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Is There Any Similarity Between a Person's Left and Right Retina?

BISWAS, S.; ROHDIN, J.; MŇUK, T.; DRAHANSKÝ, M. Is There Any Similarity Between a Person's Left and Right Retina?. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group. Lecture Notes in Informatics. Darmstadt: GI - Group for computer science, 2019. p. 71-82. ISBN: 978-3-88579-690-9.
Czech title
Existuje nějaká podobnost mezi levým a pravým okem osoby
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Authors
Biswas Sangeeta, Ph.D. (UITS)
Rohdin Johan Andréas, M.Sc., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Mňuk Tomáš (FIT)
Drahanský Martin, prof. Ing., Ph.D.
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Keywords

eye retina, similarity, cardiovascular system

Abstract

It is often argued among biometric researchers that the left and right retinas of the same person are as different as the retinas of two different persons. In this paper we investigate to what extent this is true. We perform experiments where human volunteers are asked to judge whether a pair of the left and right retinal images displayed side-by-side belongs to the same person or two different persons. We also use two similarity measurements, structural similarity (SSIM) and cosine similarity, to do the investigation process automatically. Our experiments show that there is recognizable similarity in the left and right retina of a person. For a verification task done by human volunteers, the average accuracy was 82%. For identification tasks, automatic systems using cosine similarity were correct in up to 57%.

Published
2019
Pages
71–82
Proceedings
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group
Series
Lecture Notes in Informatics
ISBN
978-3-88579-690-9
Publisher
GI - Group for computer science
Place
Darmstadt
UT WoS
000682778500019
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@inproceedings{BUT159989,
  author="Sangeeta {Biswas} and Johan Andréas {Rohdin} and Tomáš {Mňuk} and Martin {Drahanský}",
  title="Is There Any Similarity Between a Person's Left and Right Retina?",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group",
  year="2019",
  series="Lecture Notes in Informatics",
  pages="71--82",
  publisher="GI - Group for computer science",
  address="Darmstadt",
  isbn="978-3-88579-690-9",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8897270"
}
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