Custom Design of JPEG Quantisation Tables for Compressing Iris Polar Images to Improve Recognition Accuracy

Custom JPEG quantisation matrices are proposed to be used in the context of compressing iris polar images within iris recognition. These matrices are obtained by employing a Genetic algorithm for the corresponding optimisation. Superior matching results in iris recognition in terms of average Hamming distance and improved ROC are found as compared to the use of the default JPEG quantisation table.