• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.10
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• pp.429-440
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• 2014

The iris recognition is a biometrics technology to extract and code an unique iris feature from human eye image. Also, it includes the technology to compare with other's various iris stored in the system. On the other hand, eyelashes in iris image are a external factor to affect to recognition rate of iris. If eyelashes are not removed exactly from iris area, there are two false recognitions that recognize eyelashes to iris features or iris features to eyelashes. Eventually, these false recognitions bring out a lot of loss in iris informations. In this paper, in order to solve that problems, we removed eyelashes by gabor filter that using for analysis of frequency feature and improve preservation rate of iris informations. By novel method to extract various features on iris area using angle, frequency, and gaussian parameter on gabor filter that is one of the filters for analysing frequency feature for an image, we could remove accurately eyelashes with various lengths and shapes. As the result, proposed method represents that improve about 4% than previous methods using GMM or histogram analysis in iris preservation rate.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.233-238
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• 2005

With iris recognition algorithm, unique iris code can be generated and user can be identified by using iris pattern. However, if unnecessary information such as eyelash is included in iris region, the error for iris recognition is increased, consequently. In detail, if iris region is used to generate ins code not excluding eyelash and the position of eyelash is moved, the iris codes are also changed and the error rate is increased. To overcome such problem, we propose the method of detecting eyelash by using mask and excluding the detected eyelash region in case of generating iris code. Experimental results show that EER(Equal Error Rate) for iris recognition using the proposed algorithm is lessened as much as $0.18\%$ compared to that not using it.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.119-122
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• 2006

홍채인식 시스템의 성능은 입력된 눈 영상으로부터 정확한 홍채 영역의 검출 및 효율적인 홍채코드의 생성 등의 영향을 받으나, 이를 위해서는 입력된 눈 영상에서 홍채 패턴이 선명해야 한다는 선행 조건이 존재한다. 초점이 맞지 않아 흐리게 나온 영상 눈을 감은 영상, 속눈썹에 의해 홍채영역이 가려진 영상, 움직임에 의해 블러링된 영상, 또는 홍채가 아닌 속눈썹 등의 다른 부분에 초점이 맞춰진 영상 등에서는 선명한 홍채 패턴을 얻을 수 없으므로 전체 인식 성능을 떨어뜨리는 요인이 된다. 그러므로 이러한 영상들을 자동으로 걸러내 제거해주는 눈 영상 화질 측정 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 눈 영상의 초점이 잘 맞는지 측정하는 방법을 제안하고 자체적으로 획득한 데이터베이스를 이용해 이를 테스트하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.94-104
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• 2007

Iris recognition is biometric technology which uses a unique iris pattern of user in order to identify person. In the captured iris image by conventional iris recognition camera, it is often the case with eyelid occlusion, which covers iris information. The eyelids are unnecessary information that causes bad recognition performance, so this paper proposes robust algorithm in order to detect eyelid. This research has following three advantages compared to previous works. First, we remove the detected eyelash and specular reflection by linear interpolation method because they act as noise factors when locating eyelid. Second, we detect the candidate points of eyelid by using mask in limited eyelid searching area, which is determined by searching the cross position of eyelid and the outer boundary of iris. And our proposed algorithm detects eyelid by using parabolic hough transform based on the detected candidate points. Third, there have been many researches to detect eyelid, but they did not consider the rotation of eyelid in an iris image. Whereas, we consider the rotation factor in parabolic hough transform to overcome such problem. We tested our algorithm with CASIA Database. As the experimental results, the detection accuracy were 90.82% and 96.47% in case of detecting upper and lower eyelid, respectively.