A Novel Iris Recognition System Based on Active Contour

Image segmentation is a method which is widely used in image processing application, and it is one of the most difficult steps of the process. This matter becomes more significant when we try to use the algorithms presented in complicated systems, such as the biometric systems. Different methods of iris segmentation have been presented so far. In this article, a new algorithm has been proposed for iris segmentation. We tried to use the greedy snake algorithm for the iris segmentation process. The proposed algorithm was tested on the CASIA Iris Image Database 1.0 and the obtained results showed that the proposed method has an acceptable accuracy.

Keywords:

iris recognition , biometric , active contour , segmentation , snake