Title :
Fuzzy logic based selera recognition
Author :
Das, Aruneema ; Pal, Umapada ; Ferrer Ballester, Miguel Angel ; Blumenstein, Michael
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Integrated & Intell. Syst., Griffith Univ., Griffith, QLD, Australia
Abstract :
In this paper a sclera recognition and validation system is proposed. Here sclera segmentation was performed by Fuzzy logic-based clustering. Since the selera vessels are not prominent, image enhancement was required. A Fuzzy logic-based Brightness Preserving Dynamic Fuzzy Histogram Equalization and discrete Meyer wavelet was used to enhance the vessel patterns. For feature extraction, the Dense Local Binary Pattern (D-LBP) was used. D-LBP patch descriptors of each training image are used to form a bag of features, which is used to produce the training model. Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are used for classification. The UBIRIS version 1 dataset is used here for experimentation. An encouraging Equal Error Rate (EER) of 4.31% was achieved in our experiments.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biometrics (access control); blood vessels; discrete wavelet transforms; equalisers; feature extraction; fuzzy logic; fuzzy set theory; image classification; image enhancement; image segmentation; iris recognition; support vector machines; D-LBP patch descriptors; EER; SVMs; bag of features; dense local binary pattern; discrete Meyer wavelet; equal error rate; feature extraction; fuzzy logic based sclera recognition; fuzzy logic-based brightness preserving dynamic fuzzy histogram equalization; fuzzy logic-based clustering; image classification; image enhancement; sclera segmentation; sclera validation system; sclera vessel pattern enhancement; support vector machines; training image; Feature extraction; Histograms; Image segmentation; Iris recognition; Level set; Training; Bag of features; Biometrics; D-LBP; SVM; Selera vessels Patterns;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2073-0
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2014.6891684