Probing the uniqueness and randomness of iriscodes: Results from 200 billion iris pair comparisons

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1927-1934

  Daugman, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Demodulation; Face recognition; Gabor wavelets; Iris recognition; Large scale search; Personal identification; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEMODULATION; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

GABOR WAVELETS; IRIS RECOGNITION; LARGE-SCALE SEARCH; PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 33947411404     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.884092     Document Type: Article

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