Efficient Iris Identification with Improved Segmentation Techniques

In this chapter, the authors propose and implement an improved iris recognition method based on image enhancement and heuristics. They make major improvements in the iris segmentation phase. In particular, the authors implement the raised to power operation for more accurate detection of the pupil region. Additionally, with their technique they are able to considerably reduce the candidate limbic boundary search space; this leads to a significant increase in the accuracy and speed of the segmentation. Furthermore, the authors selectively detect the limbic circle having center within close range of the pupil center. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated on a grand challenge, large scale database: the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) dataset. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-429-1.ch009