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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Lowering the Barrier to IREX Participation: Open-Source Algorithms, Toolkit, and Benchmarking for Iris Recognition

Siamul Karim Khan, Patrick J. Flynn, Adam Czajka

NIST Iris Exchange (IREX) offers an appealing solution to evaluating new open-source iris recognition algorithms, but it presents high barriers to entry because these algorithms mu…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Mortality: Advancements in Post-Mortem Iris Recognition through Data Collection and Computer-Aided Forensic Examination

Rasel Ahmed Bhuiyan, Parisa Farmanifard, Renu Sharma +7

Post-mortem iris recognition brings both hope to the forensic community (a short-term but accurate and fast means of verifying identity) as well as concerns to society (its potenti…

cs.CV2026

Restricted Receptive Fields for Face Verification

Kagan Ozturk, Aman Bhatta, Haiyu Wu +2

Understanding how deep neural networks make decisions is crucial for analyzing their behavior and diagnosing failure cases. In computer vision, a common approach to improve interpr…

cs.CV2025

EyePreserve: Identity-Preserving Iris Synthesis

Siamul Karim Khan, Patrick Tinsley, Mahsa Mitcheff +3

Synthesis of same-identity biometric iris images, both for existing and non-existing identities, while preserving the identity across a wide range of pupil sizes, is complex due to…

cs.CV2025

Improved Ear Verification with Vision Transformers and Overlapping Patches

Deeksha Arun, Kagan Ozturk, Kevin W. Bowyer +1

Ear recognition has emerged as a promising biometric modality due to the relative stability in appearance during adulthood. Although Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been widely use…