Hybrid method based on topography for robust detection of iris center and eye corners

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Villanueva, Arantxa ^a   Ponz, Victoria ^a   Sesma Sanchez, Laura ^a   Ariz, Mikel ^a   Porta, Sonia ^a   Cabeza, Rafael ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corner detection; Eye tracking; Iris detection; Topography

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; TOPOGRAPHY;

AVERAGE BEHAVIOR; CORNER DETECTION; EYE-TRACKING; IRIS DETECTION; MULTIRESOLUTION; POST-PROCESSING STAGES; ROBUST DETECTION; VALLEY DETECTIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84896913563     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2501643.2501647     Document Type: Article

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