Reliable Iris Localization Method With Application To Iris Recognition In Near Infrared Light

Iris recognition is accepted as one of the best biometric method. Implementing this method to the practical system requires the special preprocessing where the iris localization plays a crucial role. Iris localization consists of finding the iris boundaries as well as eyelids. In this paper a simple iris localization algorithm is proposed based on iris image segmentation with histogram analysis. Proposed solution was applied for images taken under near infrared light