An Improved Iris Recognition Algorithm Based on Log-Gabor Filter and SVM[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2009, 14(12): 2603. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20091228.
Feature extraction and classification is very important in the iris recognition.The low frequency sub-image of the wavelet transform contains the primary information of the iris,and the Log-Gabor filter can effectively extract the iris texture information.The combination of these two approaches is an effective way to extract the iris texture.This paper firstly decomposes the normalized iris image by the wavelet transformation to obtain the sub-images,and then uses a Log-Gabor filter to extract the features of the low frequency sub-image and generates the iris code.Finally support vector machines (SVM) is used to classify.The experiments results show the SVM can achieve good effect on the iris classification.The recognition rate is up to 99.6% and the equal error rate is reduced to 0.3%.Compared with the hamming distance,the SVM has the better performance.