Pupil dilation degrades iris biometric performance

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 150-157

  Hollingsworth, Karen ^a   Bowyer, Kevin W ^a   Flynn, Patrick J ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Iris biometrics; Pupil dilation

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; CODES (SYMBOLS); FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

CONFIDENCE MEASURES; CURRENT SYSTEMS; IRIS BIOMETRICS; IRIS CODES; POLAR COORDINATE SYSTEMS; PUPIL DILATION; PUPIL DILATIONS; RECOGNITION IMAGES; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCES; WORK STUDIES;

HAMMING DISTANCE;

EID: 56449102465     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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