SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND EMPLOYING SHORT LENGTH IRIS CODES

摘要

A system and method for generating compact iris representations based on a database (502) of iris images includes providing full-length iris codes (504) for iris images in a database, where the full-length iris code includes a plurality of portions corresponding to circumferential rings in an associated iris image. Genuine and imposter score distributions are computed using a processor (512) for the full-length iris codes, and code portions (514) are identified that have a contribution that provides separation between imposter and genuine distributions relative to a threshold. A correlation between remaining code portions is measured. A subset of code portions having low correlations within the subset is generated to produce a compact iris representation.