Visible Spectrum Iris Research Articles

Iris Features Extraction and Recognition based on the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)

Iris Biometric authentication is considered to be one of the most dependable biometric characteristics for identifying persons. In actuality, iris patterns have invariant, stable, and distinguishing properties for personal identification. Due to its excellent dependability in personal identification, iris recognition has received more attention. Current iris recognition methods give good results especially when NIR and specific capture conditions are used in collaboration with the user. On the other hand, values related to images captured using VW are affected by noise such as blurry images, eye skin, occlusion, and reflection, which negatively affects the overall performance of the recognition systems. In both NIR and visible spectrum iris images, this article presents an effective iris feature extraction strategy based on the scale-invariant feature transform algorithm (SIFT). The proposed method was tested on different databases such as CASIA v1 and ITTD v1, as NIR images, as well as UBIRIS v1 as visible-light color images. The proposed system gave good accuracy rates compared to existing systems, as it gave an accuracy rate of (96.2%) when using CASIA v1 and (96.4%) in ITTD v1, while the system accuracy dropped to (84.0 %) when using UBIRIS v1.

Video Presentation Attack Detection in Visible Spectrum Iris Recognition Using Magnified Phase Information

The gaining popularity of the visible spectrum iris recognition has sparked the interest in adopting it for various access control applications. Along with the popularity of visible spectrum iris recognition comes the threat of identity spoofing, presentation, or direct attack. This paper presents a novel scheme for detecting video presentation attacks in visible spectrum iris recognition system by magnifying the phase information in the eye region of the subject. The proposed scheme employs modified Eulerian video magnification (EVM) to enhance the subtle phase information in eye region and novel decision module to classify it as artefact(spoof attack) or normal presentation. The proposed decision module is based on estimating the change of phase information obtained from EVM, specially tailored to detect presentation attacks on video-based iris recognition systems in visible spectrum. The proposed scheme is extensively evaluated on the newly constructed database consisting of 62 unique iris video acquired using two smartphones-iPhone 5S and Nokia Lumia 1020. We also construct the artefact database with 62 iris acquired by replaying normal presentation iris video on iPad with retina display. Extensive evaluation of proposed presentation attack detection (PAD) scheme on the newly constructed database has shown an outstanding performance of average classification error rate = 0% supporting the robustness of the proposed PAD scheme.

Robust Scheme for Iris Presentation Attack Detection Using Multiscale Binarized Statistical Image Features

Vulnerability of iris recognition systems remains a challenge due to diverse presentation attacks that fail to assure the reliability when adopting these systems in real-life scenarios. In this paper, we present an in-depth analysis of presentation attacks on iris recognition systems especially focusing on the photo print attacks and the electronic display (or screen) attack. To this extent, we introduce a new relatively large scale visible spectrum iris artefact database comprised of 3300 iris normal and artefact samples that are captured by simulating five different attacks on iris recognition system. We also propose a novel presentation attack detection (PAD) scheme based on multiscale binarized statistical image features and linear support vector machines. Extensive experiments are carried out on four different publicly available iris artefact databases that have revealed the outstanding performance of the proposed PAD scheme when benchmarked with various well-established state-of-the-art schemes.

Smartphone based visible iris recognition using deep sparse filtering

Good biometric performance of iris recognition motivates it to be used for many large scale security and access control applications. Recent works have identified visible spectrum iris recognition as a viable option with considerable performance. Key advantages of visible spectrum iris recognition include the possibility of iris imaging in on-the-move and at-a-distance scenarios as compared to fixed range imaging in near-infra-red light. The unconstrained iris imaging captures the images with largely varying radius of iris and pupil. In this work, we propose a new segmentation scheme and adapt it to smartphone based visible iris images for approximating the radius of the iris to achieve robust segmentation. The proposed technique has shown the improved segmentation accuracy up to 85% with standard OSIRIS v4.1. This work also proposes a new feature extraction method based on deep sparse filtering to obtain robust features for unconstrained iris images. To evaluate the proposed segmentation scheme and feature extraction scheme, we employ a publicly available database and also compose a new iris image database. The newly composed iris image database (VSSIRIS) is acquired using two different smartphones – iPhone 5S and Nokia Lumia 1020 under mixed illumination with unconstrained conditions in visible spectrum. The biometric performance is benchmarked based on the equal error rate (EER) obtained from various state-of-art schemes and proposed feature extraction scheme. An impressive EER of 1.62% is obtained on our VSSIRIS database and an average gain of around 2% in EER is obtained on the public database as compared to the well-known state-of-art schemes.