Improved iris recognition through fusion of hamming distance and fragile bit distance

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2465-2476

  Hollingsworth, Karen P ^a   Bowyer, Kevin W ^a   Flynn, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

fragile bits; Iris biometrics; score fusion

Indexed keywords

BIT PATTERNS; FRAGILE BITS; IRIS BIOMETRICS; IRIS CODE; IRIS RECOGNITION; SCORE FUSION;

BIOMETRICS; IMAGE MATCHING;

HAMMING DISTANCE;

EID: 80054958857     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.89     Document Type: Article

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