Image averaging for improved iris recognition

Abstract

We take advantage of the temporal continuity in an iris video to improve matching performance using signal-level fusion. From multiple frames of an iris video, we create a single average image. Our signal-level fusion method performs better than methods based on single still images, and better than previously published multi-gallery score- fusion methods. We compare our signal fusion method with another new method: a multi-gallery, multi-probe score fusion method. Between these two new methods, the multi-gallery, multi-probe score fusion has slightly better recognition performance, while the signal fusion has significant advantages in memory and computation requirements. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.