A NEW IRIS LOCATION METHOD

Abstract

A new iris location method is presented in this paper. When locating the iris inner boundary, a method for locating the iris inner boundary based on the variation coefficient and multiple disk-structural elements is proposed. The variation coefficient of the iris image is first calculated to be used for the image gray stretch, then the mathematical morphology operations with multiple disk-structural elements are applied to tackle the binary iris image, finally the connected region in line with geometric features of the circle is picked up and its center and radius are calculated, namely for obtaining the iris inner boundary. When positioning the iris outer boundary, a method for locating the iris outer boundary based on the variation coefficient and the gradient amplitude is presented. First, the Gaussian function is employed to filter the iris image using the variation coefficient as its standard deviation, then for each pixel on a circle which is centered at each neighborhood pixel near the circle enter of the iris inner boundary and has a radius with greater than that of the inner boundary, the radial gradient amplitude and tangential gradient amplitude of are computed, finally the iris outer boundary is determined on the maximum of the tangential gradient amplitude. The experiments reveal that this proposed method is effective, and has a fairly simple implementation, a low computational load, a fast location and good accuracy.