[The iris] consists of pectinate ligaments adhering into a tangled mesh revealing striations, ciliary processes, crypts, rings, furrows, a corona, sometimes freckles, vasculature, and other features.

John Daugman, in Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society (Jain et al.), 1999.

Lecture Materials

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Additional Exercises

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Datasets

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Software

Kevin W. Bowyer and Mark J. Burge (Eds.), Handbook of Iris Recognition, Springer, 2016.

Additional References

Kien Nguyen, Hugo Proença, and Fernando Alonso-Fernandez, Deep Learning for Iris Recognition: A Survey, ACM Computing Surveys 56(9), 2024, pp. 1-35.