• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.87-94
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• 2008

Iris diagnosis is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health. However, because most of previous studies only find a sign pattern in a gray iris image, they are not enough to be used for a iris diagnosis system. In this paper, we developed an iris diagnosis system based on a color image processing and iris medical information stored in database. The system includes four modules : input module with an iris camera, iris signs extraction module, medical database, output module with printing. Based on a color image processing approach, this paper presents the extraction algorithms of 7 major iris signs and correction manually for improving the accuracy of analysis. We can use the iridology and patient's health DB in the stage of signs analysis. Compared with the existing system, the developed system can be applied to an iris diagnosis system since it provides various additional functions.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.1125-1137
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• 2011

Recently, there have been previous research about the iris recognition in mobile device to increase portability, whose accuracy is affected by the quality of iris image. Iris image is affected by illumination environment during the image acquisition. The existing system has high accuracy in indoor environment. However the accuracy is degraded in outdoor environment, because the gray levels of iris patterns in image are changed, and ghost and eyelash shading regions are produced by the sunlight of various wavelengths into iris region. To overcome these problems, we propose new mobile iris camera system which uses the near-infrared (NIR) light illuminator of 850 nm and band pass filter (BPF) of 850 nm. To measure the performance of the proposed system, we compared it to the existing one with the iris images captured in indoor and outdoor sunlight environments in terms of the equal error rates (EER) based on false acceptance rate (FAR) and false rejection rate (FRR). The experimental result showed that the proposed system had the lower EERs than those of previous system by 0.96% (with frontal light in indoors), 4.94% (with frontal light in outdoor), 9.24% (with side light in outdoor), and 7% (with back light in outdoor), respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.705-708
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• 2018

Among biometrics commercialized for security, iris recognition technology has the most excellent security for the probability of the match between individuals is the lowest. Current commercialized iris recognition technology has excellent recognition ability, but this technology has a fatal drawback. Without the user's active cooperation, it cannot recognize the iris correctly. To make up for this weakness, recent trend of iris recognition development mounts a non-volunteering, unconstrained method. According to this information, the objective of this research is developing a module that can identify people iris from a video acquired by high performance infrared camera in a range of 3m and in a involuntary way. For this, we import images from the video and find people's face and eye positions from the images using Haar classifier trained through Cascade training method. finally, we crop the iris by Hough circle transform and compare it with data from the database to identify people.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07d
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• pp.2717-2719
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• 2000

사용자의 의도를 파악하는 여러 가지 행동양식 중에서 우리가 관심을 두고 있는 시스템은 사람의 눈 움직임 검출을 이용한 시스템이다. 사람의 눈 움직임에 대한 검출과 추적이 가능하다면 그 적용 분야는 매우 광범위하다. 예를 들면, 일반인들의 컴퓨터 조작을 더 편리하게 할 수도 있고 손을 사용할 수 없는 장애인들의 의사소통이나 정보교환의 한 방법으로 사용될 수 있다. 또한 사람들이 대부분의 정보를 시각적인 면으로 획득한다는 것을 감안할 때 원격 작업의 모니터링과 같은 여러 산업부분이나 군사부분과 같은 분야에 적용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 눈의 특징점들을 검출하고 추적하기 위해서 홍채 모델을 설정하고 그 모델이 카메라를 통해 받아들여지는 입력 영상과 일치시키는 과정으로, 카메라의 입력 영상에서 3가지의 기본 영상을 추출하고 모델의 매칭 정도를 판단할 수 있는 매칭 함수를 규정하고 그 함수들을 통하여 홍채 모델을 일치시키는 알고리즘을 제안하고 그 타당성을 보이고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1169-1172
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• 2010

대부분의 홍채인식 시스템의 전반부를 살펴보면 카메라를 통한 이미지를 획득 후 전처리 과정에서 동공의 경계를 잡는 과정이 수행된다. 카메라를 통한 이미지 획득 시 초점이 좋은 이미지와 나쁜 이미지가 같이 획득이 된다. 초점이 나쁜 이미지는 동공의 경계를 잡는 과정에 있어서 좋은 이미지보다 시간이 오래 걸리기 마련이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 영상획득 후 동공의 경계를 잡는 과정 전에 DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform)를 이용한 선명도 측정하는 방법을 제안한다. 카메라를 통한 영상을 획득한 후 초점이 좋은 영상과 나쁜 영상을 구분하게 되고 초점이 좋은 영상만을 선택하여 다음 과정인 동공의 경계를 잡는 작업을 수행하게 된다. 제안하는 방법은 DCT를 이용한 이미지의 선별 작업에 시간이 소비 되지만 나쁜 영상을 이용하여 동공의 경계를 잡느라 걸리는 시간을 줄일 수 있는 장점을 기대할 수 있다. 우선적으로 수학적 분석을 통하여 23%의 속도 절감을 통한 성능 개선의 가능성을 보였고, 실제 구현을 통하여 속도 향상이 기대된다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.48-60
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• 2007

In previous researches for iris feature extraction, they transform a original iris image into rectangular one by stretching and interpolation, which causes the distortion of iris patterns. Consequently, it reduce iris recognition accuracy. So we are propose the method that extracts iris feature by using polar coordinates without distortion of iris patterns. Our proposed method has three strengths compared with previous researches. First, we extract iris feature directly from polar coordinate circular iris image. Though it requires a little more processing time, there is no degradation of accuracy for iris recognition and we compares the recognition performance of polar coordinate to rectangular type using by Hamming Distance, Cosine Distance and Euclidean Distance. Second, in general, the center position of pupil is different from that of iris due to camera angle, head position and gaze direction of user. So, we propose the method of iris feature detection based on polar coordinate circular iris region, which uses pupil and iris position and radius at the same time. Third, we overcome override point from iris patterns by using polar coordinates circular method. each overlapped point would be extracted from the same position of iris region. To overcome such problem, we modify Gabor filter's size and frequency on first track in order to consider low frequency iris patterns caused by overlapped points. Experimental results showed that EER is 0.29%, d' is 5,9 and EER is 0.16%, d' is 6,4 in case of using conventional rectangular image and proposed method, respectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.70-76
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed a personal identification algorithm using the iris region which has discriminant features. First, we acquired the eye image with the black and white CCD camera and extracted the iris region by using a circular edge detector which minimizes the search space for real center and radius of the iris. And then, we localized the iris region into several circles and extracted the features by filtering signals on the perimeters of circles with one dimensional Gabor filter We identified a person by comparing ,correlation values of input signals with the registered signals. We also decided threshold value minimizing average error rate for FRR(Type I)error rate and FAR(Type II)error rate. Experimental results show that proposed algorithm has average error rate less than 5.2%.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.313-318
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a difference in the incidence of the black circle border of iris(skin disease) according to the iris constitution. Iris was taken for 100 adults living in Seoul. Iris was photographed using the iris camera DV-2H, a blue focus development product. Statistical significance was tested by correlation analysis, and the occurrence of black circle border of iris was low negative correlation(p<0.01). As mentioned above, we know that the occurrence of black circle border of iris differs according to the iris constitution, and by using it actively, it will help health promotion about skin. There is a need to study the changes of iris in the cause of skin disease by using a blood test to analyze the cause of the skin disease in the future.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.2 s.308
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• pp.19-29
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• 2006

As the security of personal information is becoming more important in mobile phones, we are starting to apply iris recognition technology to these devices. In conventional iris recognition, magnified iris images are required. For that, it has been necessary to use large magnified zoom & focus lens camera to capture images, but due to the requirement about low size and cost of mobile phones, the zoom & focus lens are difficult to be used. However, with rapid developments and multimedia convergence trends in mobile phones, more and more companies have built mega-pixel cameras into their mobile phones. These devices make it possible to capture a magnified iris image without zoom & focus lens. Although facial images are captured far away from the user using a mega-pixel camera, the captured iris region possesses sufficient pixel information for iris recognition. However, in this case, the eye region should be detected for accurate iris recognition in facial images. So, we propose a new fast iris detection method, which is appropriate for mobile phones based on corneal specular reflection. To detect specular reflection robustly, we propose the theoretical background of estimating the size and brightness of specular reflection based on eye, camera and illuminator models. In addition, we use the successive On/Off scheme of the illuminator to detect the optical/motion blurring and sunlight effect on input image. Experimental results show that total processing time(detecting iris region) is on average 65ms on a Samsung SCH-S2300 (with 150MHz ARM 9 CPU) mobile phone. The rate of correct iris detection is 99% (about indoor images) and 98.5% (about outdoor images).

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.80.2-81
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• 2001