Efficient and robust segmentation of noisy iris images for non-cooperative iris recognition

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 223-230

  Tan, Tieniu ^a   He, Zhaofeng ^a   Sun, Zhenan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Coarse iris localization; Eyelid and eyelash detection; Iris segmentation; Non cooperative iris recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

GLOBAL CONVERGENCE; INTEGRO DIFFERENTIAL OPERATOR; IRIS IMAGES; IRIS LOCALIZATION; IRIS RECOGNITION; IRIS SEGMENTATION; NON-COOPERATIVE; PREDICTION MODEL; ROBUST SEGMENTATION;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 70449635329     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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