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Seeking pupil circumference by the Hough transformation for the boundaries of the connectivity components

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A method to determine the pupil boundaries in the eye image was proposed. It relies on the image binarization and subsequent search of the pupil as one of the connectivity components. The pupil boundary is determined as the boundary or part of the boundary of the connectivity component. The Hough transformation was used to separate the pupil if it was united with other objects into one connectivity component, as well as to verify the solution for plausibility.

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    I. A. Matveev & V. I. Tsurkov

  2. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia

    N. N. Chinaev

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Original Russian Text © I.A. Matveev, V.I. Tsurkov, N.N. Chinaev, 2015, published in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, 2015, No. 11, pp. 104–117.

This paper was recommended for publication by A.A. Lazarev, a member of the Editorial Board

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Matveev, I.A., Tsurkov, V.I. & Chinaev, N.N. Seeking pupil circumference by the Hough transformation for the boundaries of the connectivity components. Autom Remote Control 76, 1988–1999 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0005117915110089

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