Iris and Periocular Recognition using Deep Learning

This book systematically explains the fundamental and most advanced techniques for ocular imprint-based human identification, with many applications in sectors such as healthcare, online education, e-business, metaverse, and entertainment. This is the first-ever book devoted to iris recognition that details cutting-edge techniques using deep neural networks. This book systematically introduces such algorithmic details with attractive illustrations, examples, experimental comparisons, and security analysis. It answers many fundamental questions about the most effective iris and periocular recognition techniques.? Provides insightful algorithmic details into highly efficient and precise iris recognition using deep neural networks? Unveils a collection of previously unpublished results and in-depth explanations of advanced ocular recognition algorithms? Presents iris recognition algorithms specifically designed to bolster metaverse security, featuring specialized techniques for iris detection, segmentation, and matching? Offers illustrative examples and comparative analysis, establishing reliability and confidence in deep learning-based methods over widely used conventional methods? Provides access to the original codes and databases

Ajay Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Prior to this, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi from 2005 to 2007. Dr. Kumar serves on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IAPR and has served the IEEE Biometrics Council as its President from 2021 to 2022. His research interests include biometrics with an emphasis on iris, hand, and knuckle biometrics.