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Pattern Recognition Letters 33 (2012) 984–990 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Pattern Recognition Letters journal homepage: www.else /locate/patrec A fusion approach to unconstrained iris recognition Gil Santos a,⇑, Edmundo Hoyle b a Department of Computer Science, IT – Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal b Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: As biometrics has evolved, the iris has remained a preferred trait because its uniqueness, lifetime stability Available online 7 September 2011 and regular shape contribute to good segmentation and recognition performance. However, commer- cially deployed systems are characterized by strong acquisition constraints based on active subject coop- Keywords: eration, which is not always achievable or even reasonable for extensive deployment in everyday Nonideal iris images scenarios. Research on new techniques has been focused on lowering these constraints without signifi- Iris recognition cantly impacting performance while increasing system usability, and new approaches have rapidly Unconstrained biometrics emerged. Here we propose a novel fusion of different recognition approaches and describe how it can Decision fusion