensional continuous wavelet transform. Each decomposed one-dimensional waveform is approximated by an optimal piecewise linear curve connecting a small set of node points. The set of node points is used as a feature vector. The optimal approximation procedure reduces the feature vector size while maintaining recognition accuracy. The similarity between two iris images is measured by the normalized cross-correlation coefficients between optimal curves. The similarity between two iris images is estimated using mid-frequency bands. The rotation of one-dimensional signals due to the head tilt is estimated using the lowest frequency component. Experimentally we show the proposed method produces superb performance in iris recognition.