Cancelable Iris Recognition System with Pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks

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1 Department of nuclear safety and radiological emergencies NCRRT, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA) Egypt

2 Mathematics and Computer Science Department Faculty of Science, Menoufia University Egypt

3 Computer Science & Engineering Dept. Faculty of Eletronic Engineering, Menoufia University Egypt

4 Electronics & Communication Dept. Faculty of Eletronic Engineering, Menoufia University Egypt

Abstract

Iris recognition is one of the automated processes of verifying individuals’ identity based on their iris characteristics. Apparently, the random nature of the iris texture, which is unique for each individual, makes it an exclusive trait for biometric recognition even for the case of identical twins’ authentication. Recently, the improvement in deep learning and computer vision indicated that the extracted features using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are suitable to describe the complex image patterns. But, how to protect the biometric data and provide users’ privacy is a main concern, nowadays. In this paper, we study the performance of pre-trained CNNs to successfully classify cancelable iris features when taking the feature vector from each fully connected layer. We show that these pre-trained CNNs, while originally learned for classifying generic objects, are also extremely good for representing iris images for recognition. The performance metrics are evaluated on three datasets: CASIA-IrisV3, IITD and Palacky iris databases. The obtained results achieve promising cancelable iris recognition and also ensure the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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Menoufia Journal of Electronic Engineering Research
Volume 28, ICEEM2019-Special Issue
ICEEM2019-Special Issue: 1st International Conference on Electronic Eng., Faculty of Electronic Eng., Menouf, Egypt, 7-8 Dec.
2019
Pages 95-101

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