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iris recognition

Distinguishing the identity of people by their irises. A human iris has a unique color and pattern and can be used as a reliable identifier when illuminated with near infrared light. See facial recognition and biometrics.


The Iris
The iris is the diaphragm-like center of the eye behind the cornea and in front of the lens. Typically colored blue, green or brown, the iris opens to let light through the lens to the optic nerve.
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The "Iris Recognition Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2019-2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The detected boundaries are estimated by circular or elliptic models in the most of the iris recognition systems.
Boddeti and Kumar (2010) investigated the use of wave front-coded imagery for iris recognition. Daugman (2003) used a multi-scale quadrature approach to extract the texture phase structure information of the iris to produce 2,048-bit (256 bytes) iris code and used Hamming distance for matching.
Moreover, earlier this year, NEC's iris recognition was named the world's most accurate by the U.S.
27 ( ANI ): Japan's NEC Corporation on Friday announced that its iris recognition technology achieved the highest matching accuracy evaluation in the recent Iris Exchange (IREX,) IX evaluations of automated iris recognition algorithms performed by the U.S.
"Iris recognition is most reliable form of biometric identification, and the Access500e turns what used to be a slow process for travellers into a convenient, quick and more secure experience."
The smart tunnel system uses facial and Iris recognition technology.
CUSTOMERS CAN ACCESS MOBILE BANKING BY LOOKING AT THEIR PHONES TSB is set to introduce iris recognition to its mobile banking app from September.
Carlos Abarca, TSB's chief information officer, says: "Iris recognition allows you to unlock your TSB mobile app with a simple glance, meaning all of those IDs, passwords and memorable information become a thing of the past."
CUSTOMERS CAN ACCESS MOBILE BANKING BY LOOKING AT PHONE TSB is set to introduce iris recognition to its mobile banking app from September.
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