Investigating useful and distinguishing features around the eyelash region

• Published in: 2008 37th IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Yung-hui Li, Savvides, M., Tsuhan Chen
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2008
• Subjects: ASM; Biometrics; Data mining; ethnic classification; eyelash analysis; Eyelashes; Eyelids; Face recognition; Feature extraction; Image processing; Information analysis; Iris recognition; Linear discriminant analysis; soft biometrics

Traditionally, iris recognition is always about analyzing and extracting features from iris texture. We proposed to investigate regions around eyelashes and extract useful information which helps us to perform ethnic classification. We propose an algorithm which is easy to implement and effective. F...