This book provides an overview of scientific fundamentals and principles of iris and periocular biometric recognition. It covers: an introduction to iris and periocular recognition; a selective overview of issues and challenges; soft biometric classification; security aspects; privacy protection and forensics; and future trends.

• Part I: Introduction to iris and periocular recognition
  
  
  • Chapter 1: Fundamentals of iris biometric recognition
  
  
  • Chapter 2: An overview of periocular biometrics
  
  
  
  
  
• Part II: Issues and challenges
  
  
  • Chapter 3: Robust iris image segmentation
  
  
  • Chapter 4: Iris image quality metrics with veto power and nonlinear importance tailoring
  
  
  • Chapter 5: Iris biometric indexing
  
  
  • Chapter 6: Identifying the best periocular region for biometric recognition
  
  
  • Chapter 7: Light field cameras for presentation attack resistant robust biometric ocular system
  
  
  
  
  
• Part III: Soft biometric classification
  
  
  • Chapter 8: Gender classification from near infrared iris images
  
  
  • Chapter 9: Periocular-based soft biometric classification
  
  
  • Chapter 10: Age predictive biometrics: predicting age from iris characteristics
  
  
  
  
  
• Part IV: Security aspects
  
  
  • Chapter 11: Presentation attack detection in iris recognition
  
  
  • Chapter 12: Contact lens detection in iris images
  
  
  • Chapter 13: Software attacks on iris recognition systems
  
  
  
  
  
• Part V: Privacy protection and forensics
  
  
  • Chapter 14: Iris biometric template protection
  
  
  • Chapter 15: Privacy-preserving distance computation for IrisCodes
  
  
  • Chapter 16: Identifying iris sensors from iris images
  
  
  • Chapter 17: Matching iris images against face images using a joint dictionary-based sparse representation scheme
  
  
  
  
  
• Part VI: Future trends
  
  
  • Chapter 18: Iris biometrics for embedded systems
  
  
  • Chapter 19: Mobile iris recognition
  
  
  • Chapter 20: Future trends in iris recognition: an industry perspective