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Super-Resolution Construction of IRIS Images from a Visual Low Resolution Face Video

Research Abstract
Iris became an important biometric in the last decade, due to its uniqueness and richness of features. In this paper, a novel super-resolution and image registration technique for visual (non-infra-red) iris images is presented. In the proposed technique a full face, 3 second long, 90 frames, visual video is captured with a digital camera located 3 feet away from each subject. Iris images are segmented from the full face image. A cross correlation model is applied for the registration/ alignment of full gray scale iris images. A high resolution iris image, that is 4 times higher in terms of size and resolution, is constructed from every 9 low resolution images. This process of building a high resolution image is based on an auto_regressive signature model between consecutive low resolution images in filling the sub pixels in the constructed high resolution image. Then this process is iterated until a 16 times higher resolution iris image is constructed. Illustrative images are shown that prove the effectiveness of the proposed technique.
Research Authors
G. Fahmy
Research Department
Research Journal
IEEE International Conference for Signal Processing and its applications, ISSPA 2007, WB-P4-4, Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 2007
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Research Rank
3
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Research Year
2007