Local descriptors fusion for mobile iris verification

Abstract

This paper summarizes the proposal submitted by the joint team conformed by researchers from UPV and ULPGC to the Mobile Iris CHallenge Evaluation II. The approach makes use of a state-of-the-art iris segmentation technique, to later extract features making use of local descriptors. Those suitable to the problem are selected after evaluating a collection of 15 local descriptors, covering a range of different grid configuration setups. A Machine Learning approach is used, learning a supervised classifier to deal with the descriptors data. A classifier is obtained for each descriptor, and the best ones are combined in a multi-classifier system. The final step fuses the classifier outputs obtained for 5 different local descriptors, to compute the dissimilarity measure for a pair of iris images.