This thesis presents the implementation of a model that can extract scleral vasculature from image data – a biometric feature which can be used in iris-based biometric recognition systems to enhance robustness and accuracy. The model consists of two stages. The first stage is used for extraction of the region of interest – the sclera, from which then the next stage segments the vascular structure. We justify our design with two experiments. In the first one, we show the impact of prior extraction of the region of interest on the final output. In the second one, we present the difference in segmentation quality between binary and multi-class versions of sclera segmentation.
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