Iris Feature Extraction Using 2D Phase Congruency

Iris feature extraction is the crucial stage of the whole iris recognition process for personal identification. A brief survey is made firstly in this paper on the methods that feasibly implemented in iris feature extraction. Because the iris capture devices in use are mostly exposed to the natural scene, so the natural illumination or other variant conditions sometimes can greatly influence the iris images captured and further impact the recognition result. Out of this consideration, we made some experimental try to extract the iris feature using the 2D phase congruency, which invariant to changes in intensity or contrast, to try to avoid those problems