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Developing Iris Recognition System for Smartphone Security

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Smartphones have become an important way to store sensitive information; therefore, users’ privacy needs to be highly protected. This can be done by using the most reliable and accurate biometric identification system available today: iris recognition. This paper develops and tests an iris recognition system for smartphones. The system uses eye images that rely on visible wavelength; these images are acquired by the smartphone built-in camera. The development of the system passes through four main phases: the first phase is the iris segmentation phase, which is done in three steps to detect the iris region from the captured image, which contains the eye and part of the face using Haar Cascade Classifier training, pupil localization, and iris localization using a Circular Hough Transform. In the second phase, the system applies normalization using a Rubber Sheet model, which converts the iris image to a fixed size pattern. In the third phase, unique features are extracted from that pattern using a Deep Sparse Filtering algorithm. Finally, in the matching phase, seven different matching techniques are investigated to decide the most appropriate one the system will use to verify the user. Two types of testing are conducted: Offline and Online tests. The BIPLab database and a collected dataset are used to measure the accuracy of the system phases and to calculate the Equal Error Rate (EER) for the whole system. The average EER is 0.18 for the BIPLab database and 0.26 for the collected dataset.

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Acknowledgments

This work was funded by the deanship of scientific research (DSR), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, under grant No. (611-97-D1435). The authors therefore, acknowledge with thanks DSR technical and financial support. Thanks also goes to the research laboratory at the University of Salerno, Italy for letting us use their BIPLab database [6], which helped us to complete this work and test it properly. The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions to improve the quality of the paper. The authors are also grateful for all volunteers who contributed to collect our dataset and participated in the online test.

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    Lamiaa A. Elrefaei, Doaa H. Hamid, Afnan A. Bayazed, Sara S. Bushnak & Shaikhah Y. Maasher

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Elrefaei, L.A., Hamid, D.H., Bayazed, A.A. et al. Developing Iris Recognition System for Smartphone Security. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 14579–14603 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-5049-3

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