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Deep Neural Network and Data Augmentation Methodology for off-axis iris segmentation in wearable headsets

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019-03-04 v1

Abstract

A data augmentation methodology is presented and applied to generate a large dataset of off-axis iris regions and train a low-complexity deep neural network. Although of low complexity the resulting network achieves a high level of accuracy in iris region segmentation for challenging off-axis eye-patches. Interestingly, this network is also shown to achieve high levels of performance for regular, frontal, segmentation of iris regions, comparing favorably with state-of-the-art techniques of significantly higher complexity. Due to its lower complexity, this network is well suited for deployment in embedded applications such as augmented and mixed reality headsets.

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@article{arxiv.1903.00389,
  title  = {Deep Neural Network and Data Augmentation Methodology for off-axis iris segmentation in wearable headsets},
  author = {Viktor Varkarakis and Shabab Bazrafkan and Peter Corcoran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.00389},
  year   = {2019}
}
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