Iris Style Transfer: Enhancing Iris Recognition with Style Features and Privacy Preservation through Neural Style Transfer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04707v2
• Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:29:04 GMT
• Title: Iris Style Transfer: Enhancing Iris Recognition with Style Features and Privacy Preservation through Neural Style Transfer
• Authors: Mengdi Wang, Efe Bozkir, Enkelejda Kasneci,
• Abstract summary: Iris texture is widely regarded as a gold standard biometric modality for authentication and identification.<n>We propose using neural style transfer to obfuscate the identifiable iris style features.<n>This work opens new avenues for iris-oriented, secure, and privacy-aware biometric systems.
• Score: 44.44776028287441
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Iris texture is widely regarded as a gold standard biometric modality for authentication and identification. The demand for robust iris recognition methods, coupled with growing security and privacy concerns regarding iris attacks, has escalated recently. Inspired by neural style transfer, an advanced technique that leverages neural networks to separate content and style features, we hypothesize that iris texture's style features provide a reliable foundation for recognition and are more resilient to variations like rotation and perspective shifts than traditional approaches. Our experimental results support this hypothesis, showing a significantly higher classification accuracy compared to conventional features. Further, we propose using neural style transfer to obfuscate the identifiable iris style features, ensuring the protection of sensitive biometric information while maintaining the utility of eye images for tasks like eye segmentation and gaze estimation. This work opens new avenues for iris-oriented, secure, and privacy-aware biometric systems.

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