Research Article

Optimized Periocular Template Selection for Human Recognition

Table 2

Performance comparison of some benchmark NIR iris localization approaches.

Year Authors Approach Testing database Accuracy results

2002 Camus and Wildes [3] Multiresolution coarse-to-fine strategy Constrained iris images (640 without glasses, 30 with glasses) Overall 98% (99.5% for subjects without glasses and 66.6% for subjects wearing glasses)

2004 Sung et al. [4] Bisection method, canny edge-map detector, and histogram equalization 3,176 images acquired through a CCD camera 100% inner boundary and 94.5% for collarette boundary

2004 Bonney et al. [5] Least significant bit plane and standard deviations 108 images from CASIA v1 and 104 images from UNSA Pupil detection 99.1% and limbic detection 66.5%

2005 Liu et al. [6] Modification to Masek’s segmentation algorithm 317 gallery and 4,249 probe images acquired using Iridian LG 2200 iris imaging system 97.08% rank-1 recognition

2006 Proença and Alexandre [7] Moment functions dependent on fuzzy clustering 1,214 good quality, 663 noisy images from 241 subjects in two sessions 98.02% on good data set and 97.88% on noisy data set

2008 Pundlik et al. [8] Markov random field and graph cut WVU nonideal database Pixel label error rate 5.9%

2009 He et al. [9] Adaboost-cascade iris detector for iris center prediction NIST Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) v 1.0, CASIA-Iris-V3-lamp, UBIRISv1.0 0.53% EER for ICEv1.0 and 0.75% EER for CASIA Iris-V3-lamp

2010 Liu et al. [10] -means cluster CASIAv3 and UBIRISv2.0 1.9% false positive and 21.3% false negative (on a fresh data set not used to tune the system)

2010 Tan et al. [11] Gray distribution features and gray projection CASIAv1 99.14% accuracy (processing time 0.484 s/image)

2011 Bakshi et al. [12] Image morphology and connected component analysis CASIAv3 95.76% accuracy with processing (0.396 s/image)