• DocumentCode
    2380032
  • Title

    Iris identification and robustness evaluation of a wavelet packets based algorithm

  • Author

    Rossant, Florence ; Eslava, Manuel Torres ; Thomas, Emy Anu ; Amiel, Frédéric ; Amara, Amara

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. Superieur d´´Electronique de Paris, France
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    11-14 Sept. 2005
  • Abstract
    This paper presents an iris recognition system, based on a wavelet packet analysis using orthogonal wavelets. The identification of the different packets that carry discriminating information about the iris texture is carried out through an energy measure. Tests, conducted on a database of 149 high quality iris images show good robustness in relation to changes in illumination, blurring, optical axis deviation or local defects in the images.
  • Keywords
    biometrics (access control); image recognition; image texture; wavelet transforms; energy measure; image local defects; iris identification; iris recognition system; iris texture; optical axis deviation; orthogonal wavelets; robustness evaluation; wavelet packets based algorithm; Biomedical optical imaging; Biometrics; Histograms; Iris recognition; Lighting; Robustness; Testing; Wavelet analysis; Wavelet packets; Wavelet transforms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Image Processing, 2005. ICIP 2005. IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9134-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIP.2005.1530377
  • Filename
    1530377