Retinal Image Analysis for Biometrics

TLDR: A design of retinal image analysis using feature detection and feature matching techniques is proposed and it is shown that the main limitation of this process lies in the image acquisition.

Abstract: A design of retinal image analysis using feature detection and feature matching techniques is proposed. Biometric systems perform person's authentication based on one’s physical features. A number of biometric systems has been developed in the last few years such as fingerprints, iris etc. The retinal scans serves the biometric based security systems since the unique pattern of blood vessels serves the purpose. The retinal images are acquired from the DRIVE and STARE database and various feature detection algorithms are used to detect and extract features. The original image is recovered from the distorted image using MSAC algorithm and the extracted features are then compared and feature matching is done to identify the amount of matching to identify and authorize the person. The main limitation of this process lies in the image acquisition. Hence retinal image database is used as the source of