scholarly journals A fast specular reflection removal based on pixels properties method

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 2358-2363
Author(s):  
Shahrizan Jamaludin ◽  
Nasharuddin Zainal ◽  
W. Mimi Diyana W. Zaki

Iris recognition has been around for many years due to an extensive research on the uniqueness of human iris. It is well known that the iris is not similar to each other which means every human in the planet has their own iris pattern and cannot be shared. One of the main issues in iris recognition is iris segmentation. One element that can reduce the accuracy of iris segmentation is the presence of specular reflection. Another issue is the speed of specular reflection removal since the iris recognition system needs to process a lot of irises. In this paper, a specular reflection removal method was proposed to achieve a fast and accurate specular reflection removal. Some modifications were implemented on the existing pixels properties method. Based on the results, the proposed method achieved the fastest execution time, the highest segmentation accuracy and the highest SSIM compared to the other methods. This proves that the proposed method is fast and accurate to be implemented in the iris recognition systems.

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 739-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Amjed ◽  
Fatimah Khalid ◽  
Rahmita Wirza O. K. Rahmat ◽  
Hizmawati Binit Madzin

Iris segmentation methods work based on ideal imaging conditions which produce good output results. However, the segmentation accuracy of an iris recognition system significantly influences its performance, especially with data that captured in unconstrained environment of the Smartphone. This paper proposes a novel segmentation method for unconstrained environment of the Smartphone videos based on choose the best frames from the videos and try to enhance the contrast of this frames by applying the two fuzzy logic membership functions on the negative image which delimit between dark and bright regions in able to make the dark region darker and the bright region brighter. This pre-processing step Facilitates the work of the Weighted Adaptive Hough Transform to automatically find the diameter of the iris region to apply the osiris v4.1. The proposed method results on the video of (Mobile Iris Challenge Evaluation (MICHE))-I, iris databases indicate a high level of accuracy and more efficient computationally using the proposed technique.


2012 ◽  
Vol 236-237 ◽  
pp. 1116-1121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Wang ◽  
Ning Wang ◽  
Xiao Gui Yao

Iris segmentation plays an important role in iris recognition system. Most of segmentation methods are affected by reflection spots, eyelash and eyelid etc. The goal of this work is to accurately segment the iris using Probable boundary (Pb) edge detector after horizontal-vertical weighted reflections removal. Experimental results on the challenging iris image database CASIA-Iris-Thousand with reflection spots sample demonstrate that the iris segmentation accuracy of the proposed methods outperforms state-of-the-art methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Azimi ◽  
Seyed Ahmad Rasoulinejad ◽  
Andrzej Pacut

AbstractIn this paper, we attempt to answer the questions whether iris recognition task under the influence of diabetes would be more difficult and whether the effects of diabetes and individuals’ age are uncorrelated. We hypothesized that the health condition of volunteers plays an important role in the performance of the iris recognition system. To confirm the obtained results, we reported the distribution of usable area in each subgroup to have a more comprehensive analysis of diabetes effects. There is no conducted study to investigate for which age group (young or old) the diabetes effect is more acute on the biometric results. For this purpose, we created a new database containing 1,906 samples from 509 eyes. We applied the weighted adaptive Hough ellipsopolar transform technique and contrast-adjusted Hough transform for segmentation of iris texture, along with three different encoding algorithms. To test the hypothesis related to physiological aging effect, Welches’s t-test and Kolmogorov–Smirnov test have been used to study the age-dependency of diabetes mellitus influence on the reliability of our chosen iris recognition system. Our results give some general hints related to age effect on performance of biometric systems for people with diabetes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Aumama M. Farhan ◽  
M. F. Al-Gailani

Iris recognition system is broadly being utilized as it has distinctive patterns that gives it a powerful strategy to distinguish between persons for identification purposes. However, this system in this implementation requires large memory capacity and high computation time. These factors make us in a challenge to find a way to run this algorithm in a hardware platform. The hardware implementation features reduce the execution time by exploiting the parallelism and pipeline. The present work addresses this issue when reducing execution time by implementing the matching step using hamming distance algorithm on the target device FPGA KINTEX 7 using Xilinx system generator. The obtained result demonstrates that the execution time has been accelerated to 1.32 ns, which is almost at least four times faster than existing works


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.5) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Anis Farihan Mat Raffei ◽  
Rohayanti Hassan ◽  
Shahreen Kasim ◽  
Hishamudin Asmuni ◽  
Asraful Syifaa’ Ahmad ◽  
...  

The quality of eye image data become degraded particularly when the image is taken in the non-cooperative acquisition environment such as under visible wavelength illumination. Consequently, this environmental condition may lead to noisy eye images, incorrect localization of limbic and pupillary boundaries and eventually degrade the performance of iris recognition system. Hence, this study has compared several segmentation methods to address the abovementioned issues. The results show that Circular Hough transform method is the best segmentation method with the best overall accuracy, error rate and decidability index that more tolerant to ‘noise’ such as reflection.  


Author(s):  
R. Deepika ◽  
M. R. Prasad ◽  
Srinivas Chetana ◽  
T. C. Manjunath

Personal identification from the iris images acquired under less-constrained imaging environment is highly challenging. Such environment requires the development of efficient iris segmentation approach and recognition strategy which can exploit multiple features available for the potential identification. So, along with the iris features periocular features have increasing attention in biometrics technology. For the recognition purpose iris and periocular information are collected from both the eyes of same person simultaneously. The term periocular refers to the facial region in the immediate vicinity of the eye. Acquisition of image for periocular biometric is expected to require less subject cooperation. In this chapter, a dual iris based multimodal biometric system that increases the performance and accuracy of the typical iris recognition system is proposed.


2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasharuddin Zainal ◽  
Abduljalil Radman ◽  
Mahamod Ismail ◽  
Md Jan Nordin

Iris recognition has been regarded as one of the most reliable biometric systems over the past years. Previous studies have shown that the performance of iris recognition systems highly dependent on the performance of their segmentation algorithms. Iris segmentation is the process to isolate the iris region from the surrounded structures of the eye image. However, several iris segmentation algorithms have been developed in the literature, but their segmentation and recognition accuracies drastically degrade with non-ideal iris images acquired in less constrained conditions. Thus, it is crucial to develop a new iris segmentation method to improve iris recognition using non-ideal images. Hence, the objective of this paper is an iris segmentation method on the basis of optimization to isolate the iris region from non-ideal iris images such those affected by reflections, blurred boundaries, eyelids occlusion, and gaze-deviation. Experimental results on the off axis/angle West Virginia University (WVU) iris database demonstrated the superiority of the developed method over state-of-the-art iris segmentation methods considered in this paper. The performance of an iris recognition algorithm based on the developed iris segmentation method was observed to be improved.  


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Chung Liu ◽  
Pei-Chung Chung ◽  
Chia-Ming Lyu ◽  
Jui Liu ◽  
Shyr-Shen Yu

One of the key steps in the iris recognition system is the accurate iris segmentation from its surrounding noises including pupil, sclera, eyelashes, and eyebrows of a captured eye-image. This paper presents a novel iris segmentation scheme which utilizes the orientation matching transform to outline the outer and inner iris boundaries initially. It then employs Delogne-Kåsa circle fitting (instead of the traditional Hough transform) to further eliminate the outlier points to extract a more precise iris area from an eye-image. In the extracted iris region, the proposed scheme further utilizes the differences in the intensity and positional characteristics of the iris, eyelid, and eyelashes to detect and delete these noises. The scheme is then applied on iris image database, UBIRIS.v1. The experimental results show that the presented scheme provides a more effective and efficient iris segmentation than other conventional methods.


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