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Modeling the individuality of iris pattern and the effectiveness of inconsistent bit masking strategy

  • Beijing Institute of New Technology Application

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Abstract

Iris recognition is one of the most accurate biometric technologies. The uniqueness of iris, also known as iris individuality, has been widely accepted as one foundation for iris recognition. Although a few iris individuality mod- els have been proposed, they are either incomplete or less accurate. In this paper, we investigate the iris individual- ity problem using Daugman's iriscode method. We divide the bits in an iriscode into two groups, i.e., consistent and inconsistent bits, and provide the individuality analysis by both FAR and FRR modeling. Numeric evaluation using re- al iris data shows its usefulness in predicting the empirical performance. Furthermore, till now it is just experimentally confirmed that the recognition accuracy could be improved by masking out inconsistent bits. In order to formally e- valuate the effectiveness of this strategy, we derive the iris individuality model after masking out the inconsistent bits. Comparison of the two models has demonstrated the im- proved accuracy of the masking strategy, and the drop of EER is up to about 80%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis, ISBA 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479919741
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jun 2015
Event2015 IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis, ISBA 2015 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: 23 Mar 201525 Mar 2015

Publication series

Name2015 IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis, ISBA 2015

Conference

Conference2015 IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis, ISBA 2015
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong
Period23/03/1525/03/15

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