Iris detection with opencv

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How can I detect irises in a face with opencv?

It is complicated to use HoughCircles, because there are two circles with almost identical centers. Anyway, even when masking pupil out, the HoughCircles was not able to detect outer edge of the iris. — Jan, Jan 08 '17 at 10:29

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 26 '18 at 18:09

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Have a look at this forum thread. There's some source code there to get you started, but be careful about using it directly -- the original author seemed to have problems compiling it.

edited Mar 26 '18 at 18:09

Aashish Kumar

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answered Feb 17 '11 at 00:25

mpenkov

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http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/Automatic_pupil_detection.aspx http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI-plus/HumanEmotionDetection.aspx – Baran Feb 19 '11 at 08:33
@misha OpenCV link wasn't work. http://www.aishack.in/2010/04/hough-circles-in-opencv/ – Ataur Rahman Munna Apr 05 '16 at 05:50

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '11 at 23:59

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Start with detecting circles - see cvHoughCircles - hint, eyes have a series of concentric circles.

answered Feb 16 '11 at 23:59

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 01 '12 at 21:30

Quick and dirty would be making an eye detection first with Haar filter, there are good model xml files shipped with opencv 2.4.2. Then you do some skin detection (in the HSV space rather than the rgb space) to identify the area of the eye in the middle, or circle search.
Also, projections, histogram-based decisions can be used once the eye area is cropped.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 12 '12 at 18:17

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OpenCV has Face Detection module which uses Haar Cascade. You can use the same method to detect Iris. You collect some iris images and make it as positive set and non iris images as negative set. The use the Haar Training module to train it.

answered Jan 12 '12 at 18:17

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Iris detection with opencv

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