Accurate Iris Recognition at a Distance Using Stabilized Iris Encoding and Zernike Moments Phase Features

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3962-3974

  Tan, Chun Wei ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Databases; Image coding; Imaging; Iris recognition; Lighting; Noise; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE RECOGNITION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHTING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

HIGHLY-CORRELATED; IRIS RECOGNITION; IRIS RECOGNITION AT A DISTANCES; LOCAL CONSISTENCY; MATCHING ALGORITHM; NOISE; NONLINEAR APPROACH; OVERLAPPING REGIONS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84923065863     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2014.2337714     Document Type: Article

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