Ocular biometrics: A survey of modalities and fusion approaches

I Nigam, M Vatsa, R Singh - Information Fusion, 2015 - Elsevier
Biometrics, an integral component of Identity Science, is widely used in several large-scale-
county-wide projects to provide a meaningful way of recognizing individuals. Among existing …

A survey on fingerprint minutiae-based local matching for verification and identification: Taxonomy and experimental evaluation

D Peralta, M Galar, I Triguero, D Paternain, S García… - Information …, 2015 - Elsevier
Fingerprint recognition has found a reliable application for verification or identification of
people in biometrics. Globally, fingerprints can be viewed as valuable traits due to several …

An accurate iris segmentation framework under relaxed imaging constraints using total variation model

Z Zhao, K Ajay - … of the IEEE international conference on …, 2015 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper proposes a novel and more accurate iris segmentation framework to
automatically segment iris region from the face images acquired with relaxed imaging under …

Unsupervised detection of non-iris occlusions

M Haindl, M Krupička - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a fast precise unsupervised iris defects detection method based on the
underlying multispectral spatial probabilistic iris textural model and adaptive thresholding …

Segmenting iris images in the visible spectrum with applications in mobile biometrics

RR Jillela, A Ross - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
The widespread use of mobile devices with Internet connectivity has resulted in the storage
and transmission of sensitive data. This has heightened the need to perform reliable user …

Near‐infrared and visible‐light periocular recognition with Gabor features using frequency‐adaptive automatic eye detection

F Alonso‐Fernandez, J Bigun - IET Biometrics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Periocular recognition has gained attention recently due to demands of increased
robustness of face or iris in less controlled scenarios. We present a new system for eye …

BIRD: Watershed based iris detection for mobile devices

AF Abate, M Frucci, C Galdi, D Riccio - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Communications with a central iris database system using common wireless technologies,
such as tablets and smartphones, and iris acquisition out of the field are important …

Comparison and fusion of multiple iris and periocular matchers using near-infrared and visible images

F Alonso-Fernandez, A Mikaelyan… - … Workshop on Biometrics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Periocular refers to the facial region in the eye vicinity. It can be easily obtained with existing
face and iris setups, and it appears in iris images, so its fusion with the iris texture has a …

Efficient enhancement and matching for iris recognition using SURF

AI Ismail, HS Ali, FA Farag - 2015 5th national symposium on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Iris recognition is gaining more attention and the development of the field is increasing
rapidly. This paper presents a complete iris recognition system. The iris features are …

A survey on multimodal biometrics and the protection of their templates

CA Toli, B Preneel - Privacy and Identity Management for the Future …, 2015 - Springer
In order to guarantee better user-friendliness and higher accuracy, beyond the existing
traditional single-factor biometric systems, the multimodal ones appear to be more …