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An Unsupervised Approach for Eye Sclera Segmentation

verfasst von : Daniel Riccio, Nadia Brancati, Maria Frucci, Diego Gragnaniello

Erschienen in: Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We present an unsupervised sclera segmentation method for eye color images. The proposed approach operates on a visible spectrum RGB eye image and does not require any prior knowledge such as eyelid or iris center coordinate detection. The eye color input image is enhanced by an adaptive histogram normalization to produce a gray level image in which the sclera is highlighted. A feature extraction process is involved both in the image binarization and in the computation of scores to assign to each connected components of the foreground. The binarization process is based on clustering and adaptive thresholding. Finally, the selection of foreground components identifying the sclera is performed on the analysis of the computed scores and of the positions between the foreground components. The proposed method was ranked \(2^{nd}\) in the Sclera Segmentation and Eye Recognition Benchmarking Competition (SSRBC 2017), providing satisfactory performance in terms of precision.

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Metadaten
Titel
An Unsupervised Approach for Eye Sclera Segmentation
verfasst von
Daniel Riccio
Nadia Brancati
Maria Frucci
Diego Gragnaniello
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75193-1_66

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