Iris Recognition Method for Non Ideal Images

Abstract

Abstract The issue of counterfeiting is one of the most pressing threats to people’s security because of the many complex security problems. Many systems used in the field of verification and identification but the basic criterion for choosing is the degree of safety identification. Identification and verification systems use biometric characteristics of individuals. The system of iris recognition is one of the most important biometric recognition systems. The system used iris images for 100 persons belonging to the UBIRIS V1 database. Each person has 5 captures; the total number is 500 images. A hybrid iris segmentation method combined two algorithms ChanVese (CV) and grabcut to obtain high verification rate and to detect the outer boundary and localize the iris region. The system includes several steps starting with acquiring the image of the iris, enhancing the image quality, segment iris region, determining the coordinates of iris center and radius of the pupil, convert the iris coordinates of the cutting segments from Cartesian coordinates to the polar coordinates to reduce the processing time and to avoid the noise image problems due to eyelids and eyelashes, then utilize Gabor wavelets to extract the features of iris, and finally perform the matching process using Euclidian distance. The performance indicators, which include the recognition rate, false rejection rate(FRR), False Acceptance Rate(FAR), Correct identification rate(CIR), are as follows(97.5%, 39%, 0.025%, 0.0975). The proposed system has many advantages includes high processing capability of low-quality images and low storage capacity.