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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Segmentation of irises acquired in degraded conditions / Segmentation d’iris acquis en conditions dégradées

Lefevre, Thierry 30 January 2013 (has links)
Les performances des systèmes de reconnaissances basés sur l'iris sont très négativement affectées par les relâchements des contraintes lors de l'acquisition des images (sujet mobile ou faiblement coopératif, image acquise loin du capteur…). L’objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une amélioration des algorithmes de segmentation traditionnels afin de pouvoir travailler dans de telles conditions. Nous avons identifié et traité quarte modules qui permettent de limiter l'impact des dégradations des images sur les performances du système de reconnaissance global : • Une localisation précise et robuste de la pupille dans l'image l'œil. Pour cela, nous avons développé une méthode qui supprime les cils et les sourcils de l'image pour faciliter la détection de la pupille. • Une segmentation précise de la texture de l'iris dans l'image. Nous avons étudié plusieurs méthodes de la littérature des Contours Actifs et comparé l'impact de ces méthodes sur les performances de reconnaissances du système complet. • Une estimation précise et robuste des contours anatomique de l'iris indépendamment des occlusions dans l'image. Pour cela, nous avons dérivé les équations des Contours Actifs explicitement pour des cercles et des ellipses. Nous avons par ailleurs proposé une méthodologie efficace pour rendre la détection moins sensible aux minimas locaux. • Une méthode de détection des erreurs de segmentation. Il est en effet important de pouvoir avertir le système de reconnaissance global qu'une erreur s’est produite. Pour cela nous avons développé plusieurs critères d'évaluation de la qualité de segmentation. Nous avons ensuite fusionnés ces mesures en utilisant un algorithme de type <<Support Vector Regression>> (SVR) pour former une mesure de qualité globale évaluant la qualité de la segmentation / This thesis is focused on the development of robust segmentation algorithms for iris recognition systems working in degraded acquisition conditions. In controlled acquisition scenarios, iris segmentation is well handled by simple segmentation schemes, which modeled the iris borders by circles and assumed that the iris can only be occluded by eyelids. However, such simple models tend to fail when the iris is strongly occluded or off-angle, or when the iris borders are not sharp enough. In this thesis, we propose a complete segmentation system working efficiently despite the above-mentioned degradations of the input data. After a study of the recent state of the art in iris recognition, we identified four key issues that an iris segmentation system should handle when being confronted to images of poor quality, leading this way to four key modules for the complete system: • The system should be able locate the pupil in the image in order to initialize more complex algorithms. To address this problem, we propose an original and effective way to first segment dark elements in the image that can lead to mistakes of the pupil localization process. This rough segmentation detects high frequency areas of the image and then the system uses the pupil homogeneity as a criterion to identify the pupil area among other dark regions of the image. • Accurate segmentation of the iris texture in the eye image is a core task of iris segmentation systems. We propose to segment the iris texture by Active Contours because they meet both the requirement in robustness and accuracy required to perform segmentation on large databases of degraded images. We studied several Active Contours that varies in speed, robustness, accuracy and in the features they use to model the iris region. We make a comparative evaluation of the algorithms’ influence on the system performance. • A complete segmentation system must also accurately estimate the iris shape in occluded regions, in order to format the iris texture for recognition. We propose a robust and accurate scheme based on a variational formulation to fit an elliptic model on the iris borders. We explicitly derive evolution equations for ellipses using the Active Contours formalism. We also propose an effective way to limit the sensitivity of this process to initial conditions. This part of our work is currently under review for final acceptance in the international journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). • Finally, we address the main issue of automatic detection of segmentation failures of the system. Few works in the literature address measuring the quality of a segmentation algorithm, critical task for an operational system. We propose in this thesis a set of novel quality measures for segmentation and show a correlation between each of them with the intrinsic recognition performance of the segmented images. We perform fusion of the individual quality measures via a Support Vector Regression (SVR) algorithm, in order to propose a more robust global segmentation quality score
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Algorithms to Process and Measure Biometric Information Content in Low Quality Face and Iris Images

Youmaran, Richard 02 February 2011 (has links)
Biometric systems allow identification of human persons based on physiological or behavioral characteristics, such as voice, handprint, iris or facial characteristics. The use of face and iris recognition as a way to authenticate user’s identities has been a topic of research for years. Present iris recognition systems require that subjects stand close (<2m) to the imaging camera and look for a period of about three seconds until the data are captured. This cooperative behavior is required in order to capture quality images for accurate recognition. This will eventually restrict the amount of practical applications where iris recognition can be applied, especially in an uncontrolled environment where subjects are not expected to cooperate such as criminals and terrorists, for example. For this reason, this thesis develops a collection of methods to deal with low quality face and iris images and that can be applied for face and iris recognition in a non-cooperative environment. This thesis makes the following main contributions: I. For eye and face tracking in low quality images, a new robust method is developed. The proposed system consists of three parts: face localization, eye detection and eye tracking. This is accomplished using traditional image-based passive techniques such as shape information of the eye and active based methods which exploit the spectral properties of the pupil under IR illumination. The developed method is also tested on underexposed images where the subject shows large head movements. II. For iris recognition, a new technique is developed for accurate iris segmentation in low quality images where a major portion of the iris is occluded. Most existing methods perform generally quite well but tend to overestimate the occluded regions, and thus lose iris information that could be used for identification. This information loss is potentially important in the covert surveillance applications we consider in this thesis. Once the iris region is properly segmented using the developed method, the biometric feature information is calculated for the iris region using the relative entropy technique. Iris biometric feature information is calculated using two different feature decomposition algorithms based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). III. For face recognition, a new approach is developed to measure biometric feature information and the changes in biometric sample quality resulting from image degradations. A definition of biometric feature information is introduced and an algorithm to measure it proposed, based on a set of population and individual biometric features, as measured by a biometric algorithm under test. Examples of its application were shown for two different face recognition algorithms based on PCA (Eigenface) and Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD) feature decompositions.
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Algorithms to Process and Measure Biometric Information Content in Low Quality Face and Iris Images

Youmaran, Richard 02 February 2011 (has links)
Biometric systems allow identification of human persons based on physiological or behavioral characteristics, such as voice, handprint, iris or facial characteristics. The use of face and iris recognition as a way to authenticate user’s identities has been a topic of research for years. Present iris recognition systems require that subjects stand close (<2m) to the imaging camera and look for a period of about three seconds until the data are captured. This cooperative behavior is required in order to capture quality images for accurate recognition. This will eventually restrict the amount of practical applications where iris recognition can be applied, especially in an uncontrolled environment where subjects are not expected to cooperate such as criminals and terrorists, for example. For this reason, this thesis develops a collection of methods to deal with low quality face and iris images and that can be applied for face and iris recognition in a non-cooperative environment. This thesis makes the following main contributions: I. For eye and face tracking in low quality images, a new robust method is developed. The proposed system consists of three parts: face localization, eye detection and eye tracking. This is accomplished using traditional image-based passive techniques such as shape information of the eye and active based methods which exploit the spectral properties of the pupil under IR illumination. The developed method is also tested on underexposed images where the subject shows large head movements. II. For iris recognition, a new technique is developed for accurate iris segmentation in low quality images where a major portion of the iris is occluded. Most existing methods perform generally quite well but tend to overestimate the occluded regions, and thus lose iris information that could be used for identification. This information loss is potentially important in the covert surveillance applications we consider in this thesis. Once the iris region is properly segmented using the developed method, the biometric feature information is calculated for the iris region using the relative entropy technique. Iris biometric feature information is calculated using two different feature decomposition algorithms based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). III. For face recognition, a new approach is developed to measure biometric feature information and the changes in biometric sample quality resulting from image degradations. A definition of biometric feature information is introduced and an algorithm to measure it proposed, based on a set of population and individual biometric features, as measured by a biometric algorithm under test. Examples of its application were shown for two different face recognition algorithms based on PCA (Eigenface) and Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD) feature decompositions.
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Algorithms to Process and Measure Biometric Information Content in Low Quality Face and Iris Images

Youmaran, Richard 02 February 2011 (has links)
Biometric systems allow identification of human persons based on physiological or behavioral characteristics, such as voice, handprint, iris or facial characteristics. The use of face and iris recognition as a way to authenticate user’s identities has been a topic of research for years. Present iris recognition systems require that subjects stand close (<2m) to the imaging camera and look for a period of about three seconds until the data are captured. This cooperative behavior is required in order to capture quality images for accurate recognition. This will eventually restrict the amount of practical applications where iris recognition can be applied, especially in an uncontrolled environment where subjects are not expected to cooperate such as criminals and terrorists, for example. For this reason, this thesis develops a collection of methods to deal with low quality face and iris images and that can be applied for face and iris recognition in a non-cooperative environment. This thesis makes the following main contributions: I. For eye and face tracking in low quality images, a new robust method is developed. The proposed system consists of three parts: face localization, eye detection and eye tracking. This is accomplished using traditional image-based passive techniques such as shape information of the eye and active based methods which exploit the spectral properties of the pupil under IR illumination. The developed method is also tested on underexposed images where the subject shows large head movements. II. For iris recognition, a new technique is developed for accurate iris segmentation in low quality images where a major portion of the iris is occluded. Most existing methods perform generally quite well but tend to overestimate the occluded regions, and thus lose iris information that could be used for identification. This information loss is potentially important in the covert surveillance applications we consider in this thesis. Once the iris region is properly segmented using the developed method, the biometric feature information is calculated for the iris region using the relative entropy technique. Iris biometric feature information is calculated using two different feature decomposition algorithms based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). III. For face recognition, a new approach is developed to measure biometric feature information and the changes in biometric sample quality resulting from image degradations. A definition of biometric feature information is introduced and an algorithm to measure it proposed, based on a set of population and individual biometric features, as measured by a biometric algorithm under test. Examples of its application were shown for two different face recognition algorithms based on PCA (Eigenface) and Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD) feature decompositions.
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Investigating and developing a model for iris changes under varied lighting conditions

Phang, Shiau Shing January 2007 (has links)
Biometric identification systems have several distinct advantages over other authentication technologies, such as passwords, in reliably recognising individuals. Iris based recognition is one such biometric recognition system. Unlike other biometrics such as fingerprints or face images, the distinct aspect of the iris comes from its randomly distributed features. The patterns of these randomly distributed features on the iris have been proved to be fixed in a person's lifetime, and are stable over time for healthy eyes except for the distortions caused by the constriction and dilation of the pupil. The distortion of the iris pattern caused by pupillary activity, which is mainly due changes in ambient lighting conditions, can be significant. One important question that arises from this is: How closely do two different iris images of the same person, taken at different times using different cameras, in different environments, and under different lighting conditions, agree with each other? It is also problematic for iris recognition systems to correctly identify a person when his/her pupil size is very different from the person's iris images, used at the time of constructing the system's data-base. To date, researchers in the field of iris recognition have made attempts to address this problem, with varying degrees of success. However, there is still a need to conduct in-depth investigations into this matter in order to arrive at more reliable solutions. It is therefore necessary to study the behaviour of iris surface deformation caused by the change of lighting conditions. In this thesis, a study of the physiological behaviour of pupil size variation under different normal indoor lighting conditions (100 lux ~ 1,200 lux) and brightness levels is presented. The thesis also presents the results of applying Elastic Graph Matching (EGM) tracking techniques to study the mechanisms of iris surface deformation. A study of the pupil size variation under different normal indoor lighting conditions was conducted. The study showed that the behaviour of the pupil size can be significantly different from one person to another under the same lighting conditions. There was no evidence from this study to show that the exact pupil sizes of an individual can be determined at a given illumination level. However, the range of pupil sizes can be estimated for a range of specific lighting conditions. The range of average pupil sizes under normal indoor lighting found was between 3 mm and 4 mm. One of the advantages of using EGM for iris surface deformation tracking is that it incorporates the benefit of the use of Gabor wavelets to encode the iris features for tracking. The tracking results showed that the radial stretch of the iris surface is nonlinear. However, the amount of extension of iris surface at any point on the iris during the stretch is approximately linear. The analyses of the tracking results also showed that the behaviour of iris surface deformation is different from one person to another. This implies that a generalised iris surface deformation model cannot be established for personal identification. However, a deformation model can be established for every individual based on their analysis result, which can be useful for personal verification using the iris. Therefore, analysis of the tracking results of each individual was used to model iris surface deformations for that individual. The model was able to estimate the movement of a point on the iris surface at a particular pupil size. This makes it possible to estimate and construct the 2D deformed iris image of a desired pupil size from a given iris image of another different pupil size. The estimated deformed iris images were compared with their actual images for similarity, using an intensitybased (zero mean normalised cross-correlation). The result shows that 86% of the comparisons have over 65% similarity between the estimated and actual iris image. Preliminary tests of the estimated deformed iris images using an open-source iris recognition algorithm have showed an improved personal verification performance. The studies presented in this thesis were conducted using a very small sample of iris images and therefore should not be generalised, before further investigations are conducted.
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Reconhecimento de pessoas por meio da região interna da íris /

Rogéri, Jonathan Gustavo. January 2011 (has links)
Orientador: Aledir Silveira Pereira / Banca: Aparecido Nilceu Marana / Banca: Evandro Luís Linhari Rodrigues / Resumo: Nos últimos anos, a segurança tornou-se uma preocupação constante da grande maioria das pessoas. Os sistemas biométricos vem ganhando destaque em soluções ligadas à segurança, uma vez que tratam de características físicas e comportamentais para reconhecimento dos indivíduos e permissões de acesso. Este trabalho objetivou a proposição e implementação de um método para reconhecimento de indivíduos por meio de características contidas na região interna da íris com um alto percentual de exatidão no reconhecimento e uma grande diminuição no tempo de processamento, se comparado aos demais métodos encontrados na literatura. No método proposto foram utilizados operadores de morfologia matemática para localização da íris, wavelet de log-Gabor para extração das características e a distância de Hamming para o reconhecimento. Os resultados experimentais obtidos utilizando a base de dados CASIA mostraram que o método é confiável e seguro, além de se destacar com relação ao baixo custo computacional / Abstract: In the recent years, the security became a constant concern of most people. Biometric systems have been highlighted in solutions related to security, since they deal with physical and behavioral characteristics for individuals recognition and access permissions. This work aims at the implementation of a method for individuals recognition based on the characteristics of the inner region of the iris, seeking a high percentage of accuracy in the recognition and a great reduction in the processing time, as compared to other methods published so far. We use mathematical morphology to search the iris in the image, the log-Gabor wavelet for feature extraction and the Hamming distance for recognition. The experimental results obtained from CASIA database show that the method is safe and reliable, and stand out with regard to the low computational cost / Mestre
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Estudo comparativo da transformada wavelet no reconhecimento de padrões da íris humana / A comparative study of wavelet transform in human iris pattern recognition

Célio Ricardo Castelano 21 September 2006 (has links)
Neste trabalho é apresentado um método para reconhecimento de seres humanos através da textura da íris. A imagem do olho é processada através da análise do gradiente, com uma técnica de dispersão aleatória de sementes. Um vetor de características é extraído para cada íris, baseado na análise dos componentes wavelet em diversos níveis de decomposição. Para se mensurar as distâncias entre esses vetores foi utilizado o cálculo da distância Euclidiana, gerando-se curvas recall x precision para se medir a eficiência do método desenvolvido. Os resultados obtidos com algumas famílias wavelets demonstraram que o método proposto é capaz de realizar o reconhecimento humano através da íris com uma precisão eficiente. / This work presents a method for recognition of human beings by iris texture. The image of the eye is processed through gradient analysis, based on a random dispersion of seeds. So, it is extracted a feature vector for each iris based on wavelet transform in some levels of decomposition. To estimate the distances between these vectors it was used the Euclidean distance, and recall x precision curves are generated to measure the efficiency of the developed method. The results gotten with some wavelets families had demonstrated that the proposed methodology is capable to do human recognition through the iris with an efficient precision.
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Uma proposta para melhoria na efluencia de um sistema de reconhecimento de Iris Humana / A new proposal for improvement in the iris recognition system

Larico Chavez, Roger Fredy 28 February 2007 (has links)
Orientador: Yuzo Iano / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T15:45:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LaricoChavez_RogerFredy_M.pdf: 5399459 bytes, checksum: 98e285b0ab78aa02b5bde3944dc7d9d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: A biometria tem sido utilizada amplamente em segurança de sistemas automatizados. Neste trabalho propõe-se um sistema de reconhecimento pessoal baseado na biometria de íris. Essa escolha baseia-se no fato de que a íris fornece uma das melhores formas de biometria, atualmente. Tem-se como objetivo, estudar e melhorar os métodos existentes visando uma diminuição no tempo de processamento, na quantidade de memória requerida bem como na porcentagem de erros. A pesquisa mostra que o bloco mais lento corresponde ao da localização. O bloco que insere mais erros no processo de reconhecimento é o da captura de dados, isso porque a coleta de informações é feita por um dispositivo (câmera) em um ambiente onde muitos fatores transformam-se em fontes de erros. Os algoritmos de reconhecimento estudados visam uma percentagem de erro mínimo. Para o desenvolvimento de um algoritmo rápido visando o reconhecimento de íris, é necessária uma localização adequada da imagem, com pouca perda de informação. Neste trabalho, também se apresenta um algoritmo detalhado de localização rápida da textura da íris. Para isso, se utiliza um esquema de busca iterativa de centros e raios de círculos concêntricos bem como a aplicação de ruído gaussiano e a utilização de filtros medianos para se conseguir uma resposta confiável. Os resultados encontrados são comparados com algoritmos publicados na literatura e exaustivamente testados. O algoritmo proposto apresenta desempenho superior em comparação com outros em relação à velocidade de processamento assim como um incremento na exatidão de reconhecimento / Abstract: The biometric has been widely used in automated security systems. In this work we propose a biometrics personal identification system based on iris, due to its better biometrics parameters results. The purpose of this study is to improve existing methods aiming to decrease the processing time, the required storage memory and the error rate. Our research shows that the slowest operation is the segmentation of iris. Also, the block that adds more errors in the recognition process is the data capture, due to the fact it is made by a device (camera) in such environment that many factors can become source of errors. The studied recognition algorithms search for a minimum error percentage. In order to develop a fast algorithm for iris recognition we need a fine segmentation image, with a low loss of information. In this work, we also present a detailed algorithm for the fast segmentation of iris texture that was achieved using an iterative search for centers and radius of concentric circles, as well as the application of Gaussian noise and the utilization of median filters to get reliable results. The achieved results are evaluated and compared to the published algorithms. The algorithm presents a better performance with relation to processing speed as well as an improvement of the recognition precision / Mestrado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica
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Fusion techniques for iris recognition in degraded sequences / Techniques de fusion pour la reconnaissance de personne par l’iris dans des séquences dégradées

Othman, Nadia 11 March 2016 (has links)
Parmi les diverses modalités biométriques qui permettent l'identification des personnes, l'iris est considéré comme très fiable, avec un taux d'erreur remarquablement faible. Toutefois, ce niveau élevé de performances est obtenu en contrôlant la qualité des images acquises et en imposant de fortes contraintes à la personne (être statique et à proximité de la caméra). Cependant, dans de nombreuses applications de sécurité comme les contrôles d'accès, ces contraintes ne sont plus adaptées. Les images résultantes souffrent alors de diverses dégradations (manque de résolution, artefacts...) qui affectent négativement les taux de reconnaissance. Pour contourner ce problème, il est possible d’exploiter la redondance de l’information découlant de la disponibilité de plusieurs images du même œil dans la séquence enregistrée. Cette thèse se concentre sur la façon de fusionner ces informations, afin d'améliorer les performances. Dans la littérature, diverses méthodes de fusion ont été proposées. Cependant, elles s’accordent sur le fait que la qualité des images utilisées dans la fusion est un facteur crucial pour sa réussite. Plusieurs facteurs de qualité doivent être pris en considération et différentes méthodes ont été proposées pour les quantifier. Ces mesures de qualité sont généralement combinées pour obtenir une valeur unique et globale. Cependant, il n'existe pas de méthode de combinaison universelle et des connaissances a priori doivent être utilisées, ce qui rend le problème non trivial. Pour faire face à ces limites, nous proposons une nouvelle manière de mesurer et d'intégrer des mesures de qualité dans un schéma de fusion d'images, basé sur une approche de super-résolution. Cette stratégie permet de remédier à deux problèmes courants en reconnaissance par l'iris: le manque de résolution et la présence d’artefacts dans les images d'iris. La première partie de la thèse consiste en l’élaboration d’une mesure de qualité pertinente pour quantifier la qualité d’image d’iris. Elle repose sur une mesure statistique locale de la texture de l’iris grâce à un modèle de mélange de Gaussienne. L'intérêt de notre mesure est 1) sa simplicité, 2) son calcul ne nécessite pas d'identifier a priori les types de dégradations, 3) son unicité, évitant ainsi l’estimation de plusieurs facteurs de qualité et un schéma de combinaison associé et 4) sa capacité à prendre en compte la qualité intrinsèque des images mais aussi, et surtout, les défauts liés à une mauvaise segmentation de la zone d’iris. Dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, nous proposons de nouvelles approches de fusion basées sur des mesures de qualité. Tout d’abord, notre métrique est utilisée comme une mesure de qualité globale de deux façons différentes: 1) comme outil de sélection pour détecter les meilleures images de la séquence et 2) comme facteur de pondération au niveau pixel dans le schéma de super-résolution pour donner plus d'importance aux images de bonnes qualités. Puis, profitant du caractère local de notre mesure de qualité, nous proposons un schéma de fusion original basé sur une pondération locale au niveau pixel, permettant ainsi de prendre en compte le fait que les dégradations peuvent varier d’une sous partie à une autre. Ainsi, les zones de bonne qualité contribueront davantage à la reconstruction de l'image fusionnée que les zones présentant des artéfacts. Par conséquent, l'image résultante sera de meilleure qualité et pourra donc permettre d'assurer de meilleures performances en reconnaissance. L'efficacité des approches proposées est démontrée sur plusieurs bases de données couramment utilisées: MBGC, Casia-Iris-Thousand et QFIRE à trois distances différentes. Nous étudions séparément l'amélioration apportée par la super-résolution, la qualité globale, puis locale dans le processus de fusion. Les résultats montrent une amélioration importante apportée par l'utilisation de la qualité globale, amélioration qui est encore augmentée en utilisant la qualité locale / Among the large number of biometric modalities, iris is considered as a very reliable biometrics with a remarkably low error rate. The excellent performance of iris recognition systems are obtained by controlling the quality of the captured images and by imposing certain constraints on users, such as standing at a close fixed distance from the camera. However, in many real-world applications such as control access and airport boarding these constraints are no longer suitable. In such non ideal conditions, the resulting iris images suffer from diverse degradations which have a negative impact on the recognition rate. One way to try to circumvent this bad situation is to use some redundancy arising from the availability of several images of the same eye in the recorded sequence. Therefore, this thesis focuses on how to fuse the information available in the sequence in order to improve the performance. In the literature, diverse schemes of fusion have been proposed. However, they agree on the fact that the quality of the used images in the fusion process is an important factor for its success in increasing the recognition rate. Therefore, researchers concentrated their efforts in the estimation of image quality to weight each image in the fusion process according to its quality. There are various iris quality factors to be considered and diverse methods have been proposed for quantifying these criteria. These quality measures are generally combined to one unique value: a global quality. However, there is no universal combination scheme to do so and some a priori knowledge has to be inserted, which is not a trivial task. To deal with these drawbacks, in this thesis we propose of a novel way of measuring and integrating quality measures in a super-resolution approach, aiming at improving the performance. This strategy can handle two types of issues for iris recognition: the lack of resolution and the presence of various artifacts in the captured iris images. The first part of the doctoral work consists in elaborating a relevant quality metric able to quantify locally the quality of the iris images. Our measure relies on a Gaussian Mixture Model estimation of clean iris texture distribution. The interest of our quality measure is 1) its simplicity, 2) its computation does not require identifying in advance the type of degradations that can occur in the iris image, 3) its uniqueness, avoiding thus the computation of several quality metrics and associated combination rule and 4) its ability to measure the intrinsic quality and to specially detect segmentation errors. In the second part of the thesis, we propose two novel quality-based fusion schemes. Firstly, we suggest using our quality metric as a global measure in the fusion process in two ways: as a selection tool for detecting the best images and as a weighting factor at the pixel-level in the super-resolution scheme. In the last case, the contribution of each image of the sequence in final fused image will only depend on its overall quality. Secondly, taking advantage of the localness of our quality measure, we propose an original fusion scheme based on a local weighting at the pixel-level, allowing us to take into account the fact that degradations can be different in diverse parts of the iris image. This means that regions free from occlusions will contribute more in the image reconstruction than regions with artefacts. Thus, the quality of the fused image will be optimized in order to improve the performance. The effectiveness of the proposed approaches is shown on several databases commonly used: MBGC, Casia-Iris-Thousand and QFIRE at three different distances: 5, 7 and 11 feet. We separately investigate the improvement brought by the super-resolution, the global quality and the local quality in the fusion process. In particular, the results show the important improvement brought by the use of the global quality, improvement that is even increased using the local quality
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Určení a vizualizace souřadného systému rohovky během implantace čočky / Identification and visualization of the coordinate system of the cornea during lens implantation

Hudec, Jiří January 2015 (has links)
The dissertation describes the method of inserting polar-axis system into the video recording of cataract operation at the Geminy Eye Surgery, Zlin. At the theoretical part, it discusses requirements for inserting the polar-axis system including elimination of eye rotary movements captured by slit lamp. Then the emphasis is also on the speed of data processing. The practical part of the dissertation, focuses on the creating the method for detection of centers at the slit lamp picture, as well as video sequence and a method that eliminates potential eye rotation. For designing the program solution, following methods were used: Otsu method, Hough transformation method, method of two vertical projections, and crosscorrelation method. In total, the program solution was tested and analyzed in Matlab program on anonymous data set of 22 eyes.

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