Iris detection using Hough transform and separable filter
Ho-Sik Park, Cheol-Soo Bae · The Journal of the Korean Institute of Information and Communication Engineering · 2006
In this paper we propose a new algorithm to detect the irises of both eyes from a human face. Using the separability filter, the algorithm first extracts blobs(intensity valleys) as the candidates for the irises. Next, for each pair of blobs. the algorithm computes a cost usings Hough transform and separability later to measure the fit of the pair of blobs to the image. And then, the algorithm selects a pair of blobs with the smallest cost as the irises of both eyes. As the result of the experiment using 150 faces images without spectacles, the success rate of the proposed algorithm was 97.3% for the best case and 95.3% for the worst case.