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Wavefront Coded®;  (Wavefront Coded®;  is a registered trademark of Omni Vision CDM Optics, Inc. ) biometric iris recognition
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Wavefront CodingTM (Wavefront CodingTM is a trademark of Omni Vision CDM Optics, Inc.) is a computational imaging technique capable of increasing the depth of field of an imaging system and increasing the amount of information captured within a given imaging volume. Iris recognition consists of using the unique texture present in the human iris to perform biometric identification. The small size of the texture details compared to the subject standoff distance and normal human motion makes it challenging to capture high-quality iris images using traditional imaging techniques. The use of Wavefront Coding alleviates these requirements and shows great performance improvements by reducing the constraints in subject position while maintaining short exposure times during image capture.
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The human iris has several unique features that...
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Silveira, P.E.X., Gao, L., Narayanswamy, R. (2015). Wavefront Coding for Enhancing the Imaging Volume in Iris Recognition. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_216
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