TY - JOUR AU - Du, Yingzi AU - Belcher, Craig AU - Zhou, Zhi PY - 2010 DA - 2010/04/28 TI - Scale Invariant Gabor Descriptor-Based Noncooperative Iris Recognition JO - EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing SP - 936512 VL - 2010 IS - 1 AB - A new noncooperative iris recognition method is proposed. In this method, the iris features are extracted using a Gabor descriptor. The feature extraction and comparison are scale, deformation, rotation, and contrast-invariant. It works with off-angle and low-resolution iris images. The Gabor wavelet is incorporated with scale-invariant feature transformation (SIFT) for feature extraction to better extract the iris features. Both the phase and magnitude of the Gabor wavelet outputs were used in a novel way for local feature point description. Two feature region maps were designed to locally and globally register the feature points and each subregion in the map is locally adjusted to the dilation/contraction/deformation. We also developed a video-based non-cooperative iris recognition system by integrating video-based non-cooperative segmentation, segmentation evaluation, and score fusion units. The proposed method shows good performance for frontal and off-angle iris matching. Video-based recognition methods can improve non-cooperative iris recognition accuracy. SN - 1687-6180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/936512 DO - 10.1155/2010/936512 ID - Du2010 ER -