Experiments on improving lossless compression of biometric iris sample data

Author

Stögner, Herbert ; Weinhandel, Georg ; Uhl, Andreas

Author_Institution

Sch. of Commun. Eng. for IT, Carinthian Univ. of Appl. Sci., Klagenfurt, Austria

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The impact of using different lossless compression algorithms when compressing biometric iris sample data from several public iris databases is investigated. In particular, we relate the application of dedicated lossless image codecs like JPEG-LS, CALIC, and PNG, lossless variants of lossy codecs like JPEG2000 and JPEG XR, and two general purpose compression schemes to rectilinear iris sample imagery from seven public databases. The application of additional prediction as a preprocessing strategy as well as a conversion to a set of binary images to enable JBIG application is evaluated. The results are discussed in the light of the recent ISO/IEC FDIS 19794-6 and ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 standards and IREX recommendations.

Keywords

biometrics (access control); codecs; data compression; image coding; iris recognition; visual databases; CALIC; IREX recommendations; ISO-IEC FDIS 19794-6; JPEG-LS; JPEG2000; PNG; biometric iris; lossless compression; lossless compression algorithms; lossless image codecs; public iris databases; Databases; Gray-scale; IEC standards; ISO standards; Image coding; Iris recognition; Transform coding; biometrics; iris recognition; lossless image compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), 2011 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sarajevo

ISSN

2157-8672

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0074-3

Type

conf

Filename

5977363