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A Benchmark for Iris Location and a Deep Learning Detector Evaluation
The iris is considered as the biometric trait with the highest unique
probability. The iris location is an important task for biometrics systems,
affecting directly the results obtained in specific applications such as iris
recognition, spoofing and contact lenses detection, among others. This work
defines the iris location problem as the delimitation of the smallest squared
window that encompasses the iris region. In order to build a benchmark for iris
location we annotate (iris squared bounding boxes) four databases from
different biometric applications and make them publicly available to the
community. Besides these 4 annotated databases, we include 2 others from the
literature. We perform experiments on these six databases, five obtained with
near infra-red sensors and one with visible light sensor. We compare the
classical and outstanding Daugman iris location approach with two window based
detectors: 1) a sliding window detector based on features from Histogram of
Oriented Gradients (HOG) and a linear Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifier;
2) a deep learning based detector fine-tuned from YOLO object detector.
Experimental results showed that the deep learning based detector outperforms
the other ones in terms of accuracy and runtime (GPUs version) and should be
chosen whenever possible.Comment: Accepted for presentation at the International Joint Conference on
Neural Networks (IJCNN) 201
On Generative Adversarial Network Based Synthetic Iris Presentation Attack And Its Detection
Human iris is considered a reliable and accurate modality for biometric recognition due to its unique texture information. Reliability and accuracy of iris biometric modality have prompted its large-scale deployment for critical applications such as border control and national identification projects. The extensive growth of iris recognition systems has raised apprehensions about the susceptibility of these systems to various presentation attacks.
In this thesis, a novel iris presentation attack using deep learning based synthetically generated iris images is presented. Utilizing the generative capability of deep convolutional generative adversarial networks and iris quality metrics, a new framework, named as iDCGAN is proposed for creating realistic appearing synthetic iris images. In-depth analysis is performed using quality score distributions of real and synthetically generated iris images to understand the effectiveness of the proposed approach. We also demonstrate that synthetically generated iris images can be used to attack existing iris recognition systems.
As synthetically generated iris images can be effectively deployed in iris presentation attacks, it is important to develop accurate iris presentation attack detection algorithms which can distinguish such synthetic iris images from real iris images. For this purpose, a novel structural and textural feature-based iris presentation attack detection framework (DESIST) is proposed. The key emphasis of DESIST is on developing a unified framework for detecting a medley of iris presentation attacks, including synthetic iris. Experimental evaluations showcase the efficacy of the proposed DESIST framework in detecting synthetic iris presentation attacks
Contact lens classification by using segmented lens boundary features
Recent studies have shown that the wearing of soft lens may lead to performance degradation with the increase of false reject rate. However, detecting the presence of soft lens is a non-trivial task as its texture that almost indiscernible. In this work, we proposed a classification method to identify the existence of soft lens in iris image. Our proposed method starts with segmenting the lens boundary on top of the sclera region. Then, the segmented boundary is used as features and extracted by local descriptors. These features are then trained and classified using Support Vector Machines. This method was tested on Notre Dame Cosmetic Contact Lens 2013 database. Experiment showed that the proposed method performed better than state of the art methods
Iris Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet-Iris) -- The 2020 Edition
Launched in 2013, LivDet-Iris is an international competition series open to
academia and industry with the aim to assess and report advances in iris
Presentation Attack Detection (PAD). This paper presents results from the
fourth competition of the series: LivDet-Iris 2020. This year's competition
introduced several novel elements: (a) incorporated new types of attacks
(samples displayed on a screen, cadaver eyes and prosthetic eyes), (b)
initiated LivDet-Iris as an on-going effort, with a testing protocol available
now to everyone via the Biometrics Evaluation and Testing
(BEAT)(https://www.idiap.ch/software/beat/) open-source platform to facilitate
reproducibility and benchmarking of new algorithms continuously, and (c)
performance comparison of the submitted entries with three baseline methods
(offered by the University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University), and
three open-source iris PAD methods available in the public domain. The best
performing entry to the competition reported a weighted average APCER of
59.10\% and a BPCER of 0.46\% over all five attack types. This paper serves as
the latest evaluation of iris PAD on a large spectrum of presentation attack
instruments.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, Accepted for presentation at
International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2020
Demographic Bias in Presentation Attack Detection of Iris Recognition Systems
With the widespread use of biometric systems, the demographic bias problem
raises more attention. Although many studies addressed bias issues in biometric
verification, there are no works that analyze the bias in presentation attack
detection (PAD) decisions. Hence, we investigate and analyze the demographic
bias in iris PAD algorithms in this paper. To enable a clear discussion, we
adapt the notions of differential performance and differential outcome to the
PAD problem. We study the bias in iris PAD using three baselines (hand-crafted,
transfer-learning, and training from scratch) using the NDCLD-2013 database.
The experimental results point out that female users will be significantly less
protected by the PAD, in comparison to males.Comment: accepted for publication at EUSIPCO202
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