Noisy iris segmentation with boundary regularization and reflections removal

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 270-277

  Donida Labati, Ruggero ^a   Scotti, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boundary Regularization; Iris segmentation; Outliers removal; Reflections identification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; REFLECTION;

BOUNDARY POINTS; BOUNDARY REGULARIZATION; EYE IMAGES; INNOVATIVE ALGORITHMS; INPUT IMAGE; IRIS ACQUISITION; IRIS PATTERNS; IRIS SEGMENTATION; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; NOISY IMAGE; ORIGINAL IMAGES; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 70449637389     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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