Ethnicity Prediction Based on Iris Texture Features.
Stephen Lagree, Kevin W. Bowyer · 2011
This paper examines the possibility of predicting ethnicity based on iris texture. This is possible if there are similarities of the iris texture of a certain ethnicity, and these similarities differ from ethnicity to ethnicity. This sort of “soft biometric ” prediction could be used, for example, to narrow the search of an enrollment database for a match to probe sample. Using an iris image dataset representing 120 persons and 10-fold person-disjoint cross validation, we obtain 91 % correct Asian / Caucasian ethnicity classification.