• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.135-142
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• 2020

In this paper, we describe the iris localization method in RGB images. Most of the iris localization methods are developed for infrared images, thus an iris localization method in RGB images is required for various applications. The proposed method consists of four stages: i) detection of the candidate irises using circular Hough transform (CHT) from an input image, ii) detection of a pupil center based on deep learning, iii) determine the iris using the pupil center, and iv) correction of the iris region. The candidate irises are detected in the order of the number of intersections of the center point candidates after generating the Hough space, and the iris in the candidates is determined based on the detected pupil center. Also, the error due to distortion of the iris shape is corrected by finding a new boundary point based on the detected iris center. In experiments, the proposed method has an improved accuracy about 27.4% compared to the CHT method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.600-602
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• 2001

본 논문은 웨이블릿 필터를 이용하여 홍채영상의 에지를 검출하고 패턴매칭 기법을 적용하여 홍채의 결함조직에 대한 위치를 추정하는 연구이다. 필터는 웨이블릿 변환을 이용한 2차원 주파수 영역의 고역통과 필터를 사용하여 홍채영상의 에지를 검출하고, 이를 표준진단패턴과 오버랩 매칭으로 결함조직을 검출한다. 실험결과 처리속도가 기존의 에지검출기법에 비해 처리속도향상과 에지검출영상의 PSNR 증가에 따라 오버랩 패턴매칭기법에 의한 인식률에서 92%로 홍채결함조직을 자동 진단시스템에 응용 가능하다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.267-270
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• 2001

홍채인식 시스템에서 입력된 영상으로부터 정합(matching)에 사용될 홍채 영역을 추출해 내는 과정은 필수적인 과정으로 빠른 처리 속도와 정확성을 요구한다. 기존의 원형검출기나 허프(Hough) 변환을 이용한 방법 등은 홍채의 바깥쪽과 안쪽 경계를 비교적 정확하게 검출해내는 장점이 있으나 탐색영역이 커서 수행시 간이 매우 많이 걸리는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이진화와 형태학적 연산(morphology)을 이용하는 새로운 탐색 영역 단축 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 기존의 홍채영역 검출 방법에 적용할 경우 수행 시간을 효율적으로 단축시킬 수 있다. 검출된 영역에 대해서 주성분 분석법(principal component analysis, PCA)을 이용해 매칭을 수행한 결과 약 95%의 인식율을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.309-312
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• 2003

기존 홍채 인식 시스템의 접안식 영상 획득상 불편한 사항을 해결하고 인식의 정확도를 높이기 위해서는 원격으로 영상을 획득할 수 있어야 하며, 홍채의 경계선을 정확하게 검출할 수 있어야 한다. 또한 기존 홍채 영역 검출 방법의 문제점인 홍채를 원으로 가정하는 방식을 개선할 필요성이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 조명에 의한 glint 정보와 intensity gradient를 이용하여 홍채의 경계를 산출하였으며, 아울러 스테레오스코픽 카메라를 이용하여 홍채 경계의 3차원 좌표를 획득함으로써, 카메라를 기준으로 하는 홍채의 주시각을 찾아 홍채의 원형 변환에 활용하도록 하였다.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.653-655
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• 2001

본 논문은 홍채영상에 대한 에지를 검출하고 홍채진단을 위한 에지영상패턴 매칭을 이용하여 홍채의 진단영역을 인식하는 연구이다. 에지검출기법은 8방향 키어쉬-라프라시언 기법을 적용하고 진단영역인식은 진단기준패턴과 입력에지영상패턴과 오버레이 패턴매칭으로 진단영역을 인식하였다. 그 결과 적용한 에지검출영상의 PSNR이 131정도이며 패턴매칭 영역인식결과는 86%정도로 홍채에 의한 인체의 상태를 추정하는 자동진단시스템으로 환용 가능성을 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.87-94
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• 2008

Iris diagnosis is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health. However, because most of previous studies only find a sign pattern in a gray iris image, they are not enough to be used for a iris diagnosis system. In this paper, we developed an iris diagnosis system based on a color image processing and iris medical information stored in database. The system includes four modules : input module with an iris camera, iris signs extraction module, medical database, output module with printing. Based on a color image processing approach, this paper presents the extraction algorithms of 7 major iris signs and correction manually for improving the accuracy of analysis. We can use the iridology and patient's health DB in the stage of signs analysis. Compared with the existing system, the developed system can be applied to an iris diagnosis system since it provides various additional functions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.505-508
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• 2006

홍채인식 시스템은 홍채영역 검출, 홍채특징 코드 생성, 그리고 홍채코드 비교 판단의 과정으로 이루어져 있다. 기존의 논문이나 연구들의 대부분은 앞에서 나열한 홍채인식 시스템의 과정의 일부만을 수정하여 성능개선, 즉 인식속도 향상과 인식률 향상 등을 꾀하였다. 이에 반해, 본 논문에서는 홍채인식 과정 전체의 개선을 통하여, 획기적으로 홍채인식 시간을 단축시키는 홍채인식 방법을 제안 하였다. Hough Transform과 Vertical & Horizontal Histogram을 사용한 홍채영역 검출, gradient를 사용한 홍채코드 생성, 그리고 variance를 이용하는 홍채코드의 비교와 판단 과정을 빠르고 단순한 알고리즘으로 구성하여, 홍채인식 속도를 개선하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 홍채인식 시스템의 성능을 실험한 결과, mobile 환경에서 실시간으로 사용 할 수 있는 속도와 기존 홍채인식 시스템과 비슷한 홍채인식률을 나타내었다.

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.48-60
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• 2007

In previous researches for iris feature extraction, they transform a original iris image into rectangular one by stretching and interpolation, which causes the distortion of iris patterns. Consequently, it reduce iris recognition accuracy. So we are propose the method that extracts iris feature by using polar coordinates without distortion of iris patterns. Our proposed method has three strengths compared with previous researches. First, we extract iris feature directly from polar coordinate circular iris image. Though it requires a little more processing time, there is no degradation of accuracy for iris recognition and we compares the recognition performance of polar coordinate to rectangular type using by Hamming Distance, Cosine Distance and Euclidean Distance. Second, in general, the center position of pupil is different from that of iris due to camera angle, head position and gaze direction of user. So, we propose the method of iris feature detection based on polar coordinate circular iris region, which uses pupil and iris position and radius at the same time. Third, we overcome override point from iris patterns by using polar coordinates circular method. each overlapped point would be extracted from the same position of iris region. To overcome such problem, we modify Gabor filter's size and frequency on first track in order to consider low frequency iris patterns caused by overlapped points. Experimental results showed that EER is 0.29%, d' is 5,9 and EER is 0.16%, d' is 6,4 in case of using conventional rectangular image and proposed method, respectively.