• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06c
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• pp.432-435
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• 2007

본 논문은 신원확인 수단으로 부각되어 관심이 높은 홍채인식에 대한 연구이다 홍채인식 시스템의 경우 홍채영역에 따라 각 영상들의 특징 값이 차지하는 비중이 서로 다르게 분포되어 있고 눈썹이나 조명에 의한 잡음으로 인하여 인식성능에 영향을 미친다. 이 경우 기존에 등록되어 인증된 사용자의 홍채영상일지라도 제대로 인식하지 못하거나 인증에 실패할 수 있으며, 실세계에서의 홍채영역 사용이 원활하지 못하게 된다. 그러므로 단일 생체인식 시스템에서 홍채인식을 할 경우, 중요한 특징을 그대로 유지하고 인식성능을 향상시키기 위해서 획득된 홍채 영상의 정규화와 전처리 과정을 거친 다음 홍채영역을 분할한 후 각 영역에서의 보정치 적용을 통한 특징추출 방법을 제안한다. 또한 웨이블릿 변환과 주성분 분석을 이용하여 인식 성능이 개선된 특징추출 방법임을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.365-367
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 홍채의 특징을 효율적으로 추출하기 위한 새로운 접근 방법으로서, 통계적 정보를 기반으로 하는 주성분요소분석(PCA) 및 독립성분요소분석(ICA)을 홍채영상에 적용한 결과에 대하여 소개하고자 한다. 또한, 전체영상을 몇 개의 부분영상으로 분할한 후, 분할된 영상에 대하여 주성분요소분석과 독립성분요소분석을 적용함으로서, 분할된 부분영상의 특징이 전체영상에서 추출한 특징보다 효과적으로 홍채의 특징을 표현하는 결과를 보여 주었다. 이러한 방법을 홍채영상에서 효율적인 특징을 추출하기 위한 새로운 접근방법으로서 적용하였으며, 다양한 특징 집합에 대하여 적용한 결과, 홍채영상에서 redundant한 정보와 잡음을 제거함으로써 compact하고 robust한 특징을 추출할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04b
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• pp.793-795
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 웨이블릿 변환과 Direct LDA(DLDA)을 사용한 홍채 특징추출 방법을 제안한다. 이것은 획득한 홍채 영상으로부터 독특한 특징을 추출하기 위해 특별히 이차원 이산 웨이블릿 변환의 다중해상도 분해 방법을 사용하는 것이다 또한 홍채의 다양한 웨이블릿 성분으로부터 변별력을 가진 특징을 얻을 수 있도록 DLDA 기법을 적용하였다. 이러한 특징추출 방법은 이동이나 회전에 변하지 않는 알고리즘을 요구하는 홍채의 모양을 묘사하는데 적합하다. 홍채의 패턴정합을 위해서는 최근접 평균 분류기(Nearest Mean Classifier)를 사용하였다. 본 논문에서 인간의 홍채인식을 위해 제시한 방법이 홍채패턴을 표현하는 효과적인 방법이며, 시간 및 공간의 절약이라는 측면에서 유리하다는 것을 보여준다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.169-174
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• 2008

Recently, biometric systems are of interest for the reliable security system. Iris recognition technology is one of the biometric system with the highest reliability. Various iris recognition methods have been proposed for automatic personal identification and verification. These methods require accurate iris segmentation for successful processing because the iris is a small part of an acquired image. The iris boundaries have been parametrically modeled and subsequently detected by circles or parabolic arcs. Since the iris boundaries have a wide range of edge contrast and irregular border shapes, the assumption that they can be fit to circles or parabolic arcs is not always valid. In some cases, the shape of a dilated pupil is slightly different from a constricted one. This is especially true when the pupil has an irregular shape. This is why this research is important. This paper addresses how to accurately detect iris boundaries for improved iris recognition, which is robust to noises.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09b
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• pp.181-184
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• 2003

본 논문은 생체측정학(Biometrics)중 홍채의 패턴을 이용하는 것으로, 사람의 홍채는 태어날 때 한번 정해지면 평생 변화하지 않으며, 개개인별로 모양이 모두 다른 것으로 알려져 있다. 이에, 본 논문에서는 홍채영상 취득시 조명에 의한 동공의 크기 변화에 민감하지 않은 2차원의 홍채패턴을 취득하고, 2D Gabor 필터와 48개의 분할된 섹터로부터 특징값을 추출한다. 또한, 인식과정에서는 correlation 계수를 이용하여 서로 다른 홍채의 특징값에 대해 유사도를 측정하고 가장 큰 값을 갖는 사람을 찾게 되는데, 이때, 3개의 필터를 거쳐 얻어진 영상에 대해 최고의 값을 인식 대상자로 인정하므로 오인식 될 확률을 최소화 할 수 있다. 제안한 알고리듬의 유용성을 확인하기 위해 남성과 여성 대상자 10명의 왼쪽 눈에 대해 5회 촬영하여 데이터베이스 구축 후, 실험한 결과 90%이상의 높은 인식률을 얻음으로 제안한 알고리듬의 유용성을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.9
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• pp.876-884
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• 2003

It is essential to identify both the pupil and iris boundaries for iris recognition. The circular edge detector proposed by Daugman is the most common and powerful method for the iris region extraction. The method is accurate but requires lots of computational time since it is based on the exhaustive search. Some heuristic methods have been proposed to reduce the computational time, but they are not as accurate as that of Daugman. In this paper, we propose a pupil and iris boundary finding algorithm which is faster than and as accurate as that of Daugman. The proposed algorithm searches the boundaries using the Daugman's circular edge detector, but reduces the search region using the problem domain knowledge. In order to find the pupil boundary, the search region is restricted in the maximum and minimum bounding circles in which the pupil resides. The bounding circles are obtained from the binarized pupil image. Two iris boundary points are obtained from the horizontal line passing through the center of the pupil region obtained above. These initial boundary points, together with the pupil point comprise two bounding circles. The iris boundary is searched in this bounding circles. Experiments show that the proposed algorithm is faster than that of Daugman and more accurate than the conventional heuristic methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.121-130
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a feature extraction method for iris recognition using wavelet transforms. The wavelet transform is fast and has a good localization characteristic. In particular, the low frequency band can be used as an effective feature vector. In iris recognition, the noise caused by eyelid the eyebrow, glint, etc may be included in iris. The iris pattern is distorted by noises by itself, and a feature extraction algorithm based on filter such as Wavelets, Gabor transform spreads noises into whole iris region. Namely, such noises degrade the performance of iris recognition systems a major problem. This kind of noise has adverse effect on performance. In order to solve these problems, we propose to divide the iris image into a number of sub-region and apply the wavelet transform to each sub-region. Experimental results show that the performance of proposed method is comparable to existing methods using Gabor transform and region division noticeably improves recognition performance. However, it is noted that the processing time of the wavelet transform is much faster than that of the existing methods.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2017

In this paper, an USB-OTG (Uiversal Serial Bus On-the-go) interface module was designed with the iris information for personal identification. The image recognition algorithm which was searching face and iris areas, was proposed with pixel differences from eye blinking after several facial images were captured and then detected without any activities like as pressing the button of smart phone. The region of pupil and iris could be fast involved with the proper iris area segmentation from the pixel value calculation of frame difference among the images which were detected with two adjacent open-eye and close-eye pictures. This proposed iris recognition could be fast processed with the proper grid size of the eye region, and designed with the frame difference between the adjacent images from the USB-OTG interface with this camera module with the restrict of searching area in face and iris location. As a result, the detection time of iris location can be reduced, and this module can be expected with eliminating the standby time of eye-open.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.864-873
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• 2001

In this paper, a new approach to building a registration authority for issuing PKI-based certificates is presented to make the process of identifying an individual more secure and reliable by utilizing human iris recognition technology. The tasks of the proposed system associated with the manipulation of irises except for the general functions of registration authorities can be categorized into three modules, the acquisition of iris images, the registration of iris information, and the verification of users by means of iris patterns. The information among the three modules is safely exchanged through encryption and decryption with a symmetric cryptographic method. As a feature extraction method for a given iris image, a wavelet transform is applied to represent a feature vector with a small dimension of information obtained by subsampling an image corresponding to lower frequency bands successively without loss of information. Through the experiments on human iris recognition technology we proposed and applied to the registration authority, the potential of biometric technology in various applications is confirmed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.716-721
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• 2003

This paper deals with the iris recognition as one of biometric techniques which are applied to identify a person using his/her behavior or congenital characteristics. The iris of a human eye has a texture that is unique and time invariant for each individual. First, we obtain the feature vector from the 2D iris pattern having a property of size invariant and divide it into 24 sectors which are further through three types of 2D Gabor filters. At the recognition process, we compute the similarity measure based on the correlation values. Here, since we use three different matching values obtained from three different directional Gabor filters and select the maximum value among them, it is possible to minimize the recognition error rate. To show the usefulness of the proposed algorithm, we applied it to a biometric database consisting of 50 iris patterns extracted from 10 subjects and finally get more higher than 90% recognition rate.