TY - GEN
T1 - Combining left and right irises for personal authentication
AU - Wu, Xiangqian
AU - Wang, Kuanquan
AU - Zhang, Dapeng
AU - Qi, Ning
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - Traditional personal authentication methods have many instinctive defects. Biometrics is an effective technology to overcome these defects. Among the available biometric approaches, iris recognition is one of the most accurate techniques. Combining the left and the right irises of same persons can improve the authentication accuracy and reduce the spoof attack risks. Furthermore, the fusion need not add any other hardware to the existing iris recognition systems. This paper investigates the feasibility of fusing both irises for personal authentication and the performance of some very simple fusion strategies. The experimental results show that the difference between the left and the right irises of the same persons is close to the difference between the irises captured from different persons. And combining the information of both irises can dramatically improve the authentication accuracy even when the quality of the iris images are not good enough. The results also show that the Minimum and the Product strategies can obtain the perfect performance, i.e. both FARs and FRRs of these two strategies can be reduce to 0%.
AB - Traditional personal authentication methods have many instinctive defects. Biometrics is an effective technology to overcome these defects. Among the available biometric approaches, iris recognition is one of the most accurate techniques. Combining the left and the right irises of same persons can improve the authentication accuracy and reduce the spoof attack risks. Furthermore, the fusion need not add any other hardware to the existing iris recognition systems. This paper investigates the feasibility of fusing both irises for personal authentication and the performance of some very simple fusion strategies. The experimental results show that the difference between the left and the right irises of the same persons is close to the difference between the irises captured from different persons. And combining the information of both irises can dramatically improve the authentication accuracy even when the quality of the iris images are not good enough. The results also show that the Minimum and the Product strategies can obtain the perfect performance, i.e. both FARs and FRRs of these two strategies can be reduce to 0%.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38149138062&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 9783540741954
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 145
EP - 152
BT - Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - 6th International Conference, EMMCVPR, 2007 Proceedings
T2 - 6th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR 2007
Y2 - 27 August 2007 through 29 August 2007
ER -