Iris recognition is one of the most reliable biometric
technologies. In order to improve the accuracy of iris recognition
systems, and according to the variations in iris data, due to
noises of the eyelids and eyelashes or inappropriate image
acquisition environment, multiple iris images per person are
enrolled. Therefore, these systems suffer from storage and computational
overheads. This paper
... [Show full abstract] presents a new technique for
generating a reliable reference iris image per person rather than
maintaining multiple images. The proposed technique enhances
the performance of iris recognition systems regardless of the
feature extraction method in use. Moreover, it has the advantage
of reducing the amount of data storage, computational complexity
and the matching time. The achieved results assure that our
proposed approach results in very high recognition rate as well
as it decreases the matching threshold,