Iris segmentation using variational level set method

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 578-588

  Roy, Kaushik ^a   Bhattacharya, Prabir ^b   Suen, Ching Y ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Iris recognition; Iris segmentation; Noise reduction; Off angle occlusion; Variational level set method

Indexed keywords

IRIS RECOGNITION; IRIS SEGMENTATION; NOISE REDUCTION; OFF-ANGLE; VARIATIONAL LEVEL SET;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; BIOMETRICS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DROP BREAKUP; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79551506572     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2010.09.011     Document Type: Article

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