Iris segmentation using geodesic active contours

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 824-836

  Shah, Samir ^a   Ross, Arun ^b  

^a LG Electronics USA Inc   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geodesic active contours (GACs); Iris recognition; Iris segmentation; Iriscodes; Level sets; Snakes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BEST FIT; BIOMETRIC TRAITS; CONIC MODEL; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; GLOBAL PROPERTIES; IRIS IMAGES; IRIS RECOGNITION; IRIS RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; IRIS SEGMENTATION; IRIS TEXTURE; ITERATIVE FASHION; LEVEL SET; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE OBJECTS; NON-IDEAL CONDITIONS; NONIDEAL; PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION PROCESS;

BIOMETRICS; GEODESY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TEXTURES;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 70450230863     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2009.2033225     Document Type: Article

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