• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.35-40
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a technique to reconstruct the iris image from the iris code by analyzing the process of generating the iris code and calculating it inversely. Iris recognition is an authentication method for authenticating an individual's identity by using iris information of an eye having unique information of an individual. The iris recognition extracts the features of the iris from the iris image, creates the iris code, and determines whether to authenticate using the corresponding code. The iris recognition method using the iris code is a method proposed by Daugman for the first time and is widely used as a representative method of iris recognition technology currently used commercially. In this paper, we restore the iris image with only the iris code, and test whether the reconstructed image and the original image can be recognized, and analyze restoration vulnerability of Daugman's iris code.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.117-137
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• 2010

Iris recognition is a biometric technique which uses unique iris patterns between the pupil and sclera. The advantage of iris recognition lies in high recognition accuracy; however, for good performance, it requires the diameter of the iris to be greater than 200 pixels in an input image. So, a conventional iris system uses a camera with a costly and bulky zoom lens. To overcome this problem, we propose a new method to restore a low resolution iris image into a high resolution image using a single image. This study has three novelties compared to previous works: (i) To obtain a high resolution iris image, we only use a single iris image. This can solve the problems of conventional restoration methods with multiple images, which need considerable processing time for image capturing and registration. (ii) By using bilinear interpolation and a constrained least squares (CLS) filter based on the degradation model, we obtain a high resolution iris image with high recognition performance at fast speed. (iii) We select the optimized parameters of the CLS filter and degradation model according to the zoom factor of the image in terms of recognition accuracy. Experimental results showed that the accuracy of iris recognition was enhanced using the proposed method.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.399-401
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• 2007

With a growing emphasis on human identification, iris recognition has recently received increasing attention. Iris recognition includes eye imaging, iris segmentation, verification, and so on. In this letter, we propose a novel and efficient iris recognition method which employs a cumulative-sum-based grey change analysis. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can be used for human identification in efficient manner.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2003년도 ISIS 2003
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• pp.42-45
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• 2003

This paper describes a new iris recognition method using shift-invariant subbands. First an iris image is preprocessed to compensate the variation of the iris image. Then, the preprocessed iris image is decomposed into multiple subbands using a shift invariant wavelet transform. The best subband among them, which have rich information for various iris pattern and robust to noises, is selected for iris recognition. The quantized pixels of the best subband yield the feature representation. Experimentally, we show that the proposed method produced superb performance in iris recognition.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.178-186
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• 2003

Recently, many researchers have been interested in biometric systems such as fingerprint, handwriting, key-stroke patterns and human iris. From the viewpoint of reliability and robustness, iris recognition is the most attractive biometric system. Moreover, the iris recognition system is a comfortable biometric system, since the video image of an eye can be taken at a distance. In this paper, we discuss human iris recognition, which is based on accurate iris localization, robust feature extraction, and Neural Network classification. The iris region is accurately localized in the eye image using a multiresolution active snake model. For the feature representation, the localized iris image is decomposed using wavelet transform based on dyadic Haar wavelet. Experimental results show the usefulness of wavelet transform in comparison to conventional Gabor transform. In addition, we present a new method for setting initial weight vectors in competitive learning. The proposed initialization method yields better accuracy than the conventional method.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1904-1926
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• 2016

Iris recognition for biometric personnel identification has gained much interest owing to the increasing concern with security today. The image quality plays a major role in the performance of iris recognition systems. When capturing an iris image under uncontrolled conditions and dealing with non-cooperative people, the chance of getting non-ideal images is very high owing to poor focus, off-angle, noise, motion blur, occlusion of eyelashes and eyelids, and wearing glasses. In order to improve the accuracy of iris recognition while dealing with non-ideal iris images, we propose a novel algorithm that improves the quality of degraded iris images. First, the iris image is localized properly to obtain accurate iris boundary detection, and then the iris image is normalized to obtain a fixed size. Second, the valid region (iris region) is extracted from the segmented iris image to obtain only the iris region. Third, to get a well-distributed texture image, bilinear interpolation is used on the segmented valid iris gray image. Using contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) enhances the low contrast of the resulting interpolated image. The results of CLAHE are further improved by stretching the maximum and minimum values to 0-255 by using histogram-stretching technique. The gray texture information is extracted by 1D Gabor filters while the Hamming distance technique is chosen as a metric for recognition. The NICE-II training dataset taken from UBRIS.v2 was used for the experiment. Results of the proposed method outperformed other methods in terms of equal error rate (EER).

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.30-39
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• 2006

홍채 인식은 흥채 근육의 무의 패턴을 이용하여 동일인 여부를 판별하는 연구 분야이다. 이러한 홍채 인식에서 홍채 영상의 품질은 홍채 인식의 성능에 많은 영향을 준다. 이는 흥채 영상이 흐려지면, 홍채 패턴이 변형되어지므로, FRR(False Rejection Error)이 증가되기 때문이다. 홍채 영상을 흐려지게 만드는 주된 요인 가운데 하나가 카메라 렌즈의 초점(focus)이다. 기존의 흥채 인식 카메라는 고정 초점(fixed focusing) 방식과 가변 초점(auto-focusing) 방식이 있다. 고정 초점 방식은 초점 렌즈가 고정되어 있기 때문에 사용자가 직접 자신의 눈을 DOF(Depth of Field) 영역 안에 위치시켜야하고, DOF 영역이 매우 작은 한계가 있다. 가변 초점 방식은 사용자와 카메라 사이의 거리를 측정하여 초점이 잘 맞는 위치로 초점렌즈를 움직여서 선명한 영상을 취득한다. 하지만 부가적인 하드웨어 장비가 필요하기 때문에 카메라의 부피가 늘어나고 비용도 증가되므로 개인 인증을 위해 홍채인식을 하는 핸드폰과 같은 모바일 장비에서 사용되는데 어려움이 따른다. 따라서 본 논문은 이러한 기존의 홍채인식 카메라의 문제점들을 극복하기 위해 부가적인 하드웨어 장비 없이 고정 초점 방식 카메라에서 취득한 홍채 영상을 복원함으로써 소프트웨어적으로 DOF영역을 증가시키는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 영상 복원 알고리즘은 반복적(iterative) 방법에 의해 최상의 복원 계수(parameter)를 검출하여 영상을 복원하였으나, 본 논문은 초점값을 이용하여 영상의 흐려짐의 정도를 판단하고, 흐려짐의 정도에 따라 미리 정의한 복원 계수를 선택함으로써 빠른 시간 안에 홍채 영상을 복원하는 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과, Panasonic에서 만든 BM-ET100 카메라의 작동범위(Operation Range)를 48-53cm에서 46-56cm로 증가시킬 수 있었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.425-434
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• 2011

The success of iris recognition depends mainly on two factors: image acquisition and an iris recognition algorithm. In this study, we present a system that considers both factors and focuses on the latter. The proposed algorithm aims to find out the most efficient wavelet family and its coefficients for encoding the iris template of the experiment samples. The algorithm implemented in software performs segmentation, normalization, feature encoding, data storage, and matching. By using the Haar and Biorthogonal wavelet families at various levels feature encoding is performed by decomposing the normalized iris image. The vertical coefficient is encoded into the iris template and is stored in the database. The performance of the system is evaluated by using the number of degrees of freedom, False Reject Rate (FRR), False Accept Rate (FAR), and Equal Error Rate (EER) and the metrics show that the proposed algorithm can be employed for an iris recognition system.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.898-905
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• 2005

홍채 인식은 동공의 확대, 축소 역할을 하는 홍채 근육의 무의 패턴을 이용하여 동일인 여부를 판별하는 연구 분야이다. 이러한 홍채 인식은 기존의 생체 인식(얼굴, 지문, 정맥 및 음석 인식 등)방법들에 비해 정확도가 상대적으로 높은 것으로 알려져 있으므로, 최근 고 수준의 정보 보안이 요구되는 분야에서 널리 사용되고 있다. 그런데 홍채 영역 내에 눈꺼풀,눈썹과 같은 다른 불필요한 정보가 포함되어 홍채 영역을 가리게 된다면 홍채 인식에서 오류가 발생할 확률도 증가하게 된다. 즉, 홍채 영역을 덮고 있는 눈꺼풀 및 눈썹을 홍채 패턴으로 취급하여 인식에 그대로 사용할 경우, 눈꺼풀과 눈썹의 위치가 변경되게 되면 그에 따라 홍채 코드 역시 바뀌게 되어 인식 오류도 증가하게 될 것이다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 이 논문에서는 피라미드 탐색 기반 포물선 가변 템플릿을 이용하여 눈꺼풀을 추출하였으며, 또한 눈썹 마스크를 이용하여 고속으로 눈썹 영역을 추출하였다. 실험 결과 본 논문에서 제안하는 눈꺼풀 및 눈썹 추출 알고리즘을 사용하지 않았을 때의 인식성능(EER)보다 제안하는 알고리즘을 사용했을 때의 인식 성능이 $0.3\%$ 향상되는 결과를 얻었다.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 학술발표 논문집 제14권 제2호
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• pp.553-559
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• 2004

In todays security industry, personal identification is also based on biometric. Biometric identification is performed basing on the measurement and comparison of physiological and behavioral characteristics, Biometric for recognition includes voice dynamics, signature dynamics, hand geometry, fingerprint, iris, etc. Iris can serve as a kind of living passport or living password. Iris recognition system is the one of the most reliable biometrics recognition system. This is applied to client/server system such as the electronic commerce and electronic banking from stand-alone system or networks, ATMs, etc. A new algorithm using nonlinear function in recognition process is proposed in this paper. An algorithm is proposed to determine the localized iris from the iris image received from iris input camera in client. For the first step, the algorithm determines the center of pupil. For the second step, the algorithm determines the outer boundary of the iris and the pupillary boundary. The localized iris area is transform into polar coordinates. After performing three times Wavelet transformation, normalization was done using sigmoid function. The converting binary process performs normalized value of pixel from 0 to 255 to be binary value, and then the converting binary process is compare pairs of two adjacent pixels. The binary code of the iris is transmitted to the by server. the network. In the server, the comparing process compares the binary value of presented iris to the reference value in the University database. Process of recognition or rejection is dependent on the value of Hamming Distance. After matching the binary value of presented iris with the database stored in the server, the result is transmitted to the client.