Multiresolution Independent Component Analysis for Iris Identification

In this paper, the new method to extract the features of iris signals is proposed; Multiresolution ICA (M-ICA) provides good properties to represent signals with time-frequency. The conventional methods were to use the technique of filter bank analysis, while ICA is unsupervised learning algorithm using high-order statistics. M-ICA could make use of strengths of learn- ing method and multiresolution. Also, we performed comparative studies of different feature extraction techniques applied to personal identification using iris pat- tern. To measure goodness of methods, we use Fisher’s discriminant ratio to quantify the class-separability of features generated by various techniques.