Technology Roadmap for Smart Iris Recognition

Iris recognition has many desirable properties for reliable individual authentication but usability is its largest bottleneck to wide deployment. Thus smart interface and machine intelligent are the objective of next-generation iris recognition. This paper presents the technology roadmap for smart iris recognition (SIR). Firstly, the concept of SIR is introduced, including its definition, characteristics and performance target. Then the evolution process of iris acquisition and recognition algorithm is proposed respectively. With various strategies of human-machine interaction, iris acquisition systems are grouped into seven categories, i.e. Close-range IR, Active IR, IR at a distance, Active IR at a distance, Passive IR on move, Active IR on move, IR for Surveillance. Iris recognition algorithms advance to be more accurate, robust, efficient and secure. The achievements of state-of-the-art iris recognition methods especially the contributions of our research group are reviewed in the roadmap.