A Benchmark for Iris Location and a Deep Learning Detector Evaluation
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The iris is considered as the biometric trait with the highest unique probability. The iris location is an important task for biometrics systems, affecting directly the results obtained in specific applications such as iris recognition, spoofing and contact lenses detection, among others. This work defines the iris location problem as the delimitation of a smallest squared window that encompass the iris region. In order to build a benchmark for iris location we annotate (iris squared bounding boxes) four databases from different biometric applications and make them publicly available to the community. Besides these 4 annotated databases, we include other 2 from the literature, and we perform experiments on these six databases, five obtained with near infra-red sensors and one with visible light sensor. We compare the classical and outstanding Daugman iris location approach with two window based detectors: 1) a sliding window detector based on features from Histogram of Gradients (HoG) and a linear Support Vector Machines classifier; 2) a Deep Learning based detector fine-tuned from YOLO object detector. Experimental results showed that the Deep Learning based detector outperforms the other ones in terms of accuracy and runtime (GPUs version) and should be chosen whenever possible.
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