Estimating and fusing quality factors for iris biometric images

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 509-524

  Kalka, Nathan D ^a   Zuo, Jinyu ^a   Schmid, Natalia A ^a   Cukic, Bojan ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief function; Dempster Shafer (DS) theory; Iris image quality; Iris recognition; Quality metrics

Indexed keywords

BELIEF FUNCTION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; IRIS IMAGES; IRIS RECOGNITION; QUALITY METRICS;

BIOMETRICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHTING; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77951206751     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2041658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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