arxivcs.CV2026-07-23
Towards Robust Iris Recognition Through Occlusion Identification and Conditional Diffusion-Based Reconstruction
Kamrul Hasan, Mylene C. Q. Farias, Oleg V. Komogortsev
Iris recognition is a reliable biometric approach that identifies individuals using the distinctive and stable texture of the iris. However, recognition performance can degrade when discriminative iris texture is partially occluded by eyelids, eyelashes, specular reflections, or…