Iris recognition: On the segmentation of degraded images acquired in the visible wavelength

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1502-1516

  Proença, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Covert recognition.; Iris segmentation; Noncooperative image acquisition; Visible light iris images

Indexed keywords

COVERT RECOGNITION.; IRIS IMAGES; IRIS SEGMENTATION; VISIBLE LIGHT; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRIS IMAGES;

BIOMETRICS; IMAGE ACQUISITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IRIS; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SCLERA; SPECTACLES;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRIS; SCLERA; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 77953810940     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.140     Document Type: Article

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