Iris recognition with support vector machines

Abstract

We propose an iris recognition system for the identification of persons using support vector machines. Canny's edge detection and the Hough transform are used to find the iris/pupil boundary and a simple thresholding method is employed for eyelash detection. The Gabor wavelet technique is deployed in order to extract the deterministic features in the transformed iris of a person in the form of template. The extracted iris features are fed into a support vector machine (SVM) for classification. Our results indicate that the performance of SVM as a classifier is far better than the performance of a classifier based on the artificial neural network. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.