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Fast Iris Detection for Personal Verification Using Modular Neural Nets

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In this paper, a combination of fast and cooperative modular neural nets to enhance the performance of the detection process is introduced. I have applied such approach successfully to detect human faces in cluttered scenes [10]. Here, this technique is used to identify human irises automatically in a given image. In the detection phase, neural nets are used to test whether a window of 20×20 pixels contains an iris or not. The major difficulty in the learning process comes from the large database required for iris / non-iris images. A simple design for cooperative modular neural nets is presented to solve this problem by dividing these data into three groups. Such division results in reduction of computational complexity and thus decreasing the time and memory needed during the test of an image. Simulation results for the proposed algorithm show a good performance. Furthermore, faster iris detection is obtained through image decomposition into many sub-images and applying cross correlation in frequency domain between each sub-image and the weights of the hidden layer.

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El-Bakry, H. (2001). Fast Iris Detection for Personal Verification Using Modular Neural Nets. In: Reusch, B. (eds) Computational Intelligence. Theory and Applications. Fuzzy Days 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2206. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45493-4_31

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