Deep-Learning Based Joint Iris and Sclera Recognition with YOLO Network for Identity Identification

By jointly consideration of the partial iris and sclera region, no sclera and iris separation calculation is needed, and both of the sclera and iris information is used at the same time, and then the identity information is enhanced to avoid being forged. By the deep learning based YOLOv2 model, the visible-light eye images are marked with the jointly partial iris and sclera region, and the identity classifier is trained to inference the correct personal identity. By using the self- made and visible-light eye image database to evaluate the system performance, the proposed deep learning based joint iris and sclera recognition reaches the mean Average Precision ( mAP) up to 99%. Besides, compared with the previous works, the proposed design is more effective without using any iris and sclera segmentation process.