A Survey of Super-Resolution in Iris Biometrics with Evaluation of Dictionary-Learning

03/27/2022
by   F. Alonso-Fernandez, et al.
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The lack of resolution has a negative impact on the performance of image-based biometrics. While many generic super-resolution methods have been proposed to restore low-resolution images, they usually aim to enhance their visual appearance. However, a visual enhancement of biometric images does not necessarily correlate with a better recognition performance. Reconstruction approaches need thus to incorporate specific information from the target biometric modality to effectively improve recognition. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of iris super-resolution approaches proposed in the literature. We have also adapted an Eigen-patches reconstruction method based on PCA Eigen-transformation of local image patches. The structure of the iris is exploited by building a patch-position dependent dictionary. In addition, image patches are restored separately, having their own reconstruction weights. This allows the solution to be locally optimized, helping to preserve local information. To evaluate the algorithm, we degraded high-resolution images from the CASIA Interval V3 database. Different restorations were considered, with 15x15 pixels being the smallest resolution. To the best of our knowledge, this is among the smallest resolutions employed in the literature. The framework is complemented with six public iris comparators, which were used to carry out biometric verification and identification experiments. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly outperforms both bilinear and bicubic interpolation at very low-resolution. The performance of a number of comparators attains an impressive Equal Error Rate as low as 5 accuracy of 77-84 results clearly demonstrate the benefit of using trained super-resolution techniques to improve the quality of iris images prior to matching.

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