Segmentation-free ocular detection and recognition
Andrés Rodríguez, Jeffrey Panza, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2011
Iris recognition is a well-known technique to identify persons. However this technique requires high resolution images in order to automatically segment the iris. In some scenarios obtaining the required resolution may be difficult. In this paper, we investigate the recognition of ocular regions using correlation filters without segmenting the iris region. This method uses the whole eye region and surrounding areas, i.e., the ocular region, for identification. In our experiments we use the recently developed Quadratic Correlation Filter and show that at low resolutions segmentation-free ocular recognition can succeed while iris segmentation fails.