Iris recognition with image segmentation employing retrained off-the-shelf deep neural networks

D Kerrigan, M Trokielewicz, A Czajka… - … on Biometrics (ICB), 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper offers three new, open-source, deep learning-based iris segmentation methods,
and the methodology how to use irregular segmentation masks in a conventional Gabor …

PixISegNet: pixel‐level iris segmentation network using convolutional encoder–decoder with stacked hourglass bottleneck

RR Jha, G Jaswal, D Gupta, S Saini, A Nigam - IET biometrics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we present a new iris ROI segmentation algorithm using a deep convolutional
neural network (NN) to achieve the state‐of‐the‐art segmentation performance on well …

Deep learning-based feature extraction in iris recognition: Use existing models, fine-tune or train from scratch?

A Boyd, A Czajka, K Bowyer - 2019 IEEE 10th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern deep learning techniques can be employed to generate effective feature extractors
for the task of iris recognition. The question arises: should we train such structures from …

Influence of segmentation on deep iris recognition performance

J Lozej, D Štepec, V Štruc… - 2019 7th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the rise of deep learning in numerous areas of computer vision and image
processing, iris recognition has not benefited considerably from these trends so far. Most of …

Toward more accurate iris recognition using dilated residual features

K Wang, A Kumar - IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Iris recognition has emerged as the more accurate, convenient, and low-cost biometric
approach to authenticate human subjects. However, the accuracy offered by current popular …

Deepiris: Iris recognition using a deep learning approach

S Minaee, A Abdolrashidi - arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09380, 2019 - arxiv.org
Iris recognition has been an active research area during last few decades, because of its
wide applications in security, from airports to homeland security border control. Different …

Iris recognition with off-the-shelf CNN features: A deep learning perspective

K Nguyen, C Fookes, A Ross, S Sridharan - Ieee Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Iris recognition refers to the automated process of recognizing individuals based on their iris
patterns. The seemingly stochastic nature of the iris stroma makes it a distinctive cue for …

Thirdeye: Triplet based iris recognition without normalization

S Ahmad, B Fuller - 2019 IEEE 10th International Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most iris recognition pipelines involve three stages: segmenting into iris/non-iris pixels,
normalization the iris region to a fixed area, and extracting relevant features for comparison …

End-to-end iris segmentation using u-net

J Lozej, B Meden, V Struc, P Peer - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Iris segmentation is an important research topic that received significant attention from the
research community over the years. Traditional iris segmentation techniques have typically …

Iris segmentation using fully convolutional encoder–decoder networks

E Jalilian, A Uhl - Deep learning for biometrics, 2017 - Springer
As a considerable breakthrough in artificial intelligence, deep learning has gained great
success in resolving key computer vision challenges. Accurate segmentation of the iris …