Solutions for Iris Segmentation

Abstract

The growing concern with security and access control to places and sensitive information has contributed for the increased utilization of biometric systems. Biometry is the name given to the techniques used to recognize people automatically through physical and behavioural characteristics of the human body such as those found on the face, fingerprint, hand geometry, iris, signature or voice. From all the biometric options, iris recognition deserves special attention as the iris contains a huge and unique richness of characteristics, which do not change over time and enables the construction of extremely reliable and accurate systems. The iris recognition process is relatively complex and involves several stages of processing as illustrated in Figure 1. The first stage corresponds to the localization of the region of the iris on the image of the eye, which also involves the extraction of the regions corrupted by the superior and inferior eyelids and eyelashes.