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Iris detection using Hough transform and separable filter  

Park, Ho-Sik (관동대학교)
Bae, Cheol-Soo (관동대학교)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.10, no.3, 2006 , pp. 526-534 More about this Journal
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Face recognition; Iris detection; Facial features; Template matching; Hough transform;
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