Improving video-based iris recognition via local quality weighted super resolution
Résumé
In this paper we address the problem of iris recognition at a distance and on the move. We introduce two novel quality measures, one computed Globally (GQ) and the other Locally (LQ), for fusing at the pixel level the frames (after a bilinear interpolation step) extracted from the video of a given person. These measures derive from a local GMM probabilistic characterization of good quality iris texture. Experiments performed on the MBGC portal database show a superiority of our approach compared to score-based or average image-based fusion methods. Moreover, we show that the LQ-based fusion outperforms the GQ-based fusion with a relative improvement of 4.79% at the Equal Error Rate functioning point