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Is There Any Similarity Between a Person's Left and Right Retina?
Rohdin Johan Andréas, M.Sc., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Mňuk Tomáš
Drahanský Martin, prof. Ing., Ph.D.
eye retina, similarity, cardiovascular system
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%.
@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"
}