An Investigation of Quality Aspects of Noisy Colour Images for Iris Recognition
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چکیده
The UBIRIS.v2 dataset is a set of noisy colour iris images designed to simulate visible wavelength iris acquisition at-a-distance and on-the-move. This paper presents an examination of some of the characteristics that can impact the performance of iris recognition in the UBIRIS.v2 dataset. This dataset consists of iris images in the visible wavelength and was designed to be noisy. The quality and characteristics of these images are surveyed by examining seven different channels of information extracted from them: red, green, blue, intensity, value, lightness, and luminance. We present new quality metrics to assess the image characteristics with regard to focus, entropy, reflections, pupil constriction and pupillary boundary contrast. The results clearly suggest the existence of different characteristics for these channels and could be exploited for use in the design and evaluation of iris recognition systems.
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