The Effects of Gender Factor and Diabetes Mellitus on the Iris Recognition System's Accuracy and Reliability

Mohammadreza Azimi (Corresponding Author), Seyed Ahmad Rasoulinejad (Corresponding Author), Andrzej Pacut

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Abstract

We present a performance analysis of iris recognition system for healthy and diabetes affected irises, separately for feMale and Male users. The database consists of 546 pictures from 162 healthy irises (62% feMale users, 38% Male users) and 772 iris images from 181 diabetic eyes with a clearly visible iris pattern (80% feMale users, 20% Male users), Adaptive weighted Hough ellipsopolar transform technique was used for iris segmentation, and then three popular iris encoding algorithms were implemented. Bhattacharyya distance was used for comparison of diabetic and healthy irises of men and women. We founf that for Male users, diabetic effects on the performance of the system are more intense that for feMale users.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication23rd Signal Processing
Subtitle of host publicationAlgorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications, SPA 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages273-278
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)978-836206536-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications - Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
Duration: 18 Sept 201920 Sept 2019
Conference number: 23
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Publication series

NameSignal Processing - Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications Conference Proceedings, SPA
Volume2019-September
ISSN (Print)2326-0262
ISSN (Electronic)2326-0319

Conference

Conference23rd Signal Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, Arrangements, and Applications
Abbreviated titleSPA 2019
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityPoznan
Period18/09/1920/09/19
Internet address

Keywords*

  • Biometrics
  • diabetes influence on iris recognition
  • gender-dependency
  • Iris Recognition
  • iris recognition reliability

Field of Science*

  • 1.6 Biological sciences
  • 3.2 Clinical medicine
  • 2.2 Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Publication Type*

  • 3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database

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