Reducing the False Rejection Rate of Iris Recognition Using Textural and Topological Features

This paper presents a novel iris recognition system using 1D log polar Gabor wavelet and Euler numbers. 1D log polar Gabor wavelet is used to extract the textural features, and Euler numbers are used to extract topological features of the iris. The proposed decision strategy uses these features to authenticate an individual-s identity while maintaining a low false rejection rate. The algorithm was tested on CASIA iris image database and found to perform better than existing approaches with an overall accuracy of 99.93%.

Authors:

• M. Vatsa
• R. Singh
• A. Noore

Keywords:

• Iris recognition
• textural features
• topological features.

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