This paper delivers a new database of iris images collected in visible light using a mobile phone's camera and presents results of experiments involving existing commercial and open-source iris recognition methods, namely: Iri-Core, VeriEye, MIRLIN and OSIRIS. Several important observations are made. First, we manage to show that after simple preprocessing, such images offer good visibility of iris texture even in heavily-pigmented irides. Second, for all four methods, the enrollment stage is not much affected by the fact that different type of data is used as input. This translates to zero or close-to-zero Failure To Enroll, i.e., cases when templates could not be extracted from the samples. Third, we achieved good matching accuracy, with correct genuine match rate exceeding 94.5 for all four methods, while simultaneously being able to maintain zero false match rate in every case. Correct genuine match rate of over 99.5 was achieved using one of the commercial methods, showing that such images can be used with the existing biometric solutions with minimum additional effort required. Finally, the experiments revealed that incorrect image segmentation is the most prevalent cause of recognition accuracy decrease. To our best knowledge, this is the first database of iris images captured using a mobile device, in which image quality exceeds this of a near-infrared illuminated iris images, as defined in ISO IEC 19794-6 and 29794-6 documents. This database will be publicly available to all researchers.
@cite_18: Summary This article presents the new biometric electro-optical measuring method supported by PC for identification of a person by its eye iris image recognition. The aim of this approach is to show the ability of mutual information to such recognition. Couples of the comparative human iris images were geometrically aligned by maximization of their mutual information and subsequently recognized. The mutual information was estimated using the efficient algorithm proposed by G. A. Darbellay and I. Vajda. The decision whether two compared iris images belong to the same eye depends on the chosen threshold of the mutual information. Only a simple preprocessing of the iris images is needed to acquire their characteristic geometric parameters before the recognition is performed. The investigations carried out showed the correct (successful) personal identification better than 99 .
@cite_2: The iris is regarded as one of the most useful traits for biometric recognition and the dissemination of nationwide iris-based recognition systems is imminent. However, currently deployed systems rely on heavy imaging constraints to capture near infrared images with enough quality. Also, all of the publicly available iris image databases contain data correspondent to such imaging constraints and therefore are exclusively suitable to evaluate methods thought to operate on these type of environments. The main purpose of this paper is to announce the availability of the UBIRIS.v2 database, a multisession iris images database which singularly contains data captured in the visible wavelength, at-a-distance (between four and eight meters) and on on-the-move. This database is freely available for researchers concerned about visible wavelength iris recognition and will be useful in accessing the feasibility and specifying the constraints of this type of biometric recognition.
@cite_3: A new dataset of iris images acquired by mobile devices can support researchers.MICHE-I will assist with developing continuous authentication to counter spoofing.The dataset includes images from different mobile devices, sessions and conditions. We introduce and describe here MICHE-I, a new iris biometric dataset captured under uncontrolled settings using mobile devices. The key features of the MICHE-I dataset are a wide and diverse population of subjects, the use of different mobile devices for iris acquisition, realistic simulation of the acquisition process (including noise), several data capture sessions separated in time, and image annotation using metadata. The aim of MICHE-I dataset is to make up the starting core of a wider dataset that we plan to collect, with the further aim to address interoperability, both in the sense of matching samples acquired with different devices and of assessing the robustness of algorithms to the use of devices with different characteristics. We discuss throughout the merits of MICHE-I with regard to biometric dimensions of interest including uncontrolled settings, demographics, interoperability, and real-world applications. We also consider the potential for MICHE-I to assist with developing continuous authentication aimed to counter adversarial spoofing and impersonation, when the bar for uncontrolled settings raises even higher for proper and effective defensive measures.
@cite_17: This paper presents a new iris database that contains images with noise. This is in contrast with the existing databases, that are noise free. UBIRIS is a tool for the development of robust iris recognition algorithms for biometric proposes. We present a detailed description of the many characteristics of UBIRIS and a comparison of several image segmentation approaches used in the current iris segmentation methods where it is evident their small tolerance to noisy images.
First publicly available databases to present iris images obtained in visible light were the UPOL @cite_18 , UBIRISv1 @cite_17 and UBIRISv2 @cite_2 datasets. The first one contains images collected with an ophthalmology device, the second - scaled down photographs taken with Nikon E5700 handheld camera (resampling was introduced to simulated poor quality of unconstrained imaging), and the third - images captured and , also in visible light. Recently, a dataset of iris images and iris image printouts ( fake' iris images) obtained using various mobile devices has been released @cite_3 , however, these are also images taken without built-in flash illumination.